Archaeomagnetic dating techniques have been applied to constraint the age of kilns from five archaeological sites in Catalonia (NE Spain). The SCHA.DIF.3K regional archaeomagnetic model and the secular variation curve for the Iberian Peninsula were used. Three sites (Vil·la de Barenys, La Buada and Collet de Sant Antoni) produced typologically datable artifacts and the archaeomagnetic-direction […]

The construction of the Aswan Dam put an end to a form of relationship between people and the environment that had its origin in the pre-Pharaonic period. The annual Nile flood had been tamed and managed for centuries by the societies of the Nile delta. However, by the nineteenth century, attempts to modernize Egypt according […]

A very accurate archaeological dating of a Roman site in NE Spain (El Vila-sec) has been undertaken based on the typology of ceramic artifacts. Three different phases have been identified with activity ranging from the last quarter of the 1st century BC to the early-3rd century AD. Analyses on bricks from kilns of El Vila-sec […]