Archaeological chemistry : materials, methods, and meaning /
Conference: 222nd : American Chemical Society symposium 222nd : August 26-30, 2001 : Chicago, Ill.
Contributor(s): Jakes, Kathryn A | American Chemical Society. Division of the History of Chemistry.
Series: ACS symposium series ; 831.Publisher: Washington, DC : American Chemical Society, 2002Description: ix, 261 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.Content type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 0841238103 (alk. paper); 9780841238107:.Subject(s): Archaeological chemistry -- Congresses | Archaeology -- Methodology -- CongressesDDC classification: 930.1028Item type | Current library | Call number | Copy number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds |
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Standard Loan | ATU Sligo Yeats Library Main Lending Collection | 930.1028 AME (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | 1 | Available | 0052559 |
Developed from a symposium sponsored by the Division of the History of Chemistry at the 222th National Meeting of the American Chemical Society, Chicago, Illinois, , 2001.
Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Archaeological Chemistry: Materials, Methods, and Meaning / Kathryn A. Jakes -- Potential for Virtually Nondestructive Radiocarbon and Stable Carbon Isotopic Analyses on Perishable Archaeological Artifacts / Karen L. Steelman and Marvin W. Rowe -- Accelerator Mass Spectrometry Radiocarbon Ages of an Oxalate Accretion and Rock Paintings at Toca do Serrote da Bastiana, Brazil / Karen L. Steelman, Richard Rickman, Marvin W. Rowe, Thomas W. Boutton, Jon Russ, and Niede Guidon -- Measuring Lead Isotope Ratios in Majolica from New Spain Using a Nondestructive Technique / Susan Reslewic and James H. Burton -- Characterization of Archaeological Materials by Laser Ablation-Inductively Coupled Plasma-Mass Spectrometry / Robert J. Speakman, Hector Neff, Michael D. Glascock, and Barry J. Higgins -- Modern and Ancient Resins from Africa and the Americas / Joseph B. Lambert, Yuyang Wu, and Jorge A. Santiago-Blay -- Characterization and Radiocarbon Dating of Archaeological Resins from Southeast Asia / C.D. Lampert, I.C. Glover, C.P. Heron, B. Stem, R. Shoocongdej, and G.B. Thompson -- Analysis of Glass Beads and Glass Recovered from an Early 17th-Century Glassmaking House in Amsterdam / K. Karklins, R.G.V. Hancock, J. Baart, M.L. Sempowski, J.-F. Moreau, D. Barham, S. Aufreiter, and I. Kenyon -- Morphology and Microstructure of Marine Silk Fibers / Rekha Srinivasan and Kathryn A. Jakes -- Electron Spin Resonance Studies To Explore the Thermal History of Archaeological Objects / Robert G. Hayes and Mark R. Schurr -- Geochemical Analysis of Obsidian and the Reconstruction of Trade Mechanisms in the Early Neolithic Period of the Western Mediterranean / Robert H. Tykot -- Chemical, Technological, and Social Aspects of Pottery Manufacture in the La Quemada Region of Northwest Mexico / E. Christian Wells and Ben A. Nelson -- Trace Element Analysis and Its Role in Analyzing Ceramics in the Eastern Woodlands / Christina B. Rieth -- Contribution of Stable Isotope Analysis to Understanding Dietary Variation among the Maya / Robert H. Tykot -- Chemical Compositions of Chinese Coins of Emperor Ch'ien Lung (Qian Long) and Annamese Coins of Emperor Thanh Thai via Energy-Dispersive X-ray Fluorescence / Tiffany Gaines, Eric McGrath, Vincent Iduma, Renee Kuzava, Sarah Frederick, and Mark Benvenuto.
Provides examples of analytical methods in a variety of archaeological materials. This book presents analytical techniques that incur no visible destruction of the artefact under examination. Using patterns in the analytical data derived from a wide variety of analytical methods, different components of past human behaviour are inferred.