Materials issues in art and archaeology VIII : symposium held November 26-28, 2007, Boston, Massachusetts, U.S.A.
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Bibliographic Information
Materials issues in art and archaeology VIII : symposium held November 26-28, 2007, Boston, Massachusetts, U.S.A.
(Materials Research Society symposium proceedings, v. 1047)
Materials Research Society, c2008
Available at 4 libraries
  Aomori
  Iwate
  Miyagi
  Akita
  Yamagata
  Fukushima
  Ibaraki
  Tochigi
  Gunma
  Saitama
  Chiba
  Tokyo
  Kanagawa
  Niigata
  Toyama
  Ishikawa
  Fukui
  Yamanashi
  Nagano
  Gifu
  Shizuoka
  Aichi
  Mie
  Shiga
  Kyoto
  Osaka
  Hyogo
  Nara
  Wakayama
  Tottori
  Shimane
  Okayama
  Hiroshima
  Yamaguchi
  Tokushima
  Kagawa
  Ehime
  Kochi
  Fukuoka
  Saga
  Nagasaki
  Kumamoto
  Oita
  Miyazaki
  Kagoshima
  Okinawa
  Korea
  China
  Thailand
  United Kingdom
  Germany
  Switzerland
  France
  Belgium
  Netherlands
  Sweden
  Norway
  United States of America
Note
Includes bibliographical references and indexes
Other editors: Blythe McCarthy, Robert H. Tykot, Jose Luis Ruvalcaba-Sil, and Francesca Casadio
Description and Table of Contents
Description
This book gives evidence of the proliferation of successful multidisciplinary collaborations among researchers in museums, universities and laboratories. These studies use the methods and techniques of materials research to understand degradation and design strategies and promote long-term preservation of material culture and cultural heritage, e.g., works of art, culturally significant artifacts, and archaeological sites and complexes and their environments. Preserving cultural heritage includes developing a critical understanding of how our predecessors used technology and craft to solve problems of survival and organization and make the symbols or representations of what was important to them. The book also discloses patterns of technology-transfer from one field to another and provides evaluation tools and skills so that preservation expectations may be based on performance criteria and life histories of the constituent materials. Topics include: technical art history; conservation science; archaeology science; reconstruction of past technologies; innovative methodology and instrumentation and interdisciplinary or cross-disciplinary contributions.
Table of Contents
- Dedication
- Preface
- Part I. Technical Art History
- Part II. Conservation Science
- Part III. Archaeological Science
- Part IV. Reconstruction of Past Technologies
- Part V. Methodology and Instrumentation
- Part VI. Interdisciplinary or Cross-Disciplinary Contributions
- Author index
- Subject index.
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