Minerals, as raw structural materials or pigments, play a fundamental role in archaeometry,
for the understanding of nature, structure and status of an artefact or object of interest for …

Correlation of the scientific approach to the archaeological investigation and vice versa is
considered, for at least the past 30 years, as the best strategy to answer questions in cultural …

Latent class models are used in social sciences for classifying individuals or objects into
distinct groups/classes based on responses to a set of observed indicators. The latent class …

In this study a total of 114 glazed decorations of 42 ceramic floor tiles, manufactured in Sicily
from the 16th to the 21th AD, were investigated. The micro sampling method, proposed by …

Renaissance blue decorated pottery fragments from the archaeological site of Caltagirone
(Sicily, Italy) were analysed by scanning electron microscopy–energy dispersive X-ray …

Chemical, mineralogical and textural characterizations were performed on glazed pieces
prepared in laboratory as well as on faiences fragments collected from the existing remains …

The archaeometric investigation of 46 potsherds of “Torre Alemanna type” pottery aimed to
define a compositional reference group and to understand the technological characteristics …

The potential of a double pulse (DP) excitation scheme for in‐depth characterization of
ceramic samples using laser induced breakdown spectrometry (LIBS) has been …

During the last thirty years, microstructural and technological studies on ceramic glazes
have been essentially carried out through the use of Scanning Electron Microscopy (SEM) …

Abstract The Akko Tower shipwreck lies at the entrance to Akko harbour, Israel. It is
apparently the remains of a 25-m-long merchant brig, dated to the first half of the 19th …