Archaeological conservation using polymers : practical applications for organic artifact stabilization /

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Smith, C. Wayne
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: College Station : Texas A & M University Press, ©2003.
Edición:1st ed.
Colección:Texas A & M University anthropology series ; no. 6.
Temas:
Antiquities > Collection and preservation.
Archaeology > Methodology.
Archaeological chemistry.
Polymers.
Polymers
Antiquités > Collections et conservation.
Archéologie > Méthodologie.
Chimie archéologique.
Polymères.
polymers.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Archaeology.
Antiquities > Collection and preservation
Archaeological chemistry
Archaeology > Methodology
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Foreword / J.M. Klosowski
  • Laboratory setup. Major instrumentation
  • Small necessities in the laboratory
  • Chemicals
  • Baseline mechanisms. Dowel experiment
  • Mass spectrographic analysis of out-gases created from the dehydration of archaeological wood samples
  • Archaeological wood. The challenge of conserving waterlogged wood
  • Degradation and shrinkage
  • Waterlogged wood from saltwater environments
  • Case study: Waterlogged wooden buttons with and without associated thread
  • Dry-site artifacts : dry and desiccated wood
  • Reprocessing and stabilization of PEG-treated wood
  • Tongue depressor experiment
  • Case study: Re-treatment of two PEG-treated sabots
  • Re-treatment of PEG-treated waterlogged wood
  • Case study: Treatment of waterlogged wood using hydrolyzable, multifunctional alkoxysilane polymers
  • Leather preservation. Archaeological leather
  • Cleaning
  • Chemical cleaning
  • Treatment of leather
  • PEG/air-drying treatments
  • Freeze-drying PEG-treated artifacts
  • PEG and other polymers
  • Passivation polymer processes
  • Case study: A successful treatment strategy for a waterlogged shoe
  • Passivation polymer treatment for dessicated leather
  • An effective treatment for dry leather
  • Suggestions for treating leather between sheets of glass
  • Storage and display of leather artifacts
  • Composite artifacts. Case study: Preservation of a composite artifact containing basketry and iron shot
  • Cordage and textiles. New techniques for the preservation of waterlogged rope
  • Silicone treatment strategies
  • Frankfurter method of rope preservation
  • Treating waterlogged rope in a nonpolar suspension medium
  • Incorporating the use of nonpolar suspension mediums and elements of the Frankfurter method into "traditional" silicone treatment strategies
  • Case study: La belle rope
  • Case study: Preservation of waterlogged canvas from Port Royal
  • Glass conservation. Devitrification
  • Removal of sulfide stains from lead crystal
  • Consolidating waterlogged glass using passivation polymers
  • An effective silicone oil treatment strategy
  • Reconstruction
  • Case study: Preservation of seventeenth-century glass using polymers
  • Case study: Preserving waterlogged glass and cork
  • Ivory and bone. Basic structural differences
  • Equipment setup for very fragile bone and ivory
  • Case study: Consolidating friable bone
  • Case study: Ivory from Tantura-B excavations in Israel
  • Case study: Waterlogged tusks from western Australia
  • Expanding the conservation tool kit. Computerized tomography and the stereolithographic process
  • Case study: Scanning an encrusted artifact : CT scanning used as a diagnostic tool
  • New tools : new directions in research.

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