Eramo Giacomo
Biographic Data
| ID | 633632 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Eramo Giacomo |
| GIVEN NAMES | Eramo |
| FAMILY NAME | Giacomo |
| SIGNATURE | GIACOMO E |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Bari Aldo Moro |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-9621-908X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 33 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 153 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 33 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2004 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 6 |
Geochemical Data of Maiolica Chert from Central Italy for Provenance Studies
This work provides the geochemical characterization data of Maiolica Fm chert from central Italy. The dataset presented here is part of the SiliROck Lithotheque (Sapienza, University of Rome) and includes 97 chert samples collected from the Umbria-Marche succession. The samples have been previously examined using solely non-destructive techniques: petrographic analysis using a stereomicroscope, and geochemical analysis through portable X-ray fluo…
The sound of science: A sonification learning experience in an Italian secondary school
Introduction The present article reports on a case study aimed at improving STEAM education in secondary schools. It discusses the use of sonification as a teaching strategy to integrate music into science learning, using different approaches from data audification to parameter mapping into aural models and to the rewriting of song lyrics based on STEM topics. Methods A qualitative research study has been performed in a secondary school in the sc…
Archaeological Stratification in the St. Leucio Basilica (2nd Century BCE–6th Century CE, Canosa di Puglia, Southern Italy): Archaeometric Analysis of Pebble Pavements
This paper presents the results of an archaeometric investigation of the preparatory mortars of the pebble pavements of the Basilica of St. Leucio in Canosa di Puglia (Bari, Southern Italy). The main aim of the presented study is to contribute to the dating of some portions of the pebble pavements by analyzing the preparatory layers and determining whether they pertain to the basilica (6th century CE) or to the pre-existing temple (2nd century BC…
Geochemical Data of Scaglia Bianca Chert from Central Italy for Provenance Studies
This work presents the first geochemical characterization data of Scaglia Bianca Fm chert from Central Italy. The dataset is part of the chert reference collection (SiliROck) of Sapienza, University of Rome, and includes 110 chert samples collected from Abruzzo, Latium and Umbria regions. The samples have been previously examined using solely non-destructive techniques: petrographic analysis using a stereomicroscope, and geochemical analysis thro…
Petrographic and Size Analysis of Lithic Artifacts of Loreto (Early Middle Pleistocene, Basilicata, Italy) to Support Insight on the Site Lithic Industry and Human Behavior
The Lower Paleolithic site of Loreto (Venosa Basin, Basilicata, Southern Italy), discovered in 1929 and excavated from 1956 to 1961 and from 1974 to 1981, consists of three main archaeological layers showing evidence of human occupation. The bottom layer (Layer A) is the richest and best-preserved layer, and its lithic industry includes flakes, retouched flakes, cores, and pebble tools mainly made of chert and limestone. This study involves the p…
Evidence of raw material selection in Acheulean lithic tools of Notarchirico (MIS 15, Southern Italy)
A nondestructive technological, petrographic and granulometric analysis of 75 lithic artifacts excavated by M. Piperno in the 1980s in the Early Palaeolithic site of Notarchirico (Venosa, Southern Italy) was carried out to check their compatibility with the lag deposit of layer B (MIS 15) and the hypothesis of lithological selection for knapping by hominins. A total of 289 clasts selected via a virtual grid superimposed to orthophotographs of thr…
Chert sources and territorial behaviour after the Neolithization process: An exploratory analysis from Grotta Battifratta (Rieti, Central Italy)
This paper aims at investigating lithic raw material acquisition strategies and human mobility in the Sabina region (Central Italy) during the Neolithic period through the Non-destructive Multiparametric Protocol for Chert Investigation (NM-PCI) applied to the lithic assemblage of Grotta Battifratta (Sabina region, Rieti). Despite its importance as a unique natural bridge in the middle of the Italian peninsula, Sabina has long been archaeological…
SiLiBA: Building the geological chert lithotheque
