Giusi Sorrentino

Università degli Studi di Torino | UNITO

The pursuit of a quantitative approach to functional analysis of stone tools is an ongoing endeavour for traceologists. Technological advancements in 3D imaging techniques, such as photogrammetry/3D scanners, CT scanning, 3D digital microscopy, confocal microscopy, AFM and FEG-SEM and micro-topographical scanning, have greatly facilitated the detai...

This article presents an analytical procedure developed to replicate, document, and analyse the formation and evolution of use-wear traces on task-specific ground stone tools. The purpose of this study is to build a reference collection for wear patterns that occurred during the processing of vegetal resources, specifically those compatible with th...

A selection of five ground stones from Pontic Steppe sites dating back to the Early Upper Palaeolithic (EUP) was used as test-cases to be analysed by combining wear-traces and use-related biogenic residues (U-RBR). The artifacts studied can be termed “legacy” objects, excavated even many decades ago and kept in museum storage facilities. This type...

Recent advances in the role played by dietary carbohydrates in human food webs during the Palaeolithic highlight that starchy foods were part of the diet well before crop domestication. Although certain plants can be eaten raw, intentional processing such as mechanical reduction using stone tools and thermal treatment readily increases the assimila...

This study is applied to the unique grinding stone from Surein I retrieved in the Aurignacian layers of the rockshelter located in the south of the Crimea Peninsula. Our research enables us (i) to make reliable inference on the agency establishing the functional modification on the surface of the Surein I grinding stone, (ii) to demonstrate this gr...

Archaeological science adopts scientific techniques from different fields, such as biology, chemistry and geology, and applies them to the study of the human past. Even though there are many books with archaeological activities for children available, these are restricted to archaeological excavation, typological methods and other ‘traditional’ arc...

Οι αρχαιολογικές επιστήμες υιοθετούν επιστημονικές προσεγγίσεις από διαφορετικούς τομείς, όπως η βιολογία, η χημεία και η γεωλογία, στα πλαίσια της μελέτης του ανθρώπινου παρελθόντος. Παρότι υπάρχουν πολλά βιβλία με αρχαιολογικές δραστηριότητες για μαθητές, αυτά εστιάζουν στην ανασκαφή, την τυπολογία και άλλες ‘παραδοσιακές’ μεθόδους, ενώ περιέχουν...

Direct evidence for the intentional processing of starch-rich plants during the Paleolithic is scant, and that evidence is often compromised by concerns over preservation and contamination. Our integrated, multimodal approach couples wear-trace analysis with chemical imaging methods to identify the presence of genuine ancient starch candidates (ASC...

The paper presents an innovative approach to the identification and characterisation of use-wear traces on Aurignacian ground stones (GSTs) which were used to process plants in order to get staple food. It is based on the integration of qualitative visual analysis of the micro-topography of stones’ surfaces, in order to preliminarily delineate func...

This track of the SHREC 2018 originally aimed at recognizing relief patterns over a set of triangle meshes from laser scan acquisitions of archaeological fragments. This track approaches a lively and very challenging problem that remains open after the end of the track. In this report we discuss the challenges to face to successfully address geomet...

The paper presents an innovative approach to the identification and characterisation of use-wear traces on Aurignacian ground stones (GSTs) which were used to process plants in order to get staple food. It is based on the integration of qualitative visual analysis of the micro-topography of stones’ surfaces, in order to preliminarily delineate func...

Available online xxxx During the 13 th and 12 th centuries BCE, Dromolaxia-Vyzakia (Hala Sultan Tekke) was a flourishing coastal settlement located at the shores of the Larnaca salt lake and for this reason the site has attracted a great deal of scholarly interest. Evidence of ceramic, ivory and metal manufacturing processes supports the belief tha...