Analisi sui Materiali per l’Archeologia e i Beni Culturali

Language

Italian

Type

Participation to the conference as attendee

Teacher

• Annaluisa Pedrotti; Fabio Santaniello, Dipartimento di Lettere e Filosofia, Università di Trento.
• Stefano Gialanella; Evgeny Borovin; Mauro Bortolotti; Angela Berloffa, Dipartimento di Ingegneria Industriale, Università di Trento.
• Giacomo Chiari, Getty Conservation Institute, Los Angeles
• Marco Zanatta, Dipartimento di Fisica, Università di Trento.
• Vincenzo Palleschi, Applied and Laser Spectroscopy Lab – CNR – Pisa
• Stefano Enzo, Dipartimento di Chimica e Farmacia – Università di Sassari

Where

Scuola di Alta Formazione “Analisi sui materiali per l’archeologia e i beni culturali”, organized by Laboratorio Bagolini di Archeologia, Archeometria e Fotografia del Centro di Alti Studi Umanistici (CeASUm), within the project “Dipartimento di Eccellenza”, Dipartimento di Lettere e Filosofia e Laboratorio Beni Culturali del Dipartimento di Ingegneria Industriale, in collaboration with Dipartimento di Fisica, Università di Trento.

When

10-12 February 2021

Description of the activity

The course was organized by the Doctoral School of Trento University (Italy) and was held in Italian. At its third edition, the school “Materials Analysis for Archaeology and Cultural Heritage – AMARCH2021” focused on main experimental techniques based on X-rays, which use the phenomena of diffraction (XRD – X-ray diffraction) and fluorescence (XRF – X-ray fluorescence). Because of its specific characteristics, X-ray radiation is widely used as a probe for the characterisation of materials, and in the field of archaeology and cultural heritage, XRD and XRF techniques open up important possibilities for non-destructive analysis.

The school opened with a session dedicated to the perspectives of material analysis in Cultural Heritage. Lectures on the fundamentals and applications of XRF and XRD techniques were presented, followed by laboratory sessions involving the real-time acquisition and processing of XRF and XRD data.

The school is organised by the Bagolini Laboratory of Archaeology, Archaeometry and Photography of the Centro Alti Studi Umanistici (CeASUM), as part of the “Department of Excellence” project of the Department of Humanities, and by the Cultural Heritage Laboratory of the Department of Industrial Engineering in collaboration with the Department of Physics, University of Trento. It was aimed at researchers working in the field of archaeological and cultural heritage research, with a focus on: PhD students, staff of Museum Authorities and Superintendencies.

Main topics

• Contribution of X techniques in materials analysis for archaeology and cultural heritage
• Materials structures and chemistry
• X-Ray Fluorescence Spectrometry (XRF)
• Applied and Laser Spectroscopy
• XRF data analysis and processing

Certificate of attendance