News 2022
15th December 2022
Eight years working together, thanks to all our partners!
29th October 2022
Our Gianni and Clodoaldo Roldán participated in the 14th Iberic Congress of Archaeometry showing our research on the role of rare earth elements in the study of archaeological sediments and on Levantine rock art.
28th October 2022
It is challenging to develop a non-destructive method for #dolerite provenance studies. Have a look at our new paper: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.microc.2022.108080
18th October 2022
We tested smartphone capability to indentify different red pigments in frescoes: https://sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1296207422001777
30th September 2022
It was nice to share our work to general public students and colleagues at the European Research Night. Many thanks to the Unitat de Cultura Científica i de la Innovació of the Universitat de València for the amazing organization at Ciudad de las Artes y de las Ciencias.
23rd September 2022
Congratulations to our bachelor and master students .
8th September 2022
Great conference by Dr. Simon Chenery (British Geological Survey) on LA-ICP-MS use in Archaeology. We hope this will be part of our continued collaboration.
Thanks to all the participants.
2nd September 2022
We have presented at the Meeting of EAA our work about Rare Earths Archaeology applied for Cueva De La Cocina chert provenance study at the session 38 "Characterization of Lithic Material in Prehistory, Methods, Problems, Results" organised by Fred Surmely and Agnė Čivilytė.
1st August 2022
We visited the Visigothic archaeological sites of Valencia la Vella and Pla de Nada (Riba-roja de Túria) during the archaeological fieldworks carried out under the supervision of Albert Ribera, Josep Maria Macias (Istitut Català d'Arqueologia Clàssica) and Miquel Roselló.
22nd July 2022
Ivan Fumado Ortega and GianniGallello present the results of the archaeometric studies carried out so far in Sagunto during the Days of Study organised in Valencia.
19th July 2022
First test of the new LA-ICP-MS of the Central Support Service for Experimental Research (SCSIE)!
11th july 2022
Pushing forward with our Carmelo PhD project today at the Museum and archaeological area of Naxos in Western Sicily.
7th July 2022
Our Roberto presented the results of his research on pigment identification at the 6th International Congress Chemistry for Cultural Heritage (CHEMCH) in Ravenna.
R. Sáez-Hernández et al. "Smartphone-based colorimetric determination of red pigments in Roman frescoes replicas"
3rd July 2022
Last Thursday, our Mirco showed the preliminary results of our research about smartphone application tested on mock-up rock art at the 13th National Congress of Colour.
The conference paper can be downloaded through this link: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/361721140_Aplicacion_de_smartphone_en_el_analisis_colorimetrico_de_replicas_de_pinturas_rupestres
20th June 2022
Congratulations to our Mirco that defended his PhD thesis!
10th June 2022
After the Raman, we have to set up the new pXRF!
8 June 2022
ArchaeChemis works in the optimisation of the use of Rare Earth Elements for the study of archaeological sediments.
You can download our last paper in which we compare two methods of preparation of soil samples through this link:
28th May 2022
Today we took part to Expociencia with a workshop on Archaeological Chemistry. Many thanks to all the partipant of this scientific divulgation event!
27 May 2022
Congratulations to our PhD student Alessia who showed the results of her research in the XVI National and International Congress of Paleopathology at Girona.
Larini, A., Polo Cerdá, M., Gallello, G. & Díez Castillo, A. Un caso de fusión sacroilíaca en la necrópolis islámica de Colata (Montaverner, Valencia, España).
26th May 2022
Sampling chert in the outcrops of Andilla and Chelva.
23rd May 2022
We're setting up the new Raman spectrometer!
20th May 2022
Our Mirco took part to the International Symposium on Archaeometry (ISA2020/2022) of Lisboa with a poster on the use of smartphone in the provenance study of lithic artefacts.
12th April 2022
Imagine a smartphone as an analytical device to study archaeological mortars: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2352409X22000967
7th April 2022
We are setting up the new ICP-MS!
20th February 2022
Have a look at this video about ArchaeChemis collaboration with INAPH (University of Alicante) on sediment analysis.
31st January 2022
Can we identify raw materials provenance of prehistoric siliceous artefacts by rare earth elements? Have a look at this new research!
29 October 2022
Our Gianni and Clodoaldo Roldán participated in the 14th Iberic Congress of Archaeometry showing our research on the role of rare earth elements in the study of archaeological sediments and on Levantine rock art.