Francesca GrassiUniversidad del País Vasco / Euskal Herriko Unibertsitatea | UPV/EHU · Departamento de Geografía, Prehistoria y Arqueología
Francesca Grassi
University of Siena (Italy). PhD Medieval Archaeology. Advisors prof. Riccardo Francovich, Alessandra Molinari
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July 2015 - July 2017
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- Fellow
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- The formation of the state in Early Medieval Castile: craft production and social complexity”, Programma Europeo Horizon2020, Ricerca e Innovazione (Contratto N. 656540).
January 2010 - January 2012
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- Fellow
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- Le produzioni ceramiche delle Colline Metallifere: studio tipologico ed archeometrico delle ceramiche altomedievali (VIII-X secolo) del villaggio di Cugnano (Gr) e di Monterotondo-Rocca degli Alberti (Gr)”.
September 2001 - May 2005
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- PhD Student
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- Gli apparati produttivi, i mercati ed il consumo della ceramica nella Toscana meridionale (VIII-XIV secolo): il confronto tra siti rurali e urbani”. Tutori prof. R. Francovich, A. Molinari.
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Este volumen recoge los resultados de la intervención arqueológica realizada entre los años 2005-2009 en el despoblado medieval situado en la colina alavesa de Zornostil o los altos de Zornostegui, identificable con el poblado medieval de Zornoztegi. Con anterioridad se habían realizado durante los años 2001-2003 una serie de prospecciones intensiv...
This is the first book entirely devoted to the archaeometric study of medieval pottery in Spain, which includes thirteen papers and an introduction focused on methodological issues, as well as single research projects on medieval pottery scoping different regions within Spain such as Galicia, Basque Country, Andalusia, Canarias, Castile, and Leon,...
This article deals with the theme of archeometry and its application to the analysis of pottery with the aim of analyzing its limits and potentialities and reflect on greater conscious use of archeometric analysis. In particular, an analysis of the archeology and archaeometry relationship is performed, in the order to highlight the differences at E...
In questo articolo si presentano alcuni risultati di un ampio progetto in corso dal 2015 presso l'Università dei Paesi Baschi, all'interno del gruppo di ricerca GIPyPAC (Grupo de Investigación en Patrimonio y Paisajes Culturales). Il progetto, con l'acronimo "Earmed-Castile", si svolge nell'ambito del Programma Horizon2020 ed è parte delle Azioni M...
El objetivo de esta contribución es evaluar crítica y comparativamente la complejidad social y económica de las comunidades rurales de dos territorios europeos, la región de Toledo en el centro de España, y la Toscana meridional, a través del análisis de los sistemas de producción, distribución y consumo de cerámica doméstica.
Tras revisar el estad...
The EARMEDCASTILE project, based at the University of the Basque Country, has received funding from the European Union's Horizon 2020 Research and Innovation Programme, Marie Sklodowska-Curie Action (grant agreement 656540); http://earmedcastile.blogspot.com ).
La ceramica di epoca medievale raccolta durante lo scavo del monastero di San Quirico si compone di 3393 frammenti e si colloca in un arco cronologico dall'XI secolo al XIV secolo. Tra questi reperti si può calcolare un'alta percentuale di residualità, dato che circa la metà della restituzione cera-mica e la stessa pietra ollare (1730 frammenti) pr...
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This paper, which compares two groups of rural villages in north-western Spain and central Italy, is inspired by the first results of the research project Earmedcastile, currently ongoing at the University of the Ba...
Until today, the evidences about the diffusion of coated bricks in Siena reported to the late XV century [1]. Six coated bricks from the Cathedral of Siena have been thus extensively studied in order to evaluate a possible older origin of the manufacture of colored tiles in the sienese context. The samples consist of some monochrome tiles of differ...
This paper shows the application of an integrated approach to the study of the use of ceramic wares and of the food prepared and consumed in the Medieval Hospital of Santa Maria della Scala in Siena (Central Italy). This approach takes into account data obtained by the archaeological and archaeometrical study of ceramic vessels and the investigatio...
The Colline Metallifere district (southern Tuscany, Italy) has been for centuries, at least from the Etruscan period, a major producer of iron, base- and precious metals. In the Middle Ages exploitation was particularly focused on Cu-Pb-Ag(Zn) deposits for coin production. Starting from the IX-X cent. AD a number of castles were built by aristocrat...
Six samples of coated bricks ( les) from Siena’s Cathedral have been analyzed and preliminary results are presented in this study. Coated bricks were used extensively in Italy during the 15th and 16th century, although early produc on of les, coated according to the ‘archaic’ majolica techniques, is a ested in the Mediterranean basin since the 12th...
Sixty-three pottery samples from two different urban contexts have been analyzed in order to better understand the diffusion and the possible evolution of the technological skills of the Sienese 'archaic' majolica during the Middle Ages. Samples from the first context, dating back to the 13 th and 14 th century, are from houses of nobility situated...
The aim of this volume is the presentation of eleven years of archaeological research carried out by the University of Siena at the castle of Rocchette Pannocchieschi (Grosseto, Italy), located in southern Tuscany. The research, starting from the distribution of the Middle Ages settlement in this area, the “Metalliferous Hills”, focuses on the spec...
In this paper the changes in production and consumption of pottery in Tuscany at the end of the 10 th and 13 th century are illustrated. For the first time the whole region is studied, analyzing all the pottery classes, based on data obtained from 121 sites, including urban and rural settlements. This has allowed us to identify similarities and dif...
Introduzione Il castello di Cugnano si trova al centro del massiccio collinare denominato "Colline Metallifere" nella parte meridionale della Toscana, in un territorio caratterizzato dalla presenza di numerosi affioramenti minerari. La storia del sito è legata allo sfruttamento dei filoni polimetallici presenti intorno al castello e in particolare...
Il presente contributo prende in esame i materiali provenienti da alcuni siti riconosciuti come luoghi di produzione ceramica, attribuiti ad un arco cronologico scandito in due fasi: la prima compresa tra fine V e la prima metà del VII sec. e la seconda compresa tra metà VII e fine X secolo. Queste testimonianze costituiscono una fonte di ecceziona...
Archaeometric investigation allowed the characterization of two important classes of ceramics: ‘vetrina sparsa’ and ‘invetriata grezza’. Their archaeological peculiarity makes them particularly suited for tracing the evolution of glaze manufacturing in southern Tuscany throughout the medieval period (10th–14th centuries). These ceramics were found...
2 INTRODUZIONE Dopo una interruzione durata alcune stagioni, a partire dal Maggio 2000 il Dipartimento di Archeolo-gia dell'Università di Siena ha ripreso le indagini ar-cheologiche al castello di Montemassi; i nuovi saggi hanno sensibilmente ampliato l'area di scavo già defi-nita dalle campagne avviate a partire dal 1990 e pro-seguite fino al 1994...
1. Lo scavo del castello di Rocca San Silvestro (da ora in poi RSS) (Fig. 1) (1984-1994), è stato oggetto di numerose pub-blicazioni sotto forma di rapporto preliminare, di resoconto esaustivo, di presentazioni divulgative ed anche di alcuni ap-profondimenti tematici su singoli aspetti. In particolare i dati di scavo hanno fornito informazioni di g...
