Limestone millstones: Facies, provenance ...
Type de document :
Compte-rendu et recension critique d'ouvrage
DOI :
Titre :
Limestone millstones: Facies, provenance and use of sandy to pure limestones in France
Auteur(s) :
Fronteau, Gilles [Auteur]
Université de Reims Champagne-Ardenne [URCA]
Groupe d'Étude sur les Géomatériaux et Environnements Naturels, Anthropiques et Archéologiques - EA 3795 [GEGENAA]
Boyer, François [Auteur]
Jaccottey, Luc [Auteur]
Institut national de recherches archéologiques préventives - Centre de recherches archéologiques de Besançon [Inrap, Besançon]
Laboratoire Chrono-environnement (UMR 6249) [LCE]
Le Quellec, Vincent [Auteur]
Lepareux-Couturier, Stéphanie [Auteur]
Institut national de recherches archéologiques préventives [Inrap]
Archéologie et Philologie d'Orient et d'Occident [AOROC]
Milleville, Annabelle [Auteur]
Labex TransferS
Monchablon, Cécile [Auteur]
Institut national de recherches archéologiques préventives [Inrap]
Trajectoires - UMR 8215
Robin, Boris [Auteur]
Picavet, Paul [Auteur]
Histoire, Archéologie et Littérature des Mondes Anciens - UMR 8164 [HALMA]
Université de Reims Champagne-Ardenne [URCA]
Groupe d'Étude sur les Géomatériaux et Environnements Naturels, Anthropiques et Archéologiques - EA 3795 [GEGENAA]
Boyer, François [Auteur]
Jaccottey, Luc [Auteur]
Institut national de recherches archéologiques préventives - Centre de recherches archéologiques de Besançon [Inrap, Besançon]
Laboratoire Chrono-environnement (UMR 6249) [LCE]
Le Quellec, Vincent [Auteur]
Lepareux-Couturier, Stéphanie [Auteur]
Institut national de recherches archéologiques préventives [Inrap]
Archéologie et Philologie d'Orient et d'Occident [AOROC]
Milleville, Annabelle [Auteur]
Labex TransferS
Monchablon, Cécile [Auteur]
Institut national de recherches archéologiques préventives [Inrap]
Trajectoires - UMR 8215
Robin, Boris [Auteur]
Picavet, Paul [Auteur]
Histoire, Archéologie et Littérature des Mondes Anciens - UMR 8164 [HALMA]
Titre de la revue :
Journal of lithic studies
2nd Meeting of the Association for Ground Stone Tools Research
2nd Meeting of the Association for Ground Stone Tools Research
Éditeur :
University of Edinburgh
Date de publication :
2020
ISSN :
2055-0472
Mot(s)-clé(s) en anglais :
limestone
petrography
geomaterial
saddle quern
rotary quern
millstone
petrography
geomaterial
saddle quern
rotary quern
millstone
Discipline(s) HAL :
Planète et Univers [physics]/Sciences de la Terre/Pétrographie
Planète et Univers [physics]/Sciences de la Terre/Géologie appliquée
Sciences de l'Homme et Société/Archéologie et Préhistoire
Planète et Univers [physics]/Sciences de la Terre/Géologie appliquée
Sciences de l'Homme et Société/Archéologie et Préhistoire
Résumé en anglais : [en]
Limestones are sedimentary rocks more commonly associated with building stones or sculptures than with millstones. Nevertheless, many examples of limestone saddle querns, rotary querns and millstones are spread across ...
Lire la suite >Limestones are sedimentary rocks more commonly associated with building stones or sculptures than with millstones. Nevertheless, many examples of limestone saddle querns, rotary querns and millstones are spread across France, at times making up the bulk of the archaeological assemblages in various areas characterized by bedrocks rich of sedimentary stones. These limestone millstones are of different types, sources and geological origins: Eocene sandy or fossiliferous limestones, mainly from the various limestones layers from the Lutetian beds, Quaternary calcareous tufas, and fine Jurassic limestones. To explain the behaviour of these rocks, this study advances a classification of the rocks used for millstones, focused not only on the rock-type but mainly on the topological aspect of the stone surface. (empirical macroscopic surface roughness) This renders it possible to classify the rocks into categories by materials, rather than according to petrographic facies. The pure limestones in this study are essentially vacuolar, whereas sandy limestones or certain biodetritital limestones belong to either the granular rocks category, which also includes sandstones, or to the category of heterogeneous rocks. These limestones appear for the most part to have been used due to their availability. Moreover, they epitomise a very satisfactory compromise between their grinding properties and their ease of carving, even if the hardness of these limestones is lower than those of other rocks used as grindstone (basalts or sandstones).Lire moins >
Lire la suite >Limestones are sedimentary rocks more commonly associated with building stones or sculptures than with millstones. Nevertheless, many examples of limestone saddle querns, rotary querns and millstones are spread across France, at times making up the bulk of the archaeological assemblages in various areas characterized by bedrocks rich of sedimentary stones. These limestone millstones are of different types, sources and geological origins: Eocene sandy or fossiliferous limestones, mainly from the various limestones layers from the Lutetian beds, Quaternary calcareous tufas, and fine Jurassic limestones. To explain the behaviour of these rocks, this study advances a classification of the rocks used for millstones, focused not only on the rock-type but mainly on the topological aspect of the stone surface. (empirical macroscopic surface roughness) This renders it possible to classify the rocks into categories by materials, rather than according to petrographic facies. The pure limestones in this study are essentially vacuolar, whereas sandy limestones or certain biodetritital limestones belong to either the granular rocks category, which also includes sandstones, or to the category of heterogeneous rocks. These limestones appear for the most part to have been used due to their availability. Moreover, they epitomise a very satisfactory compromise between their grinding properties and their ease of carving, even if the hardness of these limestones is lower than those of other rocks used as grindstone (basalts or sandstones).Lire moins >
Langue :
Anglais
Vulgarisation :
Non
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