Proceedings of the 4th Symposium of the Hellenic Society for Archaeometry: National Hellenic Research Foundation, Athens 28-31 May 2003

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The 4th Symposium of the Hellenic Society for Archaeometry was held at the National Hellenic Research Foundation in Athens, from May 28 to 31, 2003. The 86 selected contributions presented in this volume, cover a wide spectrum of topics from novel methods in Archaeometry to applications of traditional techniques to various kinds of archaeological material. The thematic sessions of the Symposium included: Dating – Authenticity, Geophysical Prospection, Geoarchaeology, Palaeoenvironment – Palaeodiet, Palaeoanthropology, Material Characterisation Techniques, Ceramics, Glass, Stones, Mortars, Metals, Painting Media, Organics and Conservation. Cover Page Copyright Page EDITORIAL TABLE OF CONTENTS DATING AUTHENTICITY INDIVIDUAL AGE ESTIMATION BASED ON THE D-ASPARTIC AND D-GLUTAMIC ACIDOF TEETH NEW PROSPECTS IN OBSIDIAN HYDRATION DATING: AN INTEGRATED APPROACH LUMINESCENCE DATING BEYOND POTTERY: A REVIEW HUNTING OUT FORGERS OF ARCHAEOLOGICAL MARBLE OBJECTS: REVIEWING THE ARCHAEOMETRIST’S ROLE AS A DETECTIVE ACCELERATOR MASS SPECTROMETRY DATING OF EPICURUS “DE NATURA” PAPYRUS FROM HERCULANEUM A SINGLE ALIQUOT POLYMINERAL TL PROTOCOL APPLIED FOR FIRED MATERIALS COMPARATIVE STUDIES ON THE DETERMINATION OF ENVIRONMENTAL RADIATION DOSES ALTERED ARCHAEOLOGICAL POTTERY AND THE EFFECT ON TL DATING GEOPHYSICAL PROSPECTION THE CANAL OF XERXES IN NORTHERN GREECE: FACT OR FICTION? RECENT GEOPHYSICAL AND GEOARCHAEOLOGICAL INVESTIGATIONS THE RECONSTRUCTION OF PREHISTORIC SHORELINES IN DOKOS ISLAND, AEGEAN SEA, USING REMOTE SENSING TECHNIQUES IDENTIFYING BURNED MUD BRICK BUILDINGS USING FLUXGATE MAGNETOMETRY APPLICATION OF NEAR-SURFACE GEOPHYSICAL TOOLS AND GIS FOR MAPPING THE ANCIENT CITY OF LEFKAS GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH AT SYNTAGMA SQUARE, ATHENS – RELATIONSHIP TO GEOLOGY AND ANCIENT TEXTS INTEGRATED GEOPHYSICAL STUDIES AT ANCIENT ITANOS (GREECE) THE GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH AT THE CHURCH OF ST. THEODORA AT VASTA MEGALOPOLIS, GREECE ΙNVESTIGATION OF A MONUMENTAL MACEDONIAN TUMULUS BY THREE DIMENSIONAL SEISMIC TOMOGRAPHY GEOPHYSICAL INVESTIGATIONS IN PELASGIA & ANDRON USE OF REMOTE SENSING AND GIS METHODS IN THE RECONSTRUCTION OF COASTAL PALAEOGEOGRAPHY OF ALEXANDRIA, EGYPT PROSPECTING OF THE CITY WALL AT THE ASEA PREHISTORIC SITE (GREECE) USING GEOELECTRIC AND GPR TECHNIQUES THE MOST FAMOUS ERUPTION OF THE THERA VOLCANO: A REVIEW OF MORE THAN SIXTY YEARS OF STUDIES BETWEEN PEAK AND PALACE. REINTERPRETATION OF THE MINOAN CULTURAL LANDSCAPE IN SPACE AND TIME GEOLOGICAL CONTRIBUTION TO THE STRATIGRAPHIC STUDY OF THE PALAEOLITHIC SEDIMENTS AT THE LAKONIS BEACH, GYTHION, GREECE TROY – GEOMORPHOLOGIC CHANGES IN THE VALLEY OF THE RIVER SCAMANDER GEOARCHAEOLOGY COOKING INGREDIENTS FROM BRONZE AGE ARCHONDIKO: THE ARCHAEOBOTANICAL EVIDENCE SEASONALITY AND RADIOLOGY: A PILOT APPLICATION ON RED