The last firewood of a late ancient limekiln in Egnatia (SE Italy)

• Autores: Angela Stellati, Girolamo Fiorentino, Raffaella Cassano, Custode Silvio Fioriello
• Localización: Saguntum: Papeles del Laboratorio de Arqueología de Valencia-Extra, ISSN 2253-7295, ISSN-e 2254-0512, Nº. Extra 13, 2012 (Ejemplar dedicado a: Wood and charcoal evidence for human and natural history), págs. 193-198
• Idioma: inglés
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  • During a recent excavation campaign in Egnatia (south-eastern Italy) a lime-kiln was discovered. It was totally sealed and its original load was still inside. This circumstance, which is rarely seen in archaeological investigations, made it possible to study how these structures work. Anthracological and taphonomic analyses, together with analyses of the charcoals� dimensions, enabled us to determine the composition of the fuel used and to suggest that it included wood that had originally been used as timber for construction and was subse- quently discarded.