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Archaeomagnetic Dating of Three Furnaces inside the Middle Age Settlement of San Genesio (San Miniato, Pisa, Italy)

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  • Claudia Principe

    (Istituto di Geoscienze e Georisorse, Laboratorio di Archeomagnetismo, IGG-CNR, 55049 Viareggio, Italy)

  • Avto Goguitchaichvili

    (Servicio Arqueomagnetico Nacional, Instituto de Geofisica—Campus Morelia, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM), Ciudad Universitaria, 58190 Morelia, Mexico
    Current address: Geophysics, Department of Physics, University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB T6G 2E1, Canada.)

  • Marina Devidze

    (M. Nodia Institute of Geophysics, Ivane Javakhishvili Tbilisi State University, 0162 Tbilisi, Georgia)

  • Sonia La Felice

    (Istituto di Geoscienze e Georisorse, Laboratorio di Archeomagnetismo, IGG-CNR, 55049 Viareggio, Italy)

  • Ruben Cejudo

    (Laboratorio Universitario de Geofísica Ambiental, Instituto de Geofísica—Campus Morelia, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM), Ciudad Universitaria, 58190 Morelia, Mexico)

  • Juan Morales

    (Servicio Arqueomagnetico Nacional, Instituto de Geofisica—Campus Morelia, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM), Ciudad Universitaria, 58190 Morelia, Mexico)

  • Federico Cantini

    (Dipartimento di Civiltà e Forme del Sapere, University of Pisa, 56124 Pisa, Italy)

Abstract

Archaeomagnetic dating using full geomagnetic vector was performed on three furnaces cropping out at San Genesio archaeological zone, an ancient settlement located in the Arno River plain, near San Miniato (Pisa). The first evidence of human presence in this area dates back to the period between the VI century BCE and 1248 CE, when the village of San Genesio was destroyed by the inhabitants of the nearby castle of San Miniato. Three burned structures were located at different stratigraphic levels. The SGEN01 represents a kiln to produce pottery. The SGEN02 is probably a furnace for domestic use, while the SGEN03 is interpreted as a metallurgic kiln due to the presence of some hematite fragments possibly coming from Elba Island. Both mean paleodirections and absolute intensity were compared with the global geomagnetic model SCHA.DIF4K (Pavón-Carrasco et al., 2021) for Europe. The obtained age intervals at the 65% probability are 846-911 CE for SGEN01, 696-799 CE for SGEN02, and 623-644 CE for SGEN03. These new absolute dates agree well with their archaeological/stratigraphic position and with the history of the archaeological place.

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  • Claudia Principe & Avto Goguitchaichvili & Marina Devidze & Sonia La Felice & Ruben Cejudo & Juan Morales & Federico Cantini, 2022. "Archaeomagnetic Dating of Three Furnaces inside the Middle Age Settlement of San Genesio (San Miniato, Pisa, Italy)," Land, MDPI, vol. 11(11), pages 1-17, October.
    • Handle: RePEc:gam:jlands:v:11:y:2022:i:11:p:1936-:d:958381
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