Production technology and knowledge transfer of calcite‐tempered grey ware bowls from 2nd‐ to 5th‐century ceNoricum (Austria).

Aspects of 2nd‐ to 5th‐century ce Roman production technology and knowledge transfer in southern Austria (known as Noricum) were examined. With no evidence for workshops identified in the study area, 44 grey ware bowls from two sites at Aguntum and Lavant were studied macroscopically, and combined w...

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Published in:Archaeometry Vol. 65; no. 3; pp. 480 - 498
Main Authors: Borgers, Barbara, Ionescu, Corina, Gál, Ágnes, Neubauer, Franz, Von Hagke, Christoph, Auer, Martin, Szilagyi, Veronika, Kasztovszky, Zsolt, Gméling, Katalin, Harsányi, Ildikó, Barbu‐Tudoran, Lucian
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Published: Wiley-Blackwell Jun2023
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          Borgers, Barbara
          Ionescu, Corina
          Gál, Ágnes
          Neubauer, Franz
          Von Hagke, Christoph
          Auer, Martin
          Szilagyi, Veronika
          Kasztovszky, Zsolt
          Gméling, Katalin
          Harsányi, Ildikó
          Barbu‐Tudoran, Lucian
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          Department of Classical Archaeology, University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria
          Department of Environment and Biodiversity, Geology Division, Paris Lodron University of Salzburg, Salzburg, Austria
          Electron Microscopy Center, Babeş‐Bolyai University, Cluj‐Napoca, Romania
          Department of Geology, Babeş‐Bolyai University, Cluj‐Napoca, Romania
          Institut für Archäologie, Universität Innsbruck, Innsbruck, Austria
          Centre for Energy Research, Budapest, Hungary
          National Institute for Isotopic and Molecular Technologies, Cluj‐Napoca, Romania
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        Knowledge transfer
        Technology transfer
        Calcite
        X-ray powder diffraction
        Scanning electron microscopy
        Microscopy
        Neutron diffraction
        Austria
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          Austria
          Knowledge transfer
          Technology transfer
          Calcite
          X-ray powder diffraction
          Scanning electron microscopy
          Microscopy
          Neutron diffraction
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        Chemistry
        Noricum
        Petrography
        Roman grey ware
        Technological knowledge transfer
      ab: Aspects of 2nd‐ to 5th‐century ce Roman production technology and knowledge transfer in southern Austria (known as Noricum) were examined. With no evidence for workshops identified in the study area, 44 grey ware bowls from two sites at Aguntum and Lavant were studied macroscopically, and combined with optical microscopy, X‐ray powder diffraction, prompt gamma activation, neutron activation and scanning electron microscopy, in order to understand whether one (large) workshop supplied these bowls, or whether the bowls were produced by several (small) workshops nearby. Combined with information from the geological background, the results were used to tentatively indicate the production location. The results indicate that the grey ware bowls from Aguntum and Lavant were produced by local workshops nearby. The bowls were manufactured with similar clay sources, tempered with crushed calcite‐marble rocks from the Tauern Window, their surface smoothed and burnished, and fired between 800 and 850°C in a reducing atmosphere of an open fire. This is taken to suggest that Roman potters, who were located at Aguntum and Lavant, shared strategies of raw materials selection, paste preparation, finishing and firing, and transferred technological knowledge through time.
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