From Quarries to Rock-cut Sites: Echoes of Stone Crafting

Author:   Anaïs Lamesa ,  Katy Whitaker ,  Gabriele Gattiglia ,  Claudia Sciuto
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Author:   Anaïs Lamesa ,  Katy Whitaker ,  Gabriele Gattiglia ,  Claudia Sciuto
Publisher:   Sidestone Press
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9789464261653


ISBN 10:   946426165
Pages:   260
Publication Date:   23 May 2023
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Foreword Gabriele Gattiglia (University of Pisa)   I. THEORETICAL AND METHODOLOGICAL CHALLENGES IN THE ARCHAEOLOGY OF QUARRIES AND ROCK-CUT SITES   Savoir-faire and Technical Environment: Rethinking the Emergence of Rock-cut Tombs in the Neolithic Mediterranean Marie-Elise Porqueddu (The School of Advanced Hispanic and Iberian Studies, Casa de Velázquez)   What to Expect when you’re Documenting and Excavating a Roman Quarry – Monte del Vescovo, Istria, Croatia Katarina Šprem (Juraj Dobrila University of Pula)   Theorising Ancient Quarries: How Far Have We Come? Christopher J. Lyes (School of Archaeology, University of Oxford)   When Quarry Waste Explains Tool Marks Daniel Morleghem (Citeres-LAT, CNRS and University of Tours)   The Hand, the Stone and the Mind: Exploring the Agency of Rocks in Quarrying Techniques Claudia Sciuto (University of Pisa)   II. CARVED SITES AND CARVED LANDSCAPES   How do Rock-cut Architectures Interact with the Landscape? The Example of Prehistoric Rock-cut Tombs in Ossi, Sardinia (Italy) Guillaume Robin (University of Edinburgh)   A Study of Quartzite (Silicified Sandstone) Quarries in Egypt Daniela Galazzo (Independent researcher)   First Reflections on the Structural Analysis of Rock-hewn Caves in Lalibela’s Landscape, Ethiopia Manon Routhiau (Traces, CNRS and University of Toulouse Jean Jaurès – Orient & Méditerranée, CNRS)   Quarrying, Carving and Shaping the Landscape. Stone Working at Dadan, Northwest Arabia, in the First Millennium BCE and Beyond Thierry Grégor (University of Poitiers), Jérôme Rohmer (Orient & Méditerranée, CNRS) and Abdulrahman Alsuhaibani (King Saud University/Royal Commission for AlUla)   Underground and Open-pit Quarries in Polignano a Mare (Italy): a Preliminary Investigation Germano Germano’ (Scuola Superiore Meridionale in Naples)   III. ROCK-CUT SITES AND QUARRIES: CRAFTS AND SOCIETIES   The Left-handed and the Ambidextrous: Methodological Considerations by Way of the Excavation of Rock-cut Churches Over the Long Term Anaïs Lamesa (French Institute for Anatolian Studies in Istanbul)   Qualifications of Craftsmen Who Dug Souterrains in France (10th-15th centuries) – Preliminary Results Luc Stevens (French Society for Souterrains Studies)   The Technique of Extracting Building Stone by “Stone-walling and Back-filling” in Paris: an Innovation of the Late Middle Ages Jean-Pierre Gély and Marc Viré† (LAMOP, CNRS and University of Paris Panthéon-Sorbonne)

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Anais Lamesa studied Art history and Archaeology at Panthéon-Sorbonne University and Paris-Sorbonne University. She was also a teaching fellow at Paris-Nanterre University, then a high school teacher. Subsequently, as a PI, she managed the Troglopie project (Troglodytisme en Ethiopie), funded by DIM-matériaux anciens et patrimoniaux/ Île-de-France fellowship at the CNRS, involving four research institutions (three French ones and an Ethiopian one) and a commercial company. In 2022, she obtained the French diploma of Senior GIS technician. The same year, she was appointed as the director of the archaeology department at the French Institute for Anatolian Studies in Istanbul, where she is responsible for the establishment of archaeological research programmes and their dissemination in Turkey. She is currently focusing on the region of Cappadocia and working on the sacred landscape of the region, the techniques used in its rock-cut monuments and the social aspects relying on the crafting of rock-cutting action. Key publications: Lamesa, A., Hailay Atsbha and Saint-Bézar, B. (2022). Églises rupestres du Tǝgray oriental et central. Résultats de prospections et hypothèses techniques et socio-économiques. Annales d’Éthiopie XXXV, pp.245-296. Bessac, J.