Study of Marble and Other Stones
Used in Antiquity
Edited by Yannis Maniatis, Norman Herz, Yannis Basiakos

ISBN: 1-873132-01-8 • 1995 • $80 • Paper

Collected papers from the 1998 NATO-sponsored Advanced Research Workshop of archaeologists, geologists, art historians, geochemists, radiochemists and museum curators provide an interdisciplinary study of stones used in antiquity as well as the ongoing problems of technology and conservation. Subjects include the study of specific quarries in ancient Greece and Rome; trade and other uses for quarried stone in Hungary, France and the Mediterranean; methods of determining the provenance of marble; provenance studies of other types of stone, including gypsum limestone, and granite; studies from the New World of pre-Columbian, colonial, and modern limestone and marble; and conservation techniques for these materials.