From Quarries to Rock-cut Sites: Echoes of Stone Crafting

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Anais Lamesa studied Art history and Archaeology at Panthéon-Sorbonne University and Paris-Sorbonne University. She was also a teaching fellow at Paris-Nanterre University then a high school teacher. Subsequently as a PI she managed the Troglopie project (Troglodytisme en Ethiopie) funded by DIM-matériaux anciens et patrimoniaux/ Île-de-France fellowship at the CNRS involving four research institutions (three French ones and an Ethiopian one) and a commercial company. In 2022 she obtained the French diploma of Senior GIS technician. The same year she was appointed as the director of the archaeology department at the French Institute for Anatolian Studies in Istanbul where she is responsible for the establishment of archaeological research programmes and their dissemination in Turkey. She is currently focusing on the region of Cappadocia and working on the sacred landscape of the region the techniques used in its rock-cut monuments and the social aspects relying on the crafting of rock-cutting action. Key publications: Lamesa A. Hailay Atsbha and Saint-Bézar B. (2022). Églises rupestres du Tgray oriental et central. Résultats de prospections et hypothèses techniques et socio-économiques. Annales dÉthiopie XXXV pp.245-296. Bessac J.-Cl. Lamesa A. and Sciuto Cl. (2021). The Archaeology of Quarries and Rock-cut Sites. In: Cl. Sciuto A. Lamesa K. Whitaker and A. Yamaç eds. Carved in Stone. The Archaeology of rock-cut sites and stones quarries Oxford: BAR Publishing pp.1-7. Lamesa A. and Traina G. (2020). LAnatolie : de lépoque archaïque à Byzance. Besançon: ISTA. Lamesa A. (2020). Methods for Rock-hewn Worksite Analysis: Case Study of Göremes n°4b (Cappadocia) Thwarted Worksite. Anatolia Antiqua 28 pp.23-45. https://doi.org/10.4000/anatoliaantiqua.1308 Lamesa A. and Erdoan N. (2020). La nécropole rupestre de Dara (Turquie). De nouvelles perspectives de recherche. In: D. Moreau C.S. Snively A. Guiglia I. Baldini L. Milanovi I. Popovi N. Beaudry and O. Heinrich-Tamáska eds. Archaeology of a World of Changes. Late Roman and Early Byzantine Architecture Sculpture and Landscapes. In Memoriam Claudiae Barsanti. Oxford: BAR publishing pp.105-116. Lamesa A. (2015). La chapelle des Donateurs à Soanl nouvelle fondation de la famille des Sképidès. Anatolia Antiqua 23 pp.179-198. https://doi.org/10.4000/anatoliaantiqua.354 Katy Whitaker is a landscape archaeologist working in heritage research management and protection with Historic England the UK governments advisory body on archaeology and the built environment. Her research into quarrying and stone-working focusses on sarsen stone a silcrete used since the Neolithic in southern Britain. She uses traditional archaeological survey methods together with remotely sensed data and a range of archives in an innovative approach to landscape-scale analysis of extractive industries. Recent publications include collaborative analyses focussed on quarry sources of stone used to build the UNESCO World Heritage Site of Stonehenge whilst two major studies of prehistoric and post-medieval sarsen stone exploitation will be published in 2022. Affiliation: University of Reading and Historic England UK Key publications: Whitaker K.A. 2020. Sarsen Stones in Wessex: A Society of Antiquaries Project contextualised and renewed. The Antiquaries Journal 100 pp.432-456. Nash D.J. Cibarowski J.R. Ullyott J.S. Parker Pearson M. Darvill T. Greaney S. Maniatis G. Whitaker K.A. 2020. Origins of the sarsen megaliths at Stonehenge. Science Advances 6(31) online. https://doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.abc0133 Whitaker K.A. 2019. What if none of the building stones at Stonehenge came from Wiltshire? Oxford Journal of Archaeology 38(2) pp.148-163. Whitaker K.A. 2019. Sarsen stone quarrying in southern England. An Introduction. In A. Teather P. Topping and J. Baczkowski eds. Extracting more than rock? Insights into the acquisition of stone and flint in the Neolithic. Oxford: Neolithic Studies Group Seminar Series 16 pp.101-113. Gabriele Gattiglia is an Associate Professor of Archaeological Methods and Theory at the University of Pisa. His fields of interest regarding Digital Archaeology (mainly Big Data Artificial Intelligence and Open Data) Archaeological Theory and Medieval Postmedieval and Contemporary Archaeology. He coordinates the Winter School R for ARchaeologists dedicated to quantitative methods in