OPENAIRE OpenAire CORE (RIOXX-UK Aggregator) Sygma Archivio istituzionale della ricerca - Università di Cagliari UnpayWall Archivio della Ricerca - Università di Pisa Hindawi Publishing Corporation DOAJ Crossref Microsoft Academic Graph CNR ExploRA European Union Open Data Portal https://eprints.whiterose.ac.uk/130462/1/9736547.pdf https://iris.unica.it/bitstream/11584/248342/2/Ramacciotti%20et%20al%202018.pdf https://arpi.unipi.it/bitstream/11568/935316/1/P101%20Chronological%20Classification%20of%20Ancient%20Mortars.pdf https://doi.org/10.1155/2018/9736547 Journal of Spectroscopy Open Access 2018-05-09 2018-06-30 2018-11-26 <?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?><article><p>Forty-two mortar samples, from two archaeological excavations located in Sagunto (Valencian Community, Spain), were analysed by both portable energy dispersive X-ray fluorescence spectroscopy (pED-XRF) and inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometry (ICP-MS) to determine major and minor elements and traces including rare earth elements (REEs). Collected data were crossed with those previously obtained from Sagunto Castle mortars, and principal component analysis (PCA) was applied to discriminate the construction phases of the unearthed buildings. REE permitted to ascribe most of the masonries to the Roman Imperial period. Moreover, a statistical model was built by employing partial least squares discriminant analysis (PLS-DA) in order to classify the mortars from Roman Imperial period and from Islamic period due to the problematic overlapping between these two phases. Results confirmed the effectiveness of the developed indirect chronology method, based on REE data, to discriminate among historic mortars from different construction periods on a wide scale including different Sagunto archaeological sites.</p></article> 2. Zero hunger 0601 history and archaeology QC350-467 06 humanities and the arts Optics. Light energy dispersive X-ray fluorescence spectroscopy (pED-XRF); inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometry (ICP-MS) Analytical Chemistry; Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics; Spectroscopy Sonia Rubio, Marco Lezzerini, Ángel Morales-Rubio, A. Pastor, Mirco Ramacciotti, Emilia Hernandez, Gianni Gallello, Gianni Gallello, Stefano Columbu, M. de la Guardia, 2018-01-01 journalpaper <?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?><article><p>Forty-two mortar samples, from two archaeological excavations located in Sagunto (Valencian Community, Spain), were analysed by both portable energy dispersive X-ray fluorescence spectroscopy (pED-XRF) and inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometry (ICP-MS) to determine major and minor elements and traces including rare earth elements (REEs). Collected data were crossed with those previously obtained from Sagunto Castle mortars, and principal component analysis (PCA) was applied to discriminate the construction phases of the unearthed buildings. REE permitted to ascribe most of the masonries to the Roman Imperial period. Moreover, a statistical model was built by employing partial least squares discriminant analysis (PLS-DA) in order to classify the mortars from Roman Imperial period and from Islamic period due to the problematic overlapping between these two phases. Results confirmed the effectiveness of the developed indirect chronology method, based on REE data, to discriminate among historic mortars from different construction periods on a wide scale including different Sagunto archaeological sites.</p></article> Chronological Classification of Ancient Mortars Employing Spectroscopy and Spectrometry Techniques: Sagunto (Valencia, Spain) Case 10.1155/2018/9736547 704709