Dipartimento di Scienze dell'Antichità

This is a research line within a project funded by the Next Generation EU for the Italian National Recovery Plan, PE5 CHANGES, Spoke 5 (Science and Technologies for Sustainable Diagnostics
of Cultural Heritage). The project, started in April 2023, falls under WP6 ‘Cross-disciplinary interpretation of data from novel diagnostics and definition of multi-method protocols for the study
of Cultural Heritage. Specifically, the research line focus on the development of protocols for archaeological diagnostics, aiming to experiment and produce innovative methods for documenting technological
traces in the field and in the laboratory. The main objective is to build a non-invasive integrated methodology, applicable to the widest possible range of cases. Emphasizing various interpretative
levels, from macroscopic to mesoscopic and microscopic analysis, ongoing work involves analyzing construction techniques of structures, decorative elements, artistic signs, graphic
symbols, and production techniques of objects based on the imprints left by these techniques on processed materials.
The developed protocols are tested on stone and ceramic samples from various archaeological contexts related to the researches of the Department of Sciences of Antiquity.