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Volcanic rock Bronze Age millstones of Apulia, Southern Italy

Dipartimento Geomineralogico, Campus Universitario, Via E. Orabona n. 4, I-70125 Bari, Italy

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Twenty-three samples of volcanic-rock Bronze Age (XIX - X C. b.C.) millstones from ten archaeological sites of Apulia were studied by both petrological and geochemical methods. All the millstones are of the saddle-type, and all are made of haüyne bearing tephrites and phonolite-tephrites typical of the Mt. Vulture volcano. Subsequently, in Classic-Ellenistic Age (V - II C. b.C.) millstones mainly of the hupper-rubber type from Mt. Etna were preferred so that the diffusion of Vulture millstones decreased in the course of time.

Key-words: millstones, provenance, bronze age, Apulia, Mt.Vulture.

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