residues-analysis

Residues Analysis

LTFPA has a collaboration from many years with the CNR Chemistry Institute of Rome and, in particular, with Dott. Stella Nunziante Cesaro expert of MicroSpectroscopy FTIR. This collaboration is aimed to develop a functional analysis combining use-wear and FTIR analysis of residues. This project, founded by Wenner Green Foundation (NY), had as a result a free-online database (due to technical issues the database is currently offline, we are working to make it available as soon as possible) combining the data from use-wear analysis and Ftir analysis coming from chipped stone tool replicas made of flint and obsidian.

This collaboration allowed to organize an international workshop "An integration of use-wear and residues analysis for the identification of the function of archaeological stone tools” held in Rome (italy) between the 5th and the 7th of March 2012.

Publications:

Solodenko, N., Zupancich, A., Nunziante Cesaro, S., Marder, O., Lemorini, C., & Barkai, R. (2015). Fat Residue and Use-Wear Found on Acheulian Biface and Scraper Associated with Butchered Elephant Remains at the Site of Revadim, Israel. PloS One, 1–17. http://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0118572

Lemorini, C., & Nunziante Cesaro, S. (2012). An Integration of the Use-Wear and Residue Analysis for the Identification of the Function of Archaeological Stone Tools. BAR International Series (Vol. 2649).

Nunziante Cesaro, S., & Lemorini, C. (2011). The function of prehistoric lithic tools: A combined study of use-wear analysis and FTIR microspectroscopy. Spectrochimica Acta. Part A, Molecular and Biomolecular Spectroscopy, 86, 1–6.

Guest Researchers

Alice Vinet
Alice Vinet started her PhD in 2015 at the Paris 1 – Panthéon Sorbonne University in Paris. Her research focuses on the key issues of the Early Chalcolithic societies from Central Anatolia. Around 6000 BC, which correspond to the end of the Neolithic and the beginning of the Chalcolithic, important socio-economic changes took place in numerous of communities of Central Anatolia. While facing a population increase and new regional relationships, resulting from a millennium of sedentarism in western Anatolia, the villagers settled in new territories on the Anatolian plateau. Her project aims to study the cultural and economic interactions between two essential areas of the Anatolian Plateau: the Konya plain and Cappadocia. To document these interactions, she chose two contemporary sites: Çatalhöyük and Tepeçik Çiftlik. She is focusing on the obsidian industry, through a techno-functional approach. By comparing two lithic collections, she is addressing the socio-economic and cultural similarities and differences at a supra-regional scale.

https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Alice_Vinet
https://univ-paris1.academia.edu/AVinet
http://www.trajectoires.cnrs.fr/spip.php?article147
http://www.cepam.cnrs.fr/spip.php?article2444