A few regional projects in various European countries have recently been launched for the characterization of lithic resources including the creation of geo-referenced lithoteques that have been designed according to shared scientific protocols. Italy is still lacking such tools for systematizing research in the field and enhancing our knowledge of knappable materials. OPENLIT research project aims to build up the core of the first Italian open access lithoteque, a reference collection of knappable rocks based on a multi-parametric GIS-based database. The goal of this project is to develop a standard analytical descriptive system for defining knappable rocks, based on laboratory testing, and to make it available to the scientific community through an open access repository aimed at data sharing and dissemination. The first step in achieving this goal consists in organizing a large set of information on knappable rocks available to prehistoric communities in Italy. Various lithoteques of knappable rocks from different Italian regions are currently stored in Italian University labs. These lithoteques have been assembled over time by several researchers with different methodological approaches and are not always accessible to scholars and students. Starting from cherts, OPENLIT will provide the scientific community with a powerful, open and implementable research tool aimed at depicting the availability of knappable rocks in some key-territories in Italy. The open access repository will host the shared lithoteque and the geo-samples mapping as part of a WebGIS platform. For the first time data will be analysed at a national level with a shared approach combining different methodologies. Macroscopic, petrographic and compositional characterization of selected geological chert will provide target values to establish reference groups for further comparisons with prehistoric collections from both the Italian peninsula and neighbouring territories.
THE OPENLIT PROJECT: A FIRST STEP FOR AN OPEN ACCESS LITHOTHEQUE OF ITALIAN KNAPPABLE ROCKS / alba patrizia santo. - ELETTRONICO. - (2024), pp. 0-0. (Intervento presentato al convegno 30th Annual Meeting of the European Association of Archaeologists tenutosi a Roma nel Agosto 2024).
THE OPENLIT PROJECT: A FIRST STEP FOR AN OPEN ACCESS LITHOTHEQUE OF ITALIAN KNAPPABLE ROCKS
alba patrizia santo
2024
Abstract
A few regional projects in various European countries have recently been launched for the characterization of lithic resources including the creation of geo-referenced lithoteques that have been designed according to shared scientific protocols. Italy is still lacking such tools for systematizing research in the field and enhancing our knowledge of knappable materials. OPENLIT research project aims to build up the core of the first Italian open access lithoteque, a reference collection of knappable rocks based on a multi-parametric GIS-based database. The goal of this project is to develop a standard analytical descriptive system for defining knappable rocks, based on laboratory testing, and to make it available to the scientific community through an open access repository aimed at data sharing and dissemination. The first step in achieving this goal consists in organizing a large set of information on knappable rocks available to prehistoric communities in Italy. Various lithoteques of knappable rocks from different Italian regions are currently stored in Italian University labs. These lithoteques have been assembled over time by several researchers with different methodological approaches and are not always accessible to scholars and students. Starting from cherts, OPENLIT will provide the scientific community with a powerful, open and implementable research tool aimed at depicting the availability of knappable rocks in some key-territories in Italy. The open access repository will host the shared lithoteque and the geo-samples mapping as part of a WebGIS platform. For the first time data will be analysed at a national level with a shared approach combining different methodologies. Macroscopic, petrographic and compositional characterization of selected geological chert will provide target values to establish reference groups for further comparisons with prehistoric collections from both the Italian peninsula and neighbouring territories.
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