Arheologie și fizică nucleară. O perspectivă interdisciplinară
Archeology and Nuclear Physics. An Interdisciplinary Approach

Summary/Abstract: This paper is a brief account of my doctoral project which aims to analyze a substantial batch of prehistoric fragments and vessels from the Iron Gates area with the help of computed tomography, their precise chronological contextualization by means of a significant set of 14C data (cca. 80). In finally, I propose, pertinent conclusions regarding the technology of modelling ceramic vessels (with direct references to the various studied ages) as well as the recipe of the clay mixture from which they were made. Both computed tomography and 14C will be performed at IFIN-HH. In the introduction, a brief review of the history of the latter institution, founded as an institute of the Romanian Academy, will be made. Numerous restructuring and name changes have led to the present institutional structure. The ceramic assemblage comes from archaeological sites investigated during the construction of the two hydropower plants at Iron Gates I and II (1964-1971, 1977-1984) and are part of the collections curated at the „Vasile Pârvan” Institute of Archaeology of the Romanian Academy, where I conduct my PhD. The periods of interest are the Early Neolithic, the Early Bronze Age, the Dacian period, the late medieval period. The present work represents an exemplification, on materials worked up to now, of the potential of using computed tomography (advantages and limitations of the method) in the study of prehistoric ceramics.

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