Objective Material culture is actively used to establish, and maintain boundaries. From time to time social or political differences result in material and technological differences. The understanding of the variable relationships between material culture and social boundaries contributes to a broader anthropological and theoretical understanding of material culture as part of society and the comprehension of past socio-economical systems can lead to a better undersanding of the actual reality. The Western Mediterranean has played an important role in a crucial moment of transformation in the Mediterranean World. During this exact moment a progressive change from the “world socio-economic system” into a “close or regional socio-economic system” occurred. The study of the Late Roman Coarse Wares (LRCW's) is essential to understand these changes. However, LRCW's had not been intensively studied and the existing results raise lots of new questions and problems to deal with, regarding not only to the production and consumption patterns during Late Antiquity, but also some aspects of the theoretical fundaments of provenance. Our proposal involves a complete archaeological archaeometrical, ethnoarchaeological and ethnoarchaeometrical characterisation of LRCW's, taking as a sudy case Sardinia, an exhaustive study of raw materials, identification their technological characteristics and an extended study of their techno-functional sufficiency. This proposal, finally, aims to create a holistic methodological approach which could be applied by other specialists in the future in similar studies, also to propose a complete and standardised methodology for raw material study introducing new approaches and to construct a Digital Geological Information System (Geo-GIS), which will provide all the necessary information on raw materials and possible sources for LRCW's in the Western Mediterranean. At last, our project also aims to generate a complete digital data base. Fields of science humanitieshistory and archaeologyhistoryancient history Keywords 21 GIS archaeology archeometry chemistry digital library ethnoarchaeology ethnoarchaeometry geology mineralogy pertography pottery raw materials sem techno-functional adequancy xrd xrf Programme(s) FP7-PEOPLE - Specific programme "People" implementing the Seventh Framework Programme of the European Community for research, technological development and demonstration activities (2007 to 2013) Topic(s) FP7-PEOPLE-IEF-2008 - Marie Curie Action: "Intra-European Fellowships for Career Development" Call for proposal FP7-PEOPLE-IEF-2008 See other projects for this call Funding Scheme MC-IEF - Intra-European Fellowships (IEF) Coordinator UNIVERSITA DEGLI STUDI DI PALERMO EU contribution € 173 258,85 Address PIAZZA MARINA 61 90133 Palermo Italy See on map Region Isole Sicilia Palermo Activity type Higher or Secondary Education Establishments Administrative Contact Maria Averna (Dr.) Links Contact the organisation Opens in new window Website Opens in new window Total cost No data
