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Science and archaeology; [papers]
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Science and archaeology; [papers]

Author: Robert H Brill
Publisher: Cambridge, Mass., MIT Press [1971]
Edition/Format: Book : Conference publication : English
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Material Type: Conference publication
Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: Robert H Brill
ISBN: 0262020610 9780262020619
OCLC Number: 156438
Description: xi, 288 p. illus. (part col.), maps. 29 cm.
Contents: Ancient methods of gilding silver : examples from the Old and the New worlds / Heather N. Lechtman -- The techniques of the Luristan smith, with post-symposium notes / Cyril Stanley Smith -- Ceramic analysis : the interrelations of methods; the relations of analysts and archaeologists / Anna O. Shepard -- A study of temperatures used in firing ancient Mesopotamian pottery / Frederick R. Matson -- Egyptian blue as a pigment and ceramic material / W.T. Chase -- Calclacite and other efflorescent salts on objects stored in wooden museum cases / Elisabeth West FitzHugh and Rutherford J. Gettens -- Analyses of some metal artifacts from ancient Afghanistan / Earle R. Caley -- Compositions of some copper-based coins of Augustus and Tiberius / Giles F. Carter -- Trace impurity patterns in copper ores and artifacts / P.R. Fields ... [et al.] -- Rapid nondestructive activation analysis of silver in coins / Adon A. Gordus -- Two examples of the use of chemical analysis in the solution of archaeological problems / E.T. Hall -- High-resolution gamma ray spectroscopic analyses of fine orange pottery / Edward V. Sayre and Lui-Heung Chan. Appendix: Comments on the archaeological background and implications / Jeremy A. Sabloff -- Pottery analysis by neutron activation / I. Perlman and Frank Asaro -- Compositional categories of some English and American pottery of the American colonial period / Jacqueline S. Olin and Edward V. Sayre -- Analysis of American obsidians by X-ray fluorescence and neutron activation analysis / F.H. Stross ... [et al.] -- Activation analysis identification of the geologic origins of prehistoric obsidian artifacts / Adon A. Gordus, James B. Griffin and Gary A. Wright -- Determination of the origin of Greek amber artifacts by computer classification of infrared spectra / Curt W. Beck ... [et al.] -- Potential of thermoluminescence dating / Elizabeth K. Ralph and Mark C. Han -- The colonial obsidian industry of the Valley of Mexico / Joseph W. Michels -- Gas chromatography methods for bone fluorine and nitrogen composition / Donald W. Groff -- Applications of solid-state nuclear track detectors to archaeology / R. Walker ... [et al.].
Responsibility: Robert H. Brill, editor.

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