ArcheomGIS: approccio GIS allo studio archeometrico della ceramica protostorica del Veneto

ArcheomGIS : a GIS approach to the archaeometric study of the protohistoric ceramic production from Veneto - even though the study of the pre- and protohistoric italian ceramic technology by archaeometric analysis had in the past few interest, by the time it has revealed its potential in the identification of the main technological features and in the reconstruction of exchange or trade system of the ancient communities. At the present time in the Veneto region, this approach of study regards few archaeological contexts and sometimes with small ceramic samplings. The analysis concerned both single site and some micro-regional areas (i.e. the Adige and Po plain or Garda Lake). The chronological framework of the analysed pottery (mainly using OM, XRD and XRF), published up-to-date, cover a period comprised between Early Bronze and 2nd Iron Age and regards mostly settlements (the ceramic samples from cemeteries are very few) placed on different and various geological and geomorphological conformations. The present work is intended to offer a view of the available archaeometry data in Veneto, to discriminate potential technological characteristics, to identify possible ceramic exchange and to distinguish synchronically and diachronically the modus operandi of the ancient potters in a heterogeneous geo-lithological territory. One excellent instrument of combining these different kinds of data (archaeological and archaeometric) is through the use of an “open source” Geographci Information System (GIS), whose application is here submitted.