Lithotheques collect and exhibit raw material used by human communities for the manufacturing of objects during the Prehistory and represents an important tool of their knowledge. These collections are essential in the procuring and provenance study of archaeological lithic industries. This paper aims, firstly, to introduce SiLiBA, the lithotheque of the Earth and Geoenvironmental Sciences Department of the University of Bari Aldo Moro (Italy), a…
On Devotional Artworks: A Non-Invasive Characterization of Pigments of the Madonna della Croce Wall Painting in Triggiano (Bari, Southern Italy)
Devotional artworks represent a valuable form of art, as they are evidence of religious worship and the demo-ethno-anthropological, as well as historical-artistic, heritage of a community, which is why they definitely belong to the cultural identity of a geographic area. The Madonna della Croce wall painting is an example of devotional art preserved today in the homonymous church in Triggiano (Bari, Italy). The presented study concerns the charac…
A Non-Invasive and Sustainable Characterization of Pigments in Wall Paintings: A Library of Apulian Colors
This paper proposed a multianalytical, non-invasive, accessible and expensive (compared to traditional ones) approach for the characterization of pictorial surfaces. A set of 18 pigments and 37 mixtures widely used in the Middle Ages in the Apulia (Italy) artistic and archaeological contexts was considered, and corresponding replicas were produced. Pigments were first characterized by X-ray powder diffraction (XRPD), then replicas were studied by…
With Impressions Chosen from Another Time: Core Technologies and Debitage Production at the Lower Palaeolithic Site of Notarchirico (670–695 ka; layers F to I2)
The earliest evidence of bifaces in western Europe is dated to the initial phase of the Middle Pleistocene (la Noira, Notarchirico, Moulin Quignon, 700-670 ka), with the findings of Barranc de la Boella (1.0-0.9 Ma) considered to be an earlier local evolution. No transition assemblages are recorded during this time frame, and the "abrupt" appearance of bifaces during this time frame is associated with significant cognitive shifts in human technol…
A taphonomic and spatial distribution study of the new levels of the middle Pleistocene site of Notarchirico (670-695 ka, Venosa, Basilicata, Italy)
Glazed sgraffito ware from Torre Alemanna (Foggia, fifteenth to sixteenth century A.D.): Technological aspects of a local production
The archaeometric investigation of 46 potsherds of “Torre Alemanna type” pottery aimed to define a compositional reference group and to understand the technological characteristics of its production. Principal component analysis applied to bulk chemical data (XRF) of the ceramic body showed a strong compositional homogeneity. Their comparison with local clays and 6 fragments of bricks sampled from the ceramic kiln, on the one hand, revealed the u…
Chert sources and Early to Middle Neolithic exploitation in the Tavoliere (Northern Apulia, Italy)
A Multidisciplinary Approach to the Study of Early Neolithic Pyrotechnological Structures. The Case Study of Portonovo (Marche, Italy)
The introduction of agricultural practices fostered the development of specific technologies for the new subsistence practices and the production of new artefacts. Pyrotechnological structures such as ovens are part of the Neolithic equipment and accompanied the spread of agriculture from the Near East across Europe and the Mediterranean Sea. Ovens located within settlements – mainly domed, above-ground structures – have been traditionally linked…
Networking through pottery characterisation at Takarkori rock shelter (Libyan Sahara, 10,200-4650 cal BP)
Ceramic technology: How to Recognize Clay Processing
Compositional features of cherts from the Jebel Zawa mines (Dohuk, Kurdistan Region of Iraq) and implications for exploitation strategies during the Late Chalcolithic/Early Bronze Age
Distribution and compositional fingerprints of primary and secondary chert sources in Northern Apulia (Italy)
Classification of mineral inclusions in ancient ceramics: Comparing Different Modal Analysis Strategies
Development of a multiparametric characterisation protocol for chert investigation and application on the Gargano Promontory mines
Approaching the early Greek Colonization in Southern Italy: Ceramic local production and imports in the Siritis area (Basilicata)
Early Neolithic potters of the Italian Middle Adriatic region
This paper presents the preliminary results of the study of the Early Neolithic pottery production in the Marche region, Italy (VI mill. BC). The main goal of this research is to expand the knowledge of pottery manufacturing processes associated to the typical Central Adriatic Impressed Ware, at present poorly understood. All sites under analysis are located in the piedmont hills of the Apennine Mountains, except one which is on the coast. This s…
Variability and continuity of ceramic manufacturing of prehistoric pottery from Upper Nubia, Sudan: An ethnographic comparison
