The Bronze age amber industry in northern Italy in light of high-resolution 3D imaging
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12988255 |
|---|---|
| Authors | I Angelini (0000-0002-7970-3416, corresponding author), Massimo Vidale (0000-0002-0543-6511) |
| Year | 2020 |
| Volume | 44-2 |
| Pages | 237-249 |
| Publication date | 2020-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | ArchéoSciences (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1960-1360 • E-ISSN: 2104-3728 |
| Publisher | OpenEdition (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.4000/archeosciences.8024 |
| OpenAlex | W3184951925 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 30 |
We summarize here the preliminary results of the experimental application of high-resolution 3D imaging to the study and reconstruction of the chaîne opératoire of amber bead-making in the northern Italian peninsula in the 2nd millennium BC. Amber, an unusually soft raw material that is highly sensible to any kind of physical and chemical change, records a spectrum of archaeological information that was almost unimaginable until recently. We show how the examination of manufacturing waste and finished beads using opto-digital microscope and laser scanning confocal microscope (LSCM), and considering the interactions with post-manufacturing use-wear traces, reveals unexpected evidence about the beads’ biography, emphasizing, in first place, the probable important role of the heat-treatment of amber with metal tools
Archaeology · Bronze · Confocal · Confocal laser scanning microscopy · Geography · High resolution · Metallurgy · Microscope · Nanotechnology · Optics · Physics · Engineering · Fossil Insects in Amber · Insect and Arachnid Ecology and Behavior · Materials Science · Plant and animal studies · Biomedical Engineering · Geology
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| Highly cited | No |