This paper is about a database and GIS project concerning the study of the quarrying, circulation and use of stones extracted in Regio X (Venetia et Histria) during the Roman age. The project aims at taking a census of the ancient quarries of this area, and at registering and comparing artefacts, structures and infrastructures made of stones extracted in this region. To attain this goal, a specific database has been developed: it links extraction basins and related quarries, artefacts and structural elements, as well as samples taken from archaeological finds and from quarries. Thanks to the integration of the database with GIS mapping software, interesting reconstructions of commercial fluxes of stones extracted in Regio X have been done, useful for a better understanding of the economic relationships between ancient cities and the surrounding territories. In the past few years, this tool has been used to collect published and unpublished archaeological and archaeometric data about Euganean trachyte, one of the most significant stones quarried in Regio X. The database has proven useful and has contributed to the obtaining of an integrated study of the chronology of the samples, the quarries of provenance and the cities of final destination and to reflections about the commercial dynamics of Euganean trachyte in Roman Northern Italy.

A Database and GIS project about quarrying, circulation and use of stone during the Roman age in Regio X - Venetia et Histria. The case study of the Euganean trachyte

C. Previato;A. Zara
2018

Abstract

This paper is about a database and GIS project concerning the study of the quarrying, circulation and use of stones extracted in Regio X (Venetia et Histria) during the Roman age. The project aims at taking a census of the ancient quarries of this area, and at registering and comparing artefacts, structures and infrastructures made of stones extracted in this region. To attain this goal, a specific database has been developed: it links extraction basins and related quarries, artefacts and structural elements, as well as samples taken from archaeological finds and from quarries. Thanks to the integration of the database with GIS mapping software, interesting reconstructions of commercial fluxes of stones extracted in Regio X have been done, useful for a better understanding of the economic relationships between ancient cities and the surrounding territories. In the past few years, this tool has been used to collect published and unpublished archaeological and archaeometric data about Euganean trachyte, one of the most significant stones quarried in Regio X. The database has proven useful and has contributed to the obtaining of an integrated study of the chronology of the samples, the quarries of provenance and the cities of final destination and to reflections about the commercial dynamics of Euganean trachyte in Roman Northern Italy.
2018
ASMOSIA XI. Interdisciplianry Studies on Ancient Stones, Proceedings of the XI International Conference of ASMOSIA (Split, 18-22 May 2015)
ASMOSIA XI. Interdisciplianry Studies on Ancient Stones
978-953-6617-49-4
978-953-6116-75-1
978-953-6617-51-7
978-953-6116-79-9
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