TY - JOUR
T1 - Neutron activation analysis in Mediterranean Archaeology
T2 - current applications and future perspectives
AU - Riehle, Kai
AU - Kistler, Erich
AU - Öhlinger, Birgit
AU - Heitz, Christian
AU - Ben-Shlomo, David
AU - Jung, Reinhard
AU - Mommsen, Hans
AU - Sterba, Johannes H.
AU - Gimatzidis, Stefanos
AU - Fantalkin, Alexander
AU - Prillwitz, Susanne
AU - Hein, Anno
AU - Geissler, Leonhard
AU - Lehmann, Gunnar
AU - Kindberg Jacobsen, Jan
AU - Posamentir, Richard
AU - Schlotzhauer, Udo
N1 - Funding Information:
The workshop “Neutron activation analysis (NAA) and its relevance to the archaeology of the ancient Mediterranean. Current state and perspectives of research” had to be held virtually on June 17–18th 2021 due to the COVID-19 pandemic. It was hosted by the Universities of Tübingen and Innsbruck. It would have not been possible without the financial support of the project “Potter’s Reactions to Local Demands: Comparing Indigenous Monte Iato (Sicily), Ascoli Satriano (Apulia) and Ripacandida (Basilicata), seventh to third centuries BC”. This research was funded in whole, or in part, by the Austrian Science Fund (FWF) [P33350-G]. For the purpose of open access, the author has applied a CC BY public copyright licence to any Author Accepted Manuscript version arising from this submission. We are grateful to the Institute of Archaeology at the University of Innsbruck and the Institute of Classical Archaeology at the University of Tübingen for additional logistical support. Special appreciation must be given to our student assistant Julien Vogel (Tübingen), who took care of the technical issues during the conference, and to Kathrin Schuchter (Innsbruck) for providing geographical data. We would also like to thank the reviewers for their valuable comments.
Funding Information:
The workshop “Neutron activation analysis (NAA) and its relevance to the archaeology of the ancient Mediterranean. Current state and perspectives of research” had to be held virtually on June 17–18th 2021 due to the COVID-19 pandemic. It was hosted by the Universities of Tübingen and Innsbruck. It would have not been possible without the financial support of the project “Potter’s Reactions to Local Demands: Comparing Indigenous Monte Iato (Sicily), Ascoli Satriano (Apulia) and Ripacandida (Basilicata), seventh to third centuries BC”. This research was funded in whole, or in part, by the Austrian Science Fund (FWF) [P33350-G]. For the purpose of open access, the author has applied a CC BY public copyright licence to any Author Accepted Manuscript version arising from this submission. We are grateful to the Institute of Archaeology at the University of Innsbruck and the Institute of Classical Archaeology at the University of Tübingen for additional logistical support. Special appreciation must be given to our student assistant Julien Vogel (Tübingen), who took care of the technical issues during the conference, and to Kathrin Schuchter (Innsbruck) for providing geographical data. We would also like to thank the reviewers for their valuable comments.
Publisher Copyright:
© 2023, The Author(s).
PY - 2023/3/1
Y1 - 2023/3/1
N2 - This paper, jointly written by participants of a workshop held in 2021, argues for an increased recognition and application of neutron activation analysis (NAA) in the archaeology of the ancient Mediterranean. Discussing the methodological strengths and challenges, it highlights the great potential NAA has for collecting proxy data from ceramics in order to develop progressive concepts of archaeological research within and beyond the Mediterranean Bronze and Iron Age, pointing out opportunities to revisit long-held assumptions of scholarship and to refine visual/macroscopic provenance determinations of pottery. To take full advantage of NAA’s strengths toward a better understanding of the socioeconomic background of ceramics production, distribution, and consumption, the paper emphasises the need for both interdisciplinary collaboration and basic data publication requirements.
AB - This paper, jointly written by participants of a workshop held in 2021, argues for an increased recognition and application of neutron activation analysis (NAA) in the archaeology of the ancient Mediterranean. Discussing the methodological strengths and challenges, it highlights the great potential NAA has for collecting proxy data from ceramics in order to develop progressive concepts of archaeological research within and beyond the Mediterranean Bronze and Iron Age, pointing out opportunities to revisit long-held assumptions of scholarship and to refine visual/macroscopic provenance determinations of pottery. To take full advantage of NAA’s strengths toward a better understanding of the socioeconomic background of ceramics production, distribution, and consumption, the paper emphasises the need for both interdisciplinary collaboration and basic data publication requirements.
KW - Connectivity
KW - Interdisciplinarity
KW - Mediterranean Archaeology
KW - NAA
KW - Pottery studies
KW - Provenance determination
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85148225836&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1007/s12520-023-01728-1
DO - 10.1007/s12520-023-01728-1
M3 - Article
C2 - 36789354
AN - SCOPUS:85148225836
SN - 1866-9557
VL - 15
JO - Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences
JF - Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences
IS - 3
M1 - 25
ER -