%0 Journal Article
%T An application of luminiscence dating to building archaeology: The study of ceramic building materials in early medieval churches in north-western France and south-eastern England
%A Blain
%A Sophie
%J Arqueolog¨ªa de la Arquitectura
%D 2010
%I Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Cient¨ªficas
%X The research reported in this thesis concerns the re-evaluation of an archaeological assumption surrounding the origin of Ceramic Building Materials (CBM) used from the 9th to the 11th century in religious buildings of north-western France and south-eastern England. Are the bricks used in the masonry structures Roman spolia or a novo productions? Amongst the dating methods that can contribute to building archaeology, it is the technique of stimulated luminescence applied to CBM that is the focus of this study. Results from thermoluminescence (TL) and optically stimulated luminescence (OSL) dating performed on 52 CBM samples from 11 churches showed that the practice of reusing Roman brick was commonplace in small parish churches, but also that brick-making was not a totally unknown skill of the early medieval craftsmen as it has long been supposed. Most importantly, by identifying that the building material is contemporary to the church, a defined chronology emerges resulting in a new and extremely useful reference point in the history of early medieval architecture. La investigaci¨®n presentada en esta tesis se ocupa de la reevaluaci¨®n de un supuesto arqueol¨®gico entorno al origen del material cer¨¢mico constructivo (CBM) empleado entre los siglos IX y XI en los edificios religiosos del Noroeste de Francia y el Sudeste de Inglaterra.  Son los ladrillos empleados en las estructuras de f¨¢brica spolia romana o producciones a novo? Entre los m¨¦todos de dataci¨®n que pueden contribuir a la arqueolog¨ªa del edificio, la t¨¦cnica de luminiscencia estimulada aplicada al CBM es el centro de este estudio. Los resultados de la termoluminiscencia (TL) y de la luminiscencia estimulada ¨®pticamente (OSL), aplicadas en 52 muestras de CBM tomadas en 11 iglesias, evidencian que la pr¨¢ctica de reutilizar ladrillos romanos era com¨²n en peque as iglesias parroquiales, pero que tambi¨¦n la t¨¦cnica de elaboraci¨®n de ladrillos no era totalmente desconocida para los artesanos altomedievales, como se hab¨ªa supuesto hasta ahora. Lo que es m¨¢s importante, al identificar material constructivo contempor¨¢neo a la iglesia, se obtiene una cronolog¨ªa concreta que se convierte en un punto de referencia nuevo y extremadamente ¨²til para la historia de la arquitectura altomedieval.
%K Carolingian and Anglo-Saxon architecture
%K churches
%K ceramic building materials
%K spolia
%K luminescence dating
%K building archaeology
%K arquitectura carolingia y anglosajona
%K iglesias
%K material cer¨¢mico constructivo
%K spolia
%K dataci¨®n por luminiscencia
%K arqueolog¨ªa del edificio
%U http://arqarqt.revistas.csic.es/index.php/arqarqt/article/view/113/110