-Cl., Lamesa, A. and Sciuto, Cl. (2021). The Archaeology of Quarries and Rock-cut Sites. In: Cl. Sciuto, A. Lamesa, K. Whitaker and A. Yamaç eds. Carved in Stone. The Archaeology of rock-cut sites and stones quarries, Oxford: BAR Publishing, pp.1-7. Lamesa, A. and Traina, G. (2020). L’Anatolie : de l’époque archaïque à Byzance. Besançon: ISTA. Lamesa, A. (2020). Methods for Rock-hewn Worksite Analysis: Case Study of Göreme’s n°4b (Cappadocia) “Thwarted” Worksite”. Anatolia Antiqua 28, pp.23-45. https://doi.org/10.4000/anatoliaantiqua.1308 Lamesa, A. and Erdoğan, N. (2020). La nécropole rupestre de Dara (Turquie). De nouvelles perspectives de recherche. In: D. Moreau, C.S. Snively, A. Guiglia, I. Baldini, L. Milanović, I. Popović, N. Beaudry and O. Heinrich-Tamáska eds. Archaeology of a World of Changes. Late Roman and Early Byzantine Architecture, Sculpture and Landscapes. In Memoriam Claudiae Barsanti. Oxford: BAR publishing, pp.105-116. Lamesa, A. (2015). La chapelle des Donateurs à Soğanlı, nouvelle fondation de la famille des Sképidès. Anatolia Antiqua, 23, pp.179-198. https://doi.org/10.4000/anatoliaantiqua.354 Katy Whitaker is a landscape archaeologist working in heritage research, management and protection with Historic England, the UK government’s advisory body on archaeology and the built environment. Her research into quarrying and stone-working focusses on sarsen stone, a silcrete used since the Neolithic in southern Britain. She uses traditional archaeological survey methods together with remotely sensed data and a range of archives in an innovative approach to landscape-scale analysis of extractive industries. Recent publications include collaborative analyses focussed on quarry sources of stone used to build the UNESCO World Heritage Site of Stonehenge, whilst two major studies of prehistoric and post-medieval sarsen stone exploitation will be published in 2022. Affiliation: University of Reading and Historic England, UK Key publications: Whitaker, K.A. 2020. Sarsen Stones in Wessex: A Society of Antiquaries Project contextualised and renewed. The Antiquaries Journal 100, pp.432-456. Nash, D.J., Cibarowski, J.R., Ullyott, J.S., Parker Pearson, M., Darvill, T., Greaney, S., Maniatis, G., Whitaker, K.A. 2020. Origins of the sarsen megaliths at Stonehenge. Science Advances 6(31), online. https://doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.abc0133 Whitaker, K.A. 2019. What if none of the building stones at Stonehenge came from Wiltshire? Oxford Journal of Archaeology 38(2), pp.148-163. Whitaker, K.A. 2019. Sarsen stone quarrying in southern England. An Introduction. In A. Teather, P. Topping and J. Baczkowski eds. Extracting more than rock? Insights into the acquisition of stone and flint in the Neolithic. Oxford: Neolithic Studies Group Seminar Series 16, pp.101-113. Gabriele Gattiglia is an Associate Professor of Archaeological Methods and Theory at the University of Pisa. His fields of interest regarding Digital Archaeology (mainly Big Data, Artificial Intelligence and Open Data), Archaeological Theory, and Medieval, Postmedieval and Contemporary Archaeology. He coordinates the Winter School R for ARchaeologists, dedicated to quantitative methods in Archaeology and works at MAPPA Lab. He has coordinated the H2020 ArchAIDE Project (2016-19), aimed at the automatic recognition of archaeological potsherds through Artificial Intelligence. Currently, he participates in the FAIR (Future Artificial Intelligence Research, 2023-26) project funded by the Next Generation EU programme. He is a member of the Scientific Committee of the Computer Application in Archaeology (CAA) Association. Claudia Sciuto is a research fellow in environmental archaeology at the University of Pisa, Italy. She works on the transformations of quarrying landscapes, looking at different