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Excavation

  • Trasanello Cementificio
  • Trasanello
  • Trasanello
  • Italy
  • Basilicate
  • Province of Matera
  • Matera

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    MIBAC (Ministero per i Beni e le Attività Culturali - Direzione Generale per i Beni Archeologici),

    ICCD (Istituto Centrale per il Catalogo e la Documentazione) and

    AIAC (Associazione Internazionale di Archeologia Classica).

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Summary (English)

  • During this campaign, work continued in Trench VII and two new trenches were opened: IX and X.
    Trench VII – in 2013, the excavation of the ditch fill was almost completed with the removal of the lower layers US 5 and 6, which produced abundant impressed and thin-lined grafitto pottery of the “Matera-Ostuni” type, datable to a late phase of the early Neolithic period. Two sondages were dug in order to check the depletion of the fill, in which a completely sterile layer emerged that had a compact silt matrix with yellowish-brown carbonate concretions and small blocks of calcarenite and limestone (US 14). This layer was at the bottom of the trench, whose original morphology was irregular, as it had been altered by concretionary action.

    TRENCH IX – (2.5 m E-W x 6m N-S) situated east of trench VII. The surface layer was removed and the layers of fill excavated, from the top:
    -US 1(removed) layer with blackish, rather loose clay-silty matrix. It was characterised by a concentration of calcarenite blocks along the inner face of the ditch and towards the central part of the fill. In the upper part there was very little archaeological material, while the lower part (US 1 base) contained fragments of plain pottery with red painted bands.
    -US 2 ( _in situ ) a compact concretion on the inner edge of the ditch, made up of calcarenite blocks cemented to the ditch wall.
    -US 3 (removed) a crumbly, yellowish-light brown sandy-silty layer with small calcarenite blocks. Very little archaeological material. The edge with US 4 not clear.
    -US 5 (partially excavated in c.10 cm spits: spits 1 and 2) a loose, brown clay-silt layer with abundant calcarenite blocks. It contained impasto pottery, lithics and faunal remains. The fill was partially covered by the concretion on the internal edge (US 2).
    TRENCH X (3.5 m E-W x 4 m N-S) situated west of Trench VII. Layers from the top:
    -US 1 (removed) dark brown, loose clay-silt matrix with an abundant skeleton formed by medium and small calcarenite blocks and sporadic limestone blocks. Heavily disturbed by roots and a rodent burrow.
    -US 2 ( _in situ ) a compact concretion on the interior edge of the ditch, constituted by large calcarenite blocks cemented to the ditch wall.
    -US 4 loose concretion on the external edge of the ditch made up of hard, compact sediment with small calcarenite blocks and a looser and incoherent sediment. Scarce archaeological material.

  • Lucia Angeli - Dipartimento di Civiltà e Forme del Sapere, Università di Pisa 

Director

  • Giovanna Radi - Dipartimento di Civiltà e Forme del Sapere, Università di Pisa

Team

  • Giacomo Nerici - Dipartimento di Civiltà e Forme del Sapere, Università di Pisa
  • Gianbattista Marras - Dipartimento di Civiltà e Forme del Sapere, Università di Pisa
  • Giovannitti Piera - Dipartimento di Civiltà e Forme del Sapere, Università di Pisa
  • Jacopo Conforti - Dipartimento di Civiltà e Forme del Sapere, Università di Pisa
  • Lazzaroni Roberto - Dipartimento di Civiltà e Forme del Sapere, Università di Pisa
  • Marcella Parisi - Dipartimento di Civiltà e Forme del Sapere, Università di Pisa
  • Raffaella Milano - Dipartimento di Civiltà e Forme del Sapere, Università di Pisa
  • Lucia Angeli - Dipartimento di Civiltà e Forme del Sapere, Università di Pisa
  • Gianfranco Lionetti - Museo Archeologico Nazionale Domenico Ridola, Soprintendenza per i Beni Archeologici della Basilicata

Research Body

  • Dipartimento di Civiltà e Forme del Sapere, Università di Pisa

Funding Body

  • Italcementi Group

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