ROMAN CERAMIC PRODUCTION SITES AND SHIPWRECKS OF TYRRHENIAN ITALY: FABRICS AND MINERALOGICAL ANALYSES. Immensa Aequora Atlas

The volume presents a part of the results coming from investigations carried out within the Project “IMMENSA AEQUORA – Identifying trade patterns in the Mediterranean Sea in the Hellenistic and Roman periods using new scientific and technological approaches” (www.immensaaequora.org), coordinated by Gloria Olcese. The volume is focused on pottery production sites and shipwrecks (mid 4th century B.C. - 1st century A.D.) in the Tyrrhenian area of Central Italy and is based on a combination of archaeological and archaeometric approaches. The results of mineralogical analyses (thin sections) on pottery samples are combined with a series of specimena of the corresponding macroscopic fabrics, in order to create a visual reference collection of the main ceramic productions in Central and Southern Tyrrhenian Italy.