Calcareous Mortars, Plasters and Floors

Stoops, Georges; Canti, Matthew; Kapur, Selım

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“…Lime mortar floors provide a hard, water-repellent and hygienic surface that would have been advantageous in a wet, tropical environment. Common types of temper, such as burnt and unburnt clays and plant remains (Figure 4d-e), improve the hardness and tensile strength of lime mortars (Stoops et al 2017). Occasional inclusions of ceramic, bone, shell and coprolite fragments (Figure S2i-l) in the Loc Giang floors suggest that the inhabitants combined the inclusion of high-quality temper materials with rubbish recycled from everyday activities (Karkanas & Van De Moortel 2014).…”

Section: Discussion: Technology Of Lime Production In Southeast Asiamentioning

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“…Upon exposure to atmospheric carbon dioxide, this calcium hydroxide paste reverts to calcium carbonate, producing a hard, durable surface. In this article, we differentiate these mortars and plasters, defining the former as a material that consists of a fine lime matrix (binder) with an added coarse fraction (temper) used to construct architectural surfaces, such as floors, and the latter, plaster, as a medium, such as clay or lime, which is applied as a fine coat or finish to lime-mortared surfaces (Stoops et al 2017).…”

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Early settlement construction in Southeast Asia: lime mortar floor sequences at Loc Giang, southern Vietnam

Grono

Piper²,

Kính³

et al. 2022

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Research on prehistoric mainland Southeast Asia is dominated by mortuary contexts, leaving processes such as the transition to sedentism relatively understudied. Recent excavations in southern Vietnam, however, have recovered new evidence for settlement. The authors report on investigations at the neolithic site of Loc Giang (3980–3270 cal BP) in southern Vietnam, where excavation revealed a vertical sequence of more than 30 surfaces. Microarchaeological analyses indicate that these features are carefully prepared lime mortar floors; the lime was probably produced from burnt shell. The floors date to between 3510 and 3150 cal BP, providing the earliest-known evidence for the use of lime mortar, and for durable settlement construction, in this region.

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Section: Discussion: Technology Of Lime Production In Southeast Asiamentioning

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Section: Prehistoric Lime Production Technologymentioning

confidence: 99%

Early settlement construction in Southeast Asia: lime mortar floor sequences at Loc Giang, southern Vietnam

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Piper²,

Kính³

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“…These values are consistent with the mineralogical composition of the mortar (Table 3). The results of the macroscopic and microscopic investigations on the mortar suggest that it is characterized by a very homogeneous composition, and, for its production, the lime was obtained (Karkanas, 2007;Stoops et al, 2017;Cortéz Pérez et al, 2018;Montana et al, 2018) of the aggregates, due to the very limited availability of sand in alluvial deposits ("at" and "b"; Figure 3), was obtained by grinding the ACP Sandstones (samples PO 5 and PO 6). This mortar perfectly cemented the stone materials of the walls, allowing the original architectural and structural elements of the bridge to still be used actually.…”

Section: Mortar Densitymentioning

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Geoarchaelogical Study of the Roman Pietra Dell’Oglio Bridge at the Service of the Old Appian Way, Campania, Southern Italy

Chiocchini¹,

Piano²,

Gaeta³

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The Pietra dell'Oglio bridge is the only Roman infrastructure that crosses the Ofanto River between Mirabella Eclano (Aeclanum in Campania) and Venosa (Venusia in Basilicata), just near the border between Campania and Basilicata. The bridge was built on a substrate consisting of the stable middle Miocene Cerreta-Bosco di Pietra Palomba Sandstone (ACP) and where the Ofanto River valley is narrower. The current state of the bridge shows that 18 architectural and structural elements are original, 12 were restored, 1 was modified, 4 were reconstructed, and 4 were added in the last century. The original architectural and structural elements (ASEs) are built by the technique of opus quadratum and opus incertum using the pebbles of the Ofanto River and ashlars of phytoclastic travertine and ACP Sandstone cemented by very hard mortar. The opus incertum technique and its use for many bridges in Italy and France suggest that the Pietra dell'Oglio bridge was built between the II and I century BC at the service of a very important public road. The present research is allowed to identify the Pietra dell'Oglio bridge with the Pons Aufidi related to the old Appian Way layout between Mirabella Eclano and Venosa and contributes to improving the knowledge of Roman bridge engineering, particularly in Campania.

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Calcareous Mortars, Plasters and Floors

Cited by 13 publications

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Early settlement construction in Southeast Asia: lime mortar floor sequences at Loc Giang, southern Vietnam

Early settlement construction in Southeast Asia: lime mortar floor sequences at Loc Giang, southern Vietnam

Geoarchaelogical Study of the Roman Pietra Dell’Oglio Bridge at the Service of the Old Appian Way, Campania, Southern Italy

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