Archaeology and works at MAPPA Lab. He has coordinated the H2020 ArchAIDE Project (2016-19) aimed at the automatic recognition of archaeological potsherds through Artificial Intelligence. Currently he participates in the FAIR (Future Artificial Intelligence Research 2023-26) project funded by the Next Generation EU programme. He is a member of the Scientific Committee of the Computer Application in Archaeology (CAA) Association. Claudia Sciuto is a research fellow in environmental archaeology at the University of Pisa Italy. She works on the transformations of quarrying landscapes looking at different environmental proxies. Her focus is on the relationships between geologies and human communities as manifested through the development of technical and social characters. Her work is transdisciplinary since it entails a methodological and theoretical reflection as well as morphological/archaeometric analysis of materials and ethnographic fieldwork. She currently leads a research team for the project Forsaken ecologies which aims at investigating the metamorphoses of cultural landscapes in the Apuan Alps. Current affiliation: Researcher at Pisa University. Key publications: Sciuto C. Cantini F. Chapoulie R. Cou C. De la Codre H. Gattiglia G. Granier X. 2022. What Lies Beyond Sight? Applications of Ultraportable Hyperspectral Imaging (VIS-NIR) for Archaeological Fieldwork. Journal of Field Archaeology pp.1-14. https://doi.org/10.1080/00934690.2022.2135066 Raneri S. Botto A. Campanella B. Momilovi M. Palleschi V. Poggialini F. Sciuto C. 2022. Increasing Resolution in Chemical Mapping of Geomaterials: From X-Ray Fluorescence to Laser-Induced Breakdown Spectroscopy. Spectrochimica Acta Part B: Atomic Spectroscopy 194 online. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.sab.2022.106482 Raneri S. Sciuto C. 2021. Archeometria da campo quando il laboratorio arriva sullo scavo. In: F. Cantini ed. Sisto Project 2020. Archeologia dei centri del potere pubblico nel centro di Pisa Archeologia Medievale XLVIII pp.9-109. Sciuto C. 2021. Racconti di pietre. Lapplicazione di metodi archeometrici portatili allo studio dei paesaggi. In D. Gangale Risoleo and I. Raimondo eds. Landscape. Una sintesi di elementi diacronici. Nuove metodologie per lanalisi di un territorio. Oxford: BAR Publishing pp.121-132. Bessac J.-C. Lamesa A. Sciuto C. 2021. The archaeology of quarries and rock-cut sites. In: C. Sciuto A. Lamesa K. Whitaker A. Yamac eds. Carved in stone. The archaeology of rock-cut sites and quarries. Oxford: BAR Publishing pp.1-7. Marie-Elise Porqueddu is a PhD in Prehistory and a post-doctoral researcher at the École des hautes études hispaniques et ibériques Casa de Velázquez (Spain). Her research focuses on carving savoir-faire and Neolithic underground architectures (mining sites and rock-cut tombs) in the Western Mediterranean. Current affiliation 2022-2023: Scientific member (post-doctoral) at the École des hautes études hispaniques et ibériques Casa de Velázquez (Spain) / Researcher affiliated to Aix Marseille Univ CNRS Minist Culture LAMPEA Aix-en-Provence (France) Past affiliation 2020-2022: Experimental Laboratory LAEX of the Universidad Autónoma de Madrid (Spain) Fyssen Foundation post-doctoral grant. Key publications: Porqueddu M.E. Bailly M. Margarit X. Fallavollita P. and Melis M.G. 2021. From Surfaces to Tools: Traceology and Experimental Analysis of Digging Techniques of Mediterranean Rock-Cut Tombs. In: C. Sciuto A. Lamesa K. Whitaker A. Yamaç eds. Carved in Stone. The archaeology of rock-cut sites and stone quarries. Oxford: BAR Publishing pp.9-22. Porqueddu M.E. 2019. De loutil à la représentation du collectif ? Le dépôt du macro-outillage de creusement dans les cavités artificielles funéraires au Néolithique. Techniques & Culture online. http://journals.openedition.org/tc/10786 Porqueddu M.E. 2018. Bâtir sous terre : Architectures et techniques des sépultures collectives hypogées de Méditerranée occidentale à la fin de la Préhistoire. Unpublished PhD Thesis Aix-Marseille Université Università di Sassari https://www.theses.fr/2018AIXM0347 Porqueddu M.E. 2016. Lo studio delle tecniche di escavazione degli ipoegi funerari preistorici: un nuovo approccio metodologico a SElighe Entosu. In: M.G. Melis ed. Usini. Nuove ricerche a SElighe Entosu Quaderni del LaPArS pp.139-171. Melis M.G. and Porqueddu M.E. 2015. New documentation on digging techniques of the prehistoric funerary hypogea of the western Mediterranean. Origini XXXVII pp.129-150.