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The incorporation of new technologies in archaeological studies allows us to offer a new vision of the past, discover and generate data that draw a new dimension and understand the objects related to the ancient world, launching us into a "MATRIX" universe where new codes need be deciphered. The aim of this lecture is to find out what the X-ray, RAMAN and Spectroradiometer analyses are for when studying archaeological materials (ceramics, bone, stone, paint, metals, etc.).
Brief CV
Gianni Gallello, distinguished researcher at the Department of Prehistory, Archeology and Ancient History of the University of Valencia. Doctorate in 2014 from the University of Valencia, during the last ten years his research activity has focused on the chemical analysis of different archaeological materials. He has innovated new methodological approaches to overcome some of the most significant problems that the archaeological community has faced in the field of sunprints from ancient human activity, contamination of bone remains, origins of lithic materials, origins of raw materials in mortars, provenance of ceramics and identification of organic materials in ancient objects. Gianni has a background in analytical chemistry and a wide range of practical and analytical skills acquired working in the disciplines of Archaeology, Biology, Geology and Analytical Chemistry.
Gallello was a Marie Curie Research Fellow (2016-2018) at the University of York (UK) with the MATRIX project funded by the European Commission (Horizon 2020). In 2014, Gianni founded ArchaeChemis (www.uv.es/archaechemis) at the University of Valencia, designed as a chemical analysis unit for research and technology transfer aimed at both research groups and non-academic organizations dedicated to the study of the past.
More information
- ArchaeChemis
- The ArchaeChemis laboratory applies and innovative method to evaluate the conservation of the archaeological heritage in Persepolis
- The cause of death of two important humanists from the Italian Renaissance has been identified
- A new methodology with chemical and physical analysis differenciates the Ibero-Roman ceramic fragments from the Punic ones
- Chemical analysis of rare soils used to know the human activity in the Cocina Cave of Dos Aguas
- The first Iberian lead plate found in a regulated excavation in the Pico de los Ajos in Yátova is in archaic writing
- A mobile application will compare archaeological materials through their chemical composition
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- @ArchaeChemis
- @ArqueologiaUV
- @FacGeoiH
- @CdCienciaUV
- @MednightGTS
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Stimulating scientific vocations is a project of the Scientific Culture and Innovation Unit of the University of Valencia, which has co-funding from the Spanish Foundation for Science and Technology and the Ministry of Science, Innovation and Universities.
