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Authors: | Di Bella, Marcella* Italiano, Francesco* Martinelli, Maria Clara* Mazzoleni, Paolo* Quartieri, Simona* Tigano, Gabriella* Tripodo, Alessandro* Sabatino, Giuseppe* |
Title: | Archeometric characterization of prehistoric grindstones from Milazzo Bronze Age settlement (Sicily, Italy) | Journal: | Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences | Series/Report no.: | 7/10 (2018) | Issue Date: | 2018 | DOI: | 10.1007/s12520-017-0483-8 | Keywords: | Archeometry Volcanic rock Early Bronze Age SEM-EDS . XRF |
Subject Classification: | archeometric characterization | Abstract: | The results of a petrographic and geochemical study carried out on archeological grindstones allow to provide new constraints on protohistoric commercial exchanges over the Mediterranean area. Eleven grindstones, discovered in an archeological site located in Milazzo (Messina, Sicily) and dated from the Early Bronze Age, have been investigated by geochemical and petrographic techniques. The raw materials are mainly volcanic rocks characterized by calc-alkaline and K-alkaline affinities with volcanic arc geochemical signature. Only one sample, made of basalt belonging to the Naalkaline series, shows an intraplate signature. The comparison with the available literature data for similar rocks allowed constraining the volcanic origin of the exploited lavas. While the intraplate-type raw material came from Mt. Etna Volcano (Sicily), the arc-type volcanic rocks are mostly trachyandesites, basaltic andesites, and one rhyolite. Although most of them come from the Aeolian Arc, a provenance of some samples from the Aegean Arc cannot be excluded. This last region could represent the most probable provenance area for the rhyolite sample. |
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