Bibliogr. en fin de contributions

The papers presented in this book can be group under 4 main headings like applications to specific archaeological questions - use of marble ; provenance identification marble and other stones ; advances in provenance techniques, methodologies and detabases quarries and geology : quarring techniques, organisation, transport of stones, new quarries, stone carving and dressing, hazard and preservation of quarries, stone properties, weathering effects and restoration, as related to diagnostic problems, matching of stone fragments andauthenticity and pigments and painting on marble.