environmental proxies. Her focus is on the relationships between geologies and human communities as manifested through the development of technical and social characters. Her work is transdisciplinary since it entails a methodological and theoretical reflection as well as morphological/archaeometric analysis of materials, and ethnographic fieldwork. She currently leads a research team for the project “Forsaken ecologies” which aims at investigating the metamorphoses of cultural landscapes in the Apuan Alps. Current affiliation: Researcher at Pisa University. Key publications: Sciuto, C., Cantini, F., Chapoulie, R., Cou, C., De la Codre, H., Gattiglia, G., Granier, X. 2022. What Lies Beyond Sight? Applications of Ultraportable Hyperspectral Imaging (VIS-NIR) for Archaeological Fieldwork. Journal of Field Archaeology, pp.1-14. https://doi.org/10.1080/00934690.2022.2135066 Raneri, S., Botto, A., Campanella, B., Momčilović, M., Palleschi, V., Poggialini, F., Sciuto, C. 2022. Increasing Resolution in Chemical Mapping of Geomaterials: From X-Ray Fluorescence to Laser-Induced Breakdown Spectroscopy. Spectrochimica Acta Part B: Atomic Spectroscopy 194, online. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.sab.2022.106482 Raneri, S., Sciuto, C. 2021. Archeometria da campo, quando il laboratorio arriva sullo scavo. In: F. Cantini ed. Sisto Project 2020. Archeologia dei centri del potere pubblico nel centro di Pisa, Archeologia Medievale XLVIII, pp.9-109. Sciuto, C. 2021. Racconti di pietre. L’applicazione di metodi archeometrici portatili allo studio dei paesaggi. In D. Gangale Risoleo and I. Raimondo eds. Landscape. Una sintesi di elementi diacronici. Nuove metodologie per l’analisi di un territorio. Oxford: BAR Publishing, pp.121-132. Bessac, J.-C., Lamesa, A., Sciuto, C. 2021. The archaeology of quarries and rock-cut sites. In: C. Sciuto, A. Lamesa, K. Whitaker, A. Yamac eds. Carved in stone. The archaeology of rock-cut sites and quarries. Oxford: BAR Publishing, pp.1-7. Marie-Elise Porqueddu is a PhD in Prehistory and a post-doctoral researcher at the École des hautes études hispaniques et ibériques, Casa de Velázquez (Spain). Her research focuses on carving savoir-faire and Neolithic underground architectures (mining sites and rock-cut tombs) in the Western Mediterranean. Current affiliation 2022-2023: Scientific member (post-doctoral) at the École des hautes études hispaniques et ibériques, Casa de Velázquez (Spain) / Researcher affiliated to Aix Marseille Univ, CNRS, Minist Culture, LAMPEA, Aix-en-Provence (France) Past affiliation 2020-2022: Experimental Laboratory LAEX of the Universidad Autónoma de Madrid (Spain), Fyssen Foundation post-doctoral grant. Key publications: Porqueddu, M.E., Bailly, M., Margarit, X., Fallavollita, P. and Melis, M.G. 2021. From Surfaces to Tools: Traceology and Experimental Analysis of Digging Techniques of Mediterranean Rock-Cut Tombs. In: C. Sciuto, A. Lamesa, K. Whitaker, A. Yamaç eds. Carved in Stone. The archaeology of rock-cut sites and stone quarries. Oxford: BAR Publishing, pp.9-22. Porqueddu, M.E. 2019. De l’outil à la représentation du collectif ? Le dépôt du macro-outillage de creusement dans les cavités artificielles funéraires au Néolithique. Techniques & Culture, online. http://journals.openedition.org/tc/10786 Porqueddu, M.E. 2018. Bâtir sous terre : Architectures et techniques des sépultures collectives hypogées de Méditerranée occidentale à la fin de la Préhistoire. Unpublished PhD Thesis, Aix-Marseille Université, Università di Sassari https://www.theses.fr/2018AIXM0347 Porqueddu, M.E. 2016. Lo studio delle tecniche di escavazione degli ipoegi funerari preistorici: un nuovo approccio metodologico a S’Elighe Entosu. In: M.G. Melis ed. Usini. Nuove ricerche a S’Elighe Entosu, Quaderni del LaPArS, pp.139-171. Melis, M.G. and Porqueddu, M.E. 2015. New documentation on digging techniques of the prehistoric funerary hypogea of the western Mediterranean. Origini XXXVII, pp.129-150.

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