Pub Date : 1998-05-01DOI: 10.4000/books.pupvd.33589
A. Blanc, L. Holmes, G. Harbottle
Numerous quarries in the Lutetian limestone formations of the Paris Basin provided stone for the building and the decoration of monuments from antiquity to the present. To determine the origin of stone used for masonry and sculptures in these monuments, a team of geologists and archaeologists has investigated 300 quarries and collected 2,300 samples. Petrographic and paleontologic examination of thin sections allows geologists to distinguish Lutetian limestones from Jurassic and Cretaceous limestones. Geologists also seek to formulate hypotheses regarding the origin of Lutetian limestones used for building and sculpture in the Paris region. In the search for the sources of building and sculptural stone, the analytical methods of geologists are limited because often several quarries produce the same lithofacies. A new tool is now available, however, to attack questions of provenance raised by art historians. Because limestones from different sources have distinctive patterns of trace-element concentrations, compositional analysis by neutron activation allows them to compare building or sculptural stone from one monument with stone from quarries or other monuments. This analytical method subjects a powdered limestone sample to standard neutron activation analysis procedures at Brookhaven National Laboratory. With the help of computer programs, the compositional fingerprints of Lutetian limestones can be determined and stored in a database. The limestone database contains data for approximately 2,100 samples from monuments, sculptures and quarries. It is particularly rich in samples from the Paris Basin.
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Pub Date : 1900-01-01DOI: 10.4000/books.pupvd.33604
J. Richard
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Pub Date : 1900-01-01DOI: 10.4000/books.pupvd.33569
J. Bessac
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Pub Date : 1900-01-01DOI: 10.4000/books.pupvd.33664
Dominique Cauche, C. Tozzi, G. Vicino, H. D. Lumley
Les fouilles realisees dans les grottes d'Arma delle Manie et de Santa Lucia superiore (Ligurie, Italie) ont livre plusieurs milliers d'artefacts lithiques associe aux restes fauniques. La comparaison entre les materiels lithique mousteriens de ces deux sites montre une grande similarite du point de vue de la nature des matieres premieres exploitees et utilisees par les Hommes prehistoriques. L'etude des proportions relatives entre eclats bruts et eclats retouches en outils, en fonction des matieres premieres principales, permet de mettre en evidence des exploitations differentielles de ces roches en fonction de leurs qualites intrinseques. Il apparait ainsi qu'il y a eu une tendance de la part des Mousteriens de ces sites a choisir les matieres premieres de meilleures qualite pour la transformation de support brut en outil. L'analyse des differentes familles d'outils et de differents types de retouches en fonction egalement des matieres premieres lithiques permet de degager certaines caracteristiques de ces ensembles lithiques.
在arma delle mania和Santa Lucia superiore(意大利利古里亚)的洞穴中进行的挖掘,已经发现了数千件与野生动物遗骸有关的石器文物。对这两个遗址的mousterian岩石材料的比较表明,史前人类开发和使用的原材料的性质有很大的相似之处。通过对主要原料的粗碎屑和工具加工碎屑的相对比例的研究,可以揭示这些岩石在其内在品质方面的不同开采方式。因此,这些地点的Mousteriens似乎有一种趋势,选择质量最好的原材料,将原始材料转化为工具。通过分析不同种类的工具和不同类型的修饰,也根据岩性原料,可以确定这些岩性组合的某些特征。
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Pub Date : 1900-01-01DOI: 10.4000/books.pupvd.33694
J. Lorenz, D. Tardy
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Pub Date : 1900-01-01DOI: 10.4000/books.pupvd.33619
P. Blanc, J. Gély
{"title":"L’analyse de la provenance des marbres blancs par cathodoluminescence et son application au marbre de Céret","authors":"P. Blanc, J. Gély","doi":"10.4000/books.pupvd.33619","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4000/books.pupvd.33619","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":376820,"journal":{"name":"Pierre et archéologie","volume":"55 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133504724","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 1900-01-01DOI: 10.4000/books.pupvd.33689
Henry Baills, S. Grégoire
{"title":"L’outil en pierre : choix et contraintes le cas de l’industrie lithique de la couche C3 du site des Conques","authors":"Henry Baills, S. Grégoire","doi":"10.4000/books.pupvd.33689","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4000/books.pupvd.33689","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":376820,"journal":{"name":"Pierre et archéologie","volume":"13 7","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114085733","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}