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Scientific Methods and Cultural Heritage - An introduction to the application of materials science to archaeometry and conservation science (Hardcover)
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Scientific Methods and Cultural Heritage - An introduction to the application of materials science to archaeometry and conservation science (Hardcover)
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Scientific techniques developed in materials science offer
invaluable information to archaeology, art history, and
conservation. A rapidly growing number of innovative methods, as
well as many established techniques, are constantly being improved
and optimized for the analysis of cultural heritage materials. The
result is that on the one hand more complex problems and questions
can be confronted, but on the other hand the required level of
technical competence is widening the existing cultural gap between
scientists and end users, such as archaeologists, museum curators,
art historians, and many managers of cultural heritage who have a
purely humanistic background.
The book is intended as an entry-level introduction to the methods
and rationales of scientific investigation of cultural heritage
materials, with emphasis placed on the analytical strategies, modes
of operation, and resulting information rather than on
technicalities. The extensive and updated reference list should be
a useful starting point for further reading. Students and
researchers from the humanities approaching scientific
investigations should find it useful, as well as scientists
applying familiar techniques and methods to unfamiliar problems
related to cultural heritage.
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