DEER (CERVUS ELAPHUS) DENTARIES FROM THE UPPER PALAEOLITHIC CAVE OF KASTRITSA, NW GREECE FROM SEA TO LAND: THE EXPLOITATION OF MOLLUSCS IN THE GEOMETRIC ARTISAN SITE OF SKALA OROPOU, ATTICA ELEMENTAL ANALYSIS OF BONES AND DIET RECONSTRUCTION OF THE INHABITANTS OF THRACIA (BULGARIA) IN THE HELLENISTIC PERIOD IN SEARCH OF MOTHERS AND DAUGHTERS IN 3000 YEAR OLD BURIALS IN NORTHERN GREECE ANCIENT DNA EXTRACTION AND AMPLIFICATION OF HUMAN BONE SAMPLES FROM THE AREA OF DELPHI: A PILOT CASE STUDY PYGMIES, SCIAPODES, MACROCEPHALI, ARGIPPEANS: MYTHICAL OR EXISTENT TRIBES? CERAMICS AND GLASS THE SIGNIFICANCE OF FABRIC DIVERSITY IN NEOLITHIC KNOSSOS CERAMICS EARLY HELLADIC II POTTERY FROM THEBES: AN INTEGRATED TYPOLOGICAL, TECHNOLOGICAL AND PROVENANCE STUDY REGIONAL PRODUCTION CENTERS OF IRON AGE POTTERY WARES IN PHILISTIA: APROVENANCE STUDY EMPLOYING INDUCTIVELY-COUPLED PLASMA (ICP-AES AND ICP-MS) NON-DESTRUCTIVE QUANTITATIVE XRF ANALYSIS ON GREEK ARCHAIC POTTERY OF THE ALAIMO SANCTUARY IN LENTINI (SICILY) ON THE ORIGIN OF STAMPED AMPHORAE FROM THRACIAN CITIES IN BULGARIA MINOAN AND MYCENAEAN METALLURGICAL CERAMICS: ANALYSIS ON CRUCIBLES AND MOULD FROM KOMMOS, SOUTH CRETE THIN SECTIONING NEOLITHIC IDENTITIES: THE RED MONOCHROME WARE (A1) FROM MIDDLE NEOLITHIC SESKLO, THESSALY IMPORTED AND LOCAL POTTERY IN EASTERN MEDITERRANEAN SITES DURING THE EARLY BYZANTINE PERIOD: THE CASE OF ELEUTHERNA, CRETE NEW EVIDENCE FOR AMPHORA PRODUCTION IN EAST CRETE IN THE HELLENISTIC PERIOD. AN INTEGRATED APPROACH OF TYPOLOGY AND THIN SECTION PETROGRAPHY UNDERSTANDING THE TECHNOLOGY OF LARGE STORAGE JARS: RAW MATERIALS AND TECHNIQUES IN HELLENISTIC AND MODERN MESSENIA THE STUDY OF BRICKS OF ROMAN MONUMENTS MEDIEVAL GLASS BRACELETS FROM SOUTH EAST BULGARIA A NATRON SOURCE FOR GLASS MAKING IN GREECE? PRELIMINARY RESULTS COMPOSITION AND MICROSTRUCTURE OF DECORATIVE ENAMELS INCLUDED IN ROMAN FIBULAE FOUND IN BULGARIA STONES AND MORTARS THE MATERIAL CHARACTERIZATION OF MASONRY STONES AND MORTAR FROM THE ARCHAEOLOGICAL SITE IN JERUSALEM EXCHANGE NETWORKS IN THE NEOLITHIC OF GREECE: GABBRO AND TALC OBJECTS FROM DRAKAINA CAVE, KEPHALONIA ISLAND, WESTERN GREECE RAW MATERIAL PROCUREMENT IN THE MIDDLE PALAEOLITHIC OF THESSALY: SOURCING STUDIES ASSESSMENT OF AEGEAN OBSIDIAN SOURCES BY A PORTABLE ED-XRF ANALYSER: GROUPING, PROVENANCE AND ACCURACY PGAA ANALYSIS OF SZELETIAN FELSITIC PORPHYRY – NON-DESTRUCTIVE ANALYSIS OF AN IMPORTANT HUNGARIAN PALAEOLITHIC RAW MATERIAL QUANTITATIVE FABRIC ANALYSIS (QFA) ON MARBLE FROM WEST ANATOLIA: APPLICATION OF RASTER- (FRACTAL) AND VECTOR-BASED (GEOMETRIC) APPROACHES BRONZE AGE PAINTED PLASTER FROM THE GREEK MAINLAND: A COMPARATIVE STUDY OF ITS TECHNOLOGY BY MEANS OF XRD ANALYSIS AND OPTICAL MICROSCOPY TECHNIQUES CLASSIFICATION OF HISTORICAL MORTARS BY PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS, BASED ON THEIR PHYSICO-CHEMICAL AND MECHANICAL PROPERTIES TECHNOLOGY OF MORTARS USED FOR THE SUBSTRATUM OF MOSAICS METALS ANALYSIS OF ARCHAEOLOGICAL OBJECTS WITH LM[NT], A NEW TRANSPORTABLE LIBS INSTRUMENT QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS OF ATHENIAN COINAGE BY PIXE METAL ARTEFACTS FROM EARLY BRONZE AGE POLIOCHNI ON LEMNOS: ARCHAEOMETRIC ANALYSIS IN ARCHAEOLOGICAL PERSPECTIVE TOWARDS AN INTEGRATED APPROACH FOR THE STUDY OF ANCIENT GREEK TECHNOLOGY: IRON AND ARCHAEOLOGY IN AEGEAN THRACE THE TRÉSTINA BRONZES: ARCHAEOMETRY AND ARCHAEOLOGY NON DESTRUCTIVE INVESTIGATION OF THE AG DISTRIBUTION IN THE LATE ROMAN FOLLES FROM ABOUT 300 TO 310 AD. METALLURGICAL STUDY OF THREE BRONZE RAMS FROM WARSHIPS, DATING BACK TO CLASSICAL, HELLENISTIC AND ROMAN TIMES A FIRST VALUATION OF THE EXCAVATION OF ANCIENT WASHERIES AT BERTSEKO LAUREOTIKA THE LAURION SHAFTS OF ANTIQUITY: FIRST INVESTIGATIONS AND THE PROBLEMS OF VENTILATION. DEVELOPMENT OF A PHYSICAL MODEL. COMPLEX BEAUTY: THE MANUFACTURE OF HELLENISTIC WREATHS INVESTIGATING THE PRESENCE AND EFFECTS OF ARSENIC IN TWO BLOOMERY IRON CLOTS (2ND – 3RD C. AD) FROM KERELIAI, LITHUANIA A TENTATIVE COMPARISON OF STEEL-MAKING CRUCIBLES FROM CENTRAL ASIA AND THE INDIAN SUBCONTINENT THE STUDY OF ANCIENT COPPER SLAGS FROM SERIFOS ARCHAEOMETALLURGICAL RESEARCHES IN THE OTHRIS MOUNTAINS, GREECE NEW EVIDENCE OΝ THE MANUFACTURING TECHNOLOGY USED IN THE PRODUCTION OF ROMAN COINS (260 – 350 AD) PAINTING MEDIA A CASE STUDY OF PURPLE ADULTERATION IN HELLENISTIC TEXTILES THE USE OF RED AND YELLOW OCHRES AS PAINTING MATERIALS IN ANCIENT MACEDONIA THE DECORATION OF THE RHODIAN WHITE-GROUND HADRA HYDRIAE: AN INITIAL APPROACH IDENTIFICATION OF PROTEINACEOUS BINDING MEDIA FROM POST-BYZANTINE MURAL PAINTINGS WITH CHROMATOGRAPHIC TECHNIQUES BIODEGRADATION OF ART OBJECTS: IMPACT ON ANIMAL GLUE IDENTIFICATION SPECTROSCOPIC ELLIPSOMETRY: A NON-DESTRUCTIVE TECHNIQUE FOR MEASURING THE OPTICAL PROPERTIES OF VARNISH FILMS ON PAINTINGS ΤYPICAL APPLICATION OF PETROGRAPHICAL STUDY FOR THE SUPPORT OF CONSERVATION PROJECTS IN ΜΑNSIONS AT CHIOS AND INOUSSES THE ARTISTIC TRAITS OF GYZIS: A FIRST DIAGNOSTIC APPROACH TO HIS PAINTINGS ORGANICS ANALYTICAL STUDY OF THE INTERNAL STRUCTURE AND THE STATE OF FOSSILIZATION OF SKELETAL REMAINS FROM THE SITE OF PIKERMI (ATTICA, GREECE) ORGANIC RESIDUES FROM THE LATE NEOLITHIC MAKRIYALOS COOKING POTS DEVELOPMENT OF FAST DERIVATISATION PROCEDURES FOR THE CHEMICAL INVESTIGATION OF ORGANIC RESIDUES IN EARLY BYZANTINE TRANSPORT CONTAINERS FROM EPHESOS/TURKEY CONSERVATION A COMPARATIVE STUDY OF DEGRADATION PATTERNS OF PETRIFIED MATERIAL FROM GREEK FOSSILIZED FORESTS STUDY OF THREE CONSOLIDANTS USED IN SUB - FOSSILIZED BONES THAT ARE GOING TO BE EXPOSED IN SITU (IN OUTDOOR CONDITIONS) ANALYSIS OF THE ORANGE-BROWN PATINA ON MARBLE SURFACES FROM THE OLYMPIEION IN COMPARISON WITH A SIMILAR PATINA FROM THE PROPYLAEA, ACROPOLIS INVESTIGATION OF MICROCRACKS IN MARBLE FROM MT. PENTELI BY DIELECTRIC SPECTROSCOPY THE BUST OF LENIN BY MEMOS MAKRIS: FORMS OF CORROSION AND CONSERVATION WORK TEMPORARY WOODEN BOSSES: NEW REMARKS ON LIFTING DEVICES IN THE ANCIENT WORLD THE STRUCTURES OF V-IV CENTURY B.C. OF THE NISYROS AND PYRGOUSA ISLANDS (DODECANESE):BUILDING TECHNIQUES, NATURE AND SOURCE LAND