Materials issues in art and archaeology IX : symposium held November 29-December 3, Boston, Massachusetts, U.S.A.

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Materials issues in art and archaeology IX : symposium held November 29-December 3, Boston, Massachusetts, U.S.A.

editors, Pamela B. Vandiver ... [et al.]

(Materials Research Society symposium proceedings, v. 1319)

Materials Research Society , Cambridge University Press, 2011

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"Symposium WW, 'Materials Issues in Art and Archaeology IX,' was held Nov. 29-Dec. 3 at the 2010 MRS Fall Meeting in Boston, Mssachusetts."--Pref

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Symposium WW was held Nov. 29-Dec. 3 2010 at the MRS Fall Meeting in Boston, Massachusetts. It featured cutting-edge topics, interdisciplinary research and innovative applications of traditional and novel analytical methods. Its focus is: characterization of art objects and archaeological artifacts; analysis and reconstruction of technologies of selection, preparation, production, testing and performance by which materials are produced and transformed into useful, significant and beautiful objects; the properties and performance of ancient objects and the processes underlying their deterioration, preservation and conservation; and the development of sensors, proxies and other tools and methods for evaluating long-term stability, for non-destructive, in-situ examination and characterization and for testing new methods and materials for conservation treatment. Preservation of cultural heritage includes developing a critical understanding of how ancient people developed, used and transferred technologies to solve problems of survival, organization and the making of objects that represent what was important to them.

Table of Contents

  • Part I. Ancient and Traditional Technologies: Analysis and Reconstruction: 1. An evaluation of decorative techniques on a red-figure attic vase from the Worcester Art Museum using reflectance transformation imaging (RTI) and confocal microscopy with a special focus on the 'relief line'
  • 2. Metallography, microanalysis and corrosion of the Athlit Ram
  • 3. Methods of faience manufacture in antiquity: investigation of colorants and technological processes
  • 4. Divergent pottery firing practices at the advent of the early Bronze Age: the social integration of crafts and craftspeople at Kura-Araxes sites in the northeastern Caucasus
  • 5. The earliest bead manufacture in the Americas at the Paleo-Indian Jones-Miller site, Wray, Colorado
  • 6. Influence of the heat treatment on the physical transformations of flints used by Neolithic societies (western Mediterranean area)
  • 7. The history and scientific analysis of pre-1856 eastern woodlands quillwork dyes
  • 8. Non-destructive Raman study on the provenance and firing temperature of Guan wares in the Song dynasty
  • 9. Diffusion of indigo molecules inside the Palygorskite clay channels
  • 10. Beyond the word: ink in the Islamic manuscripts of northern Nigeria
  • 11. Technological tradition and change in Tibetan silversmithing techniques in Songpan, Sichuan Province, China
  • Part II. Archaeological Science: 12. Thin coatings of ceramics: some new developments in France and in Europe
  • 13. The early Iron Age metal workshop at Tell Tayinat, Turkey
  • 14. Alloys from Anau: the manipulation of metallic properties in third millennium B.C. southern central Asia
  • Part III. Conservation Science: 15. Non-invasive characterization for long-term preservation of cultural heritage
  • 16. Preliminary results of the use of hydroxyapatite as a consolidant for carbonate stones
  • 17. Research on the corrosion of bronze weapons from the pits of the terracotta warriors
  • 18. Structural degradation of third millennium B.C.E. archaeological wood from Shahr-i Sukhta, Iran
  • Part IV. Technical Art History: 19. The redecoration history of a Chinese polychromed guanyin attributed to the 11th-12th century C.E. as deduced from stratigraphic microanalysis
  • 20. Non-destructive study of the independence act of the Mexican empire of 1821
  • 21. Space heritage: the Apollo heat shield, atmospheric reentry, imprint on materials' surface
  • 22. Deterioration in abstract expressionist paintings: analysis of zinc oxide paint layers in works from the collection of the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Smithsonian Institution
  • Part V. Funding, Methodology and Instrumentation: 23. Science at the interface with art
  • 24. Ultrafast laser cleaning of daguerreotypes
  • 25. Seeing through corrosion: using micro-focus x-ray computed tomography and neutron computed tomography to digitally 'clean' ancient bronze coins
  • 26. Dinosaur and crocodile fossils from the Mesozoic of Portugal: neutron tomography and synchrotron-radiation based micro-computed tomography
  • 27. Preparation and assessment of superhydrophobic organic-inorganic hybrid coatings for conservation of Yungang grottoes
  • 28. Interim report on 'the lightfastness correlation project'
  • Part VI. Interdisciplinary or Cross-Disciplinary Contributions: 29. Reconstructing the past to prevent future loss: the dyeing industry of Pompeii
  • 30. Microstructure and its physicochemical basis for the white porcelain from Gongyi Kiln of Henan Province in China.

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  • NCID
    BB07048797
  • ISBN
    • 9781605112961
  • Country Code
    us
  • Title Language Code
    eng
  • Text Language Code
    eng
  • Place of Publication
    Warrendale, Pa.,Cambridge
  • Pages/Volumes
    xiii, 385 p.
  • Size
    24 cm
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