Modern Methods for Analysing Archaeological and Historical Glass

Modern Methods for Analysing Archaeological and Historical Glass

Author: Koen H. A. Janssens

Publisher: John Wiley & Sons

Published: 2013-03-18

Total Pages: 762

ISBN-13: 0470516143

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The first scientific volume to compile the modern analytical techniques for glass analysis, Modern Methods for Analysing Archaeological and Historical Glass presents an up-to-date description of the physico-chemical methods suitable for determining the composition of glass and for speciation of specific components. This unique resource presents members of Association Internationale pour l'Histoire du Verre, as well as university scholars, with a number of case studies where the effective use of one or more of these methods for elucidating a particular culturo-historical or historo-technical aspect of glass manufacturing technology is documented.


Modern Methods for Analysing Archaeological and Historical Glass

Modern Methods for Analysing Archaeological and Historical Glass

Author: Koen H. A. Janssens

Publisher: John Wiley & Sons

Published: 2013-01-29

Total Pages: 762

ISBN-13: 1118314204

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The first scientific volume to compile the modern analytical techniques for glass analysis, Modern Methods for Analysing Archaeological and Historical Glass presents an up-to-date description of the physico-chemical methods suitable for determining the composition of glass and for speciation of specific components. This unique resource presents members of Association Internationale pour l'Histoire du Verre, as well as university scholars, with a number of case studies where the effective use of one or more of these methods for elucidating a particular culturo-historical or historo-technical aspect of glass manufacturing technology is documented.


Modern Methods for Analysing Archaeological and Historical Glass

Modern Methods for Analysing Archaeological and Historical Glass

Author: Koen H. A. Janssens

Publisher: Wiley

Published: 2013-03-18

Total Pages: 768

ISBN-13: 9780470516140

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The first scientific volume to compile the modern analytical techniques for glass analysis, Modern Methods for Analysing Archaeological and Historical Glass presents an up-to-date description of the physico-chemical methods suitable for determining the composition of glass and for speciation of specific components. This unique resource presents members of Association Internationale pour l'Histoire du Verre, as well as university scholars, with a number of case studies where the effective use of one or more of these methods for elucidating a particular culturo-historical or historo-technical aspect of glass manufacturing technology is documented.


X-Ray Fluorescence Spectrometry and Its Applications to Archaeology

X-Ray Fluorescence Spectrometry and Its Applications to Archaeology

Author: Mary Kate Donais

Publisher: Momentum Press

Published: 2018-05-30

Total Pages: 217

ISBN-13: 1944749306

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This book serves as a practical guide for applications of X-ray fluorescence spectrometry, a nondestructive elemental analysis technique, to the study and understanding of archaeology. Descriptions of XRF theory and instrumentation and an introduction to field applications and practical aspects of archaeology provide new users to XRF and/or new to archaeology with a solid foundation on which to base further study. Considering recent trends within field archaeology, information specific to portable instrumentation also is provided. Discussions of qualitative and quantitative approaches and applications of statistical methods relate back to types of archaeological questions answerable through XRF analysis. Numerous examples, figures, and spectra from the authors’ field work are provided including chapters specific to pigments, ceramics, glass, construction materials, and metallurgical materials.


The Elemental Analysis of Glass Beads

The Elemental Analysis of Glass Beads

Author: Laure Dussubieux

Publisher: Leuven University Press

Published: 2022-10-03

Total Pages: 394

ISBN-13: 9462703388

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Glass beads, both beautiful and portable, have been produced and traded globally for thousands of years. Modern archaeologists study these artifacts through sophisticated methods that analyze the glass composition, a process which can be utilized to trace bead usage through time and across regions. This book publishes open-access compositional data obtained from laser ablation – inductively coupled plasma – mass spectrometry, from a single analytical laboratory, providing a uniquely comparative data set. The geographic range includes studies of beads produced in Europe and traded widely across North America and beads from South and Southeast Asia traded around the Indian Ocean and beyond. The contributors provide new insight on the timing of interregional interactions, technologies of bead production and patterns of trade and exchange, using glass beads as a window to the past. This volume will be a key reference for glass researchers, archaeologists, and any scholars interested in material culture and exchange; it provides a wide range of case studies in the investigation and interpretation of glass bead composition, production and exchange since ancient times.


Ancient Glass of South Asia

Ancient Glass of South Asia

Author: Alok Kumar Kanungo

Publisher: Springer Nature

Published: 2021-08-31

Total Pages: 567

ISBN-13: 9811636567

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This book provides a comprehensive research on Ancient Indian glass. The contributors include experienced archaeologists of South Asian glass and archaeological chemists with expertise in the chemical analysis of glass, besides, established ethnohistorians and ethnoarchaeologists. It is comprised of five sections, and each section discusses different aspects of glass study: the origin of glass and its evolution, its scientific study and its care, ancient glass in literature and glass ethnography, glass in South Asia and the diffusion of glass in different parts of the world. The topic covered by the different chapters ranges from the development of faience, to the techniques developed for the manufacture of glass beads, glass bangles or glass mirrors at different times in south Asia, a major glass producing region and the regional distribution of key artefacts both within India and outside the region, in Africa, Europe or Southeast Asia. Some chapters also include extended examples of the archaeometry of ancient glasses. It makes an important contribution to archaeological, anthropological and analytical aspects of glass in South Asia. As such, it represents an invaluable resource for students through academic and industry researchers working in archaeological sciences, ancient knowledge system, pyrotechnology, historical archaeology, social archaeology and student of anthropology and history with an interest in glass and the archaeology of South Asia.


Gulf in World History

Gulf in World History

Author: Allen James Fromherz

Publisher: Edinburgh University Press

Published: 2018-07-31

Total Pages: 481

ISBN-13: 1474430686

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Analyses of Ranciere's philosophy and its potential for understanding the conversation between contemporary politics and art cinema


Approaches to the Analysis of Production Activity at Archaeological Sites

Approaches to the Analysis of Production Activity at Archaeological Sites

Author: Anna K. Hodgkinson

Publisher: Archaeopress Publishing Ltd

Published: 2020-03-05

Total Pages: 206

ISBN-13: 1789695589

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Proceedings of a workshop held in Berlin, 2018, focusing on manufacturing activities identified at archaeological sites. New excavation techniques, ethnographic research, archaeometric approaches, GIS, experimental archaeology, and theoretical issues associated with how researchers understand production in the past, are presented here.


Analytical Strategies for Cultural Heritage Materials and their Degradation

Analytical Strategies for Cultural Heritage Materials and their Degradation

Author: Juan Manuel Madariaga

Publisher: Royal Society of Chemistry

Published: 2021-01-04

Total Pages: 256

ISBN-13: 1788019229

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Reviewing the analytical strategies used in the study of cultural heritage assets such as movable artworks and archaeological items, and immovable objects like mural paintings, archaeological sites and historical buildings, this book pays particular attention to analytical methodology. It is not always necessary to use new and sophisticated instrumentation, what is important is how the instruments are used to obtain reliable, reproducible and repetitive results in view of the problems to be solved. The book considers the influence of the environment on the conservation state including degradation and how modern analytical methods have improved the analysis of materials. It emphasizes multi-method approaches on a range of materials, an approach that is of keen interest to those working in conservation practice. Primarily aimed at final year undergraduate study and masters level students, it would also be useful as supplementary reading for postgraduates and academics who require analytical techniques to enhance their research.


Archaeological Science

Archaeological Science

Author: Michael P. Richards

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2020-01-16

Total Pages: 467

ISBN-13: 0521195225

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An accessible and wide-ranging introduction to the exciting and expanding field of archaeological science, for students, professionals and academics.