Raw Material and Technological Changes in Ceramic Productions at Sai Island, Northern Sudan, from the Seventh to the Third Millennium BC: Ceramic productions at Sai Island, northern Sudan
This study presents the results of integrated mineralogical, petrographic and chemical analyses of different ceramic assemblages and local sediments from Sai Island, northern Sudan, dating to between the seventh and the third millennium bc, and highlights a significant variability in the raw materials and technology of these productions. Although archaeometric analyses of ceramics are widely employed in many parts of the world, a lamentable scien…
Ceramic technology: How to Recognize Clay Processing
A taphonomic and spatial distribution study of the new levels of the middle Pleistocene site of Notarchirico (670-695 ka, Venosa, Basilicata, Italy)
Textural and Morphometric Analysis Applied to Holocene Pottery from T akarkori Rock Shelter ( SW L ibya, Central S ahara): A Quantitative Sedimentological Approach
This paper proposes the application of digital image processing of plane‐ and cross‐polarized light photomicrographs to textural and morphometric analysis as an extension of routine petrographic characterization. The aim is to answer questions on the provenance and technology of quartz‐ and calcite‐bearing potsherds from the T akarkori rock shelter ( L ibyan S ahara, from around 8900 to 4200 uncal. years bp ). Specific processing algorithms run o…
Combining image analysis and modular neural networks for classification of mineral inclusions and pores in archaeological potsherds
Development of a multiparametric characterisation protocol for chert investigation and application on the Gargano Promontory mines
Diversified production of red figured pottery in Apulia (Southern Italy) in the late period
Late Roman cooking pottery from the Tavoliere area (Southern Italy): Raw Materials and Technological Aspects
Classification of mineral inclusions in ancient ceramics: Comparing Different Modal Analysis Strategies
Raw Material and Technological Changes in Ceramic Productions at Sai Island, Northern Sudan, from the Seventh to the Third Millennium BC: Ceramic productions at Sai Island, northern Sudan
This study presents the results of integrated mineralogical, petrographic and chemical analyses of different ceramic assemblages and local sediments from Sai Island, northern Sudan, dating to between the seventh and the third millennium bc, and highlights a significant variability in the raw materials and technology of these productions. Although archaeometric analyses of ceramics are widely employed in many parts of the world, a lamentable scien…
Oil Lamps from the Catacombs of C anosa ( A pulia, Fourth to Sixth Centuries AD ): Technological Features and Typological Imitation
Fifty oil lamps from the catacombs of ‘ P onte della L ama’ ( C anosa di Puglia, second to sixth centuries ad ) were analysed to understand the correlations existing between types and fabrics and to determine their provenance. Petrographic and chemical analyses confirmed the archaeological hypothesis of local production of the oil lamps, using fluvial deposits. However, the three samples of oil lamps imitating the A frican ‘ A tlante VIII ’ are c…
Networking through pottery characterisation at Takarkori rock shelter (Libyan Sahara, 10,200-4650 cal BP)
Variability and continuity of ceramic manufacturing of prehistoric pottery from Upper Nubia, Sudan: An ethnographic comparison
The glass-melting crucibles of Derrière Sairoche (1699–1714 AD, Ct. Bern, Switzerland): A petrological approach
With Impressions Chosen from Another Time: Core Technologies and Debitage Production at the Lower Palaeolithic Site of Notarchirico (670–695 ka; layers F to I2)
The earliest evidence of bifaces in western Europe is dated to the initial phase of the Middle Pleistocene (la Noira, Notarchirico, Moulin Quignon, 700-670 ka), with the findings of Barranc de la Boella (1.0-0.9 Ma) considered to be an earlier local evolution. No transition assemblages are recorded during this time frame, and the "abrupt" appearance of bifaces during this time frame is associated with significant cognitive shifts in human technol…
Compositional features of cherts from the Jebel Zawa mines (Dohuk, Kurdistan Region of Iraq) and implications for exploitation strategies during the Late Chalcolithic/Early Bronze Age
The Melting Furnace of the Derrière Sairoche Glassworks (Court, Swiss Jura): Heat‐induced Mineralogical Transformations and Their Technological Significance
Seventy‐one oriented specimens from the pre‐industrial reverberatory melting furnace of the Derrière Sairoche glassworks (Swiss Jura) were analysed. During its period of activity (1699–1714), this glassworks produced wood‐ash glass of liquidus temperatures up to 1400°C. Textural and mineralogical features point to temperatures around 1500°C in the melting chamber. The inner structure of the furnace shows chemical contamination due to ash, molten …
