Calcareous nannofossils in medieval mortar and mortar-based materials
- Calcareous nannofossils — very small-scaled marine microfossils — occur in many archaeological materials. Foremost, these include limestones used in masonry, material which has not experienced significant modification by humans. Poorly documented are nannofossils in mortars, because the burning process of quicklime requires the heating of the raw material to > 800°C. Here we focus on calcareous nannofossils in mortar and mortar-based samples of four medieval buildings in northern Germany. The study documents the presence of nannofossils in historic mortars. It supplies evidence for the provenance of the mortars used, thereby introducing a new tool for mortar provenance studies.
| Author: | Janina FalkenbergORCiDGND, Jörg MutterloseORCiDGND, Ulrich KaplanGND |
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| URN: | urn:nbn:de:hbz:294-109501 |
| DOI: | https://doi.org/10.1111/arcm.12626 |
| Parent Title (English): | Archaeometry |
| Subtitle (English): | a powerful tool for provenance analysis |
| Publisher: | Wiley |
| Place of publication: | Weinheim |
| Document Type: | Article |
| Language: | English |
| Date of Publication (online): | 2024/02/29 |
| Date of first Publication: | 2020/10/20 |
| Publishing Institution: | Ruhr-Universität Bochum, Universitätsbibliothek |
| Tag: | calcareous nannofossils; medieval; micropalaeontology; mortar; northern Germany; provenance analysis; render |
| Volume: | 63 |
| Issue: | 1 |
| First Page: | 19 |
| Last Page: | 39 |
| Note: | Dieser Beitrag ist auf Grund des DEAL-Wiley-Vertrages frei zugänglich. |
| Institutes/Facilities: | Institut für Geologie, Mineralogie und Geophysik |
| Dewey Decimal Classification: | Naturwissenschaften und Mathematik / Geowissenschaften, Geologie |
| open_access (DINI-Set): | open_access |
| faculties: | Fakultät für Geowissenschaften |
| Licence (English): |  Creative Commons - CC BY 4.0 - Attribution 4.0 International |
