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News 2020

29 December 2020

A new paper for ArchaeChemis on the sandstone ashlars employed in Sagunto Castle buildings. The paper has been published by Archivo de Prehistoria Levantina and can be read in the webpage of the journal.

17 December 2020

Many thanks to Cirenia for the beautiful infographic shown at MEDNIGHT2020, que resume nuestre reciente estudio metodológico de las anforas de Sagunto, y a The Analytical Scientist for the article on the same subject which can be read at this link: https://theanalyticalscientist.com/fields-applications/ancient-amphora-analysis.

16 November 2020

The conference paper show at the congress IN-RED 2020 has been published in the webpage. It can be downloaded at this link: http://ocs.editorial.upv.es/index.php/INRED/INRED2020/paper/view/12012.

30 October 2020

Some pictures from our last survey. Looking for chert outcrops in the Valencian Community.

15 October 2020

The archaeological science research in the Mediterranean area

Since the middle of the last century, the study of archaeological materials using methodologies typical of disciplines considered as sciences such as physics, chemistry, biology and geology has served as support to the traditional methodological lines of archaeology, which has allowed access to a database that without the support of multidisciplinarity would be unattainable. The development of these transversal studies has allowed the creation of a new discipline known as archaeological sciences or also better known as archaeometry. In this brief writing I prefer to speak of archaeological science, which is in my opinion the most appropriate name to use today, because archaeometry, whose etymology refers to ἀρχαίος (‘ancient’) and μετρία (‘measure’) would only include studies related to analytics. The concept of archaeological science is much broader and can include more disciplines or applications that have a scientific basis, such as experimental archaeology, the study of images and finally the use of the geographic information system (GIS)...

Follow the link in the text to read the whole article of our Gianni about the development of Archaeologica Science for the Mediterranean Researchers Night (MEDNIGHT2020).

5 October 2020

Amazing morning with Aleix Eixea (Department of Prehistory, Archaeology and Ancient History, University of Valencia) and Jaime Cuevas (Environment and Earth Sciences Department, University of Alicante), sampling sediments at the Aljezares Middle Paleolithic site (Aspe, Alicante).

23 September 2020

Our innovative methodological approach for ancient #ceramic classification could be useful for researchers struggling with unidentified sherds. You can download the paper here: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0169131720304221?via%3Dihub#s0100

14 September 2020

Are the ochers of Santa Maira Cave local? Here's the answer, in collaboration with prof. Aura Tortosa (Dep. of Prehistory, Archaeology and Ancient History, University of Valencia): https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/gea.21821

8 September 2020

First virtual congress for our Mirco that today showed the results of the provenance study of chert artefacts from Cocina Cave at the Tenth International Conference on the Mesolithic in Europe.

3 September 2020

Interesting research published on Archaeometry by Dr. Vega Maeso together with ArchaeChemis! Rare Earth Elements were used for the first time to study Early Bronze Age ceramic post-depositional processes. The paper can be read and downloaded at this link: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/arcm.12605.

31 August 2020

Starting a new excavation in Cova de les Cendres.

18 July 2020

Congratulations to our students Carlos, Maria and Jose. We are so proud that your dedication have enabled you to accomplish great things. Congratulations for achieving your Bachelor degree in Chemistry!

15 July 2020

Morning of surveying and chert sampling in Andilla (Valencia), around the archaeological site of Mangraneras.

30 June 2020

Archaechemis supports horizontal multidisciplinarity and international collaboration with EU third countries. Our research was adopted for blood plasma analysis of autistic children from Tunisia. Thanks to Fethia Chehbani for the opportunity of working together.

https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11356-020-09819-5

18 June 2020

ArchaeChemis is happy to participate to the digital workshops by the Department of Prehistory, Archaeology and Ancient History of the University of Valencia for European Archaeology Days #JEA2020. We contribute with a Raman and X-ray fluorescence spectroscopies demonstration which you can see at this LINK.

6 June 2020

Finally, after months of lockdown due to the pandemic, we have returned to the laboratory.

4 April 2020

New open access paper is out, published by "Atti della Società Toscana di Scienze Naturali- Memorie Seria A"! The study is a collaboration among the Departments of Prehistory, Archaeology and Ancient History, and Analytical Chemistry of the University of Valencia, the University of York (Aarea Project), The British Geological Survey and the University of Pisa. The work is part of our Gianni Marie Curie project MATRIX.

The paper can be downloaded by this link.

24 February 2020

Testing the new Raman spectrometer with geologic samples.

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