Petrographic and Size Analysis of Lithic Artifacts of Loreto (Early Middle Pleistocene, Basilicata, Italy) to Support Insight on the Site Lithic Industry and Human Behavior
The Lower Paleolithic site of Loreto (Venosa Basin, Basilicata, Southern Italy), discovered in 1929 and excavated from 1956 to 1961 and from 1974 to 1981, consists of three main archaeological layers showing evidence of human occupation. The bottom layer (Layer A) is the richest and best-preserved layer, and its lithic industry includes flakes, retouched flakes, cores, and pebble tools mainly made of chert and limestone. This study involves the p…
A Non-Invasive and Sustainable Characterization of Pigments in Wall Paintings: A Library of Apulian Colors
This paper proposed a multianalytical, non-invasive, accessible and expensive (compared to traditional ones) approach for the characterization of pictorial surfaces. A set of 18 pigments and 37 mixtures widely used in the Middle Ages in the Apulia (Italy) artistic and archaeological contexts was considered, and corresponding replicas were produced. Pigments were first characterized by X-ray powder diffraction (XRPD), then replicas were studied by…
Late Roman cooking pottery from the Tavoliere area (Southern Italy): Raw Materials and Technological Aspects
The glass-melting crucibles of Derrière Sairoche (1699–1714 AD, Ct. Bern, Switzerland): A petrological approach
The Melting Furnace of the Derrière Sairoche Glassworks (Court, Swiss Jura): Heat‐induced Mineralogical Transformations and Their Technological Significance
Seventy‐one oriented specimens from the pre‐industrial reverberatory melting furnace of the Derrière Sairoche glassworks (Swiss Jura) were analysed. During its period of activity (1699–1714), this glassworks produced wood‐ash glass of liquidus temperatures up to 1400°C. Textural and mineralogical features point to temperatures around 1500°C in the melting chamber. The inner structure of the furnace shows chemical contamination due to ash, molten …
The glass-melting furnace and the crucibles of Südel (1723–1741, Switzerland): Provenance of the raw materials and new evidence of high thermal performances
Diversified production of red figured pottery in Apulia (Southern Italy) in the late period
Combining image analysis and modular neural networks for classification of mineral inclusions and pores in archaeological potsherds
Textural and Morphometric Analysis Applied to Holocene Pottery from T akarkori Rock Shelter ( SW L ibya, Central S ahara): A Quantitative Sedimentological Approach
This paper proposes the application of digital image processing of plane‐ and cross‐polarized light photomicrographs to textural and morphometric analysis as an extension of routine petrographic characterization. The aim is to answer questions on the provenance and technology of quartz‐ and calcite‐bearing potsherds from the T akarkori rock shelter ( L ibyan S ahara, from around 8900 to 4200 uncal. years bp ). Specific processing algorithms run o…
Oil Lamps from the Catacombs of C anosa ( A pulia, Fourth to Sixth Centuries AD ): Technological Features and Typological Imitation
Fifty oil lamps from the catacombs of ‘ P onte della L ama’ ( C anosa di Puglia, second to sixth centuries ad ) were analysed to understand the correlations existing between types and fabrics and to determine their provenance. Petrographic and chemical analyses confirmed the archaeological hypothesis of local production of the oil lamps, using fluvial deposits. However, the three samples of oil lamps imitating the A frican ‘ A tlante VIII ’ are c…
Raw Material and Technological Changes in Ceramic Productions at Sai Island, Northern Sudan, from the Seventh to the Third Millennium BC: Ceramic productions at Sai Island, northern Sudan
This study presents the results of integrated mineralogical, petrographic and chemical analyses of different ceramic assemblages and local sediments from Sai Island, northern Sudan, dating to between the seventh and the third millennium bc, and highlights a significant variability in the raw materials and technology of these productions. Although archaeometric analyses of ceramics are widely employed in many parts of the world, a lamentable scien…
Early Neolithic potters of the Italian Middle Adriatic region
This paper presents the preliminary results of the study of the Early Neolithic pottery production in the Marche region, Italy (VI mill. BC). The main goal of this research is to expand the knowledge of pottery manufacturing processes associated to the typical Central Adriatic Impressed Ware, at present poorly understood. All sites under analysis are located in the piedmont hills of the Apennine Mountains, except one which is on the coast. This s…
Variability and continuity of ceramic manufacturing of prehistoric pottery from Upper Nubia, Sudan: An ethnographic comparison
Approaching the early Greek Colonization in Southern Italy: Ceramic local production and imports in the Siritis area (Basilicata)
Compositional features of cherts from the Jebel Zawa mines (Dohuk, Kurdistan Region of Iraq) and implications for exploitation strategies during the Late Chalcolithic/Early Bronze Age
Distribution and compositional fingerprints of primary and secondary chert sources in Northern Apulia (Italy)
Classification of mineral inclusions in ancient ceramics: Comparing Different Modal Analysis Strategies
Development of a multiparametric characterisation protocol for chert investigation and application on the Gargano Promontory mines
Networking through pottery characterisation at Takarkori rock shelter (Libyan Sahara, 10,200-4650 cal BP)
Ceramic technology: How to Recognize Clay Processing
A Multidisciplinary Approach to the Study of Early Neolithic Pyrotechnological Structures. The Case Study of Portonovo (Marche, Italy)
The introduction of agricultural practices fostered the development of specific technologies for the new subsistence practices and the production of new artefacts. Pyrotechnological structures such as ovens are part of the Neolithic equipment and accompanied the spread of agriculture from the Near East across Europe and the Mediterranean Sea. Ovens located within settlements – mainly domed, above-ground structures – have been traditionally linked…
Glazed sgraffito ware from Torre Alemanna (Foggia, fifteenth to sixteenth century A.D.): Technological aspects of a local production
The archaeometric investigation of 46 potsherds of “Torre Alemanna type” pottery aimed to define a compositional reference group and to understand the technological characteristics of its production. Principal component analysis applied to bulk chemical data (XRF) of the ceramic body showed a strong compositional homogeneity. Their comparison with local clays and 6 fragments of bricks sampled from the ceramic kiln, on the one hand, revealed the u…
Chert sources and Early to Middle Neolithic exploitation in the Tavoliere (Northern Apulia, Italy)
SiLiBA: Building the geological chert lithotheque
Lithotheques collect and exhibit raw material used by human communities for the manufacturing of objects during the Prehistory and represents an important tool of their knowledge. These collections are essential in the procuring and provenance study of archaeological lithic industries. This paper aims, firstly, to introduce SiLiBA, the lithotheque of the Earth and Geoenvironmental Sciences Department of the University of Bari Aldo Moro (Italy), a…
On Devotional Artworks: A Non-Invasive Characterization of Pigments of the Madonna della Croce Wall Painting in Triggiano (Bari, Southern Italy)
Devotional artworks represent a valuable form of art, as they are evidence of religious worship and the demo-ethno-anthropological, as well as historical-artistic, heritage of a community, which is why they definitely belong to the cultural identity of a geographic area. The Madonna della Croce wall painting is an example of devotional art preserved today in the homonymous church in Triggiano (Bari, Italy). The presented study concerns the charac…
A Non-Invasive and Sustainable Characterization of Pigments in Wall Paintings: A Library of Apulian Colors
This paper proposed a multianalytical, non-invasive, accessible and expensive (compared to traditional ones) approach for the characterization of pictorial surfaces. A set of 18 pigments and 37 mixtures widely used in the Middle Ages in the Apulia (Italy) artistic and archaeological contexts was considered, and corresponding replicas were produced. Pigments were first characterized by X-ray powder diffraction (XRPD), then replicas were studied by…
With Impressions Chosen from Another Time: Core Technologies and Debitage Production at the Lower Palaeolithic Site of Notarchirico (670–695 ka; layers F to I2)
The earliest evidence of bifaces in western Europe is dated to the initial phase of the Middle Pleistocene (la Noira, Notarchirico, Moulin Quignon, 700-670 ka), with the findings of Barranc de la Boella (1.0-0.9 Ma) considered to be an earlier local evolution. No transition assemblages are recorded during this time frame, and the "abrupt" appearance of bifaces during this time frame is associated with significant cognitive shifts in human technol…
Geology (24 works) · Archaeology (23 works) · Geography (23 works) · Cultural Heritage Materials Analysis (17 works) · Mineralogy (13 works) · Paleontology (12 works) · Building materials and conservation (11 works) · Archaeology and ancient environmental studies (10 works) · Materials Science (10 works) · Provenance (10 works)