Egypt
Wiley InterScience
The latest issue of the journal Archaeometry has an article which may be of interest:
As usual you will either need access to an academic resource to access the full version or you will need to download it for a fee at the above address. Here's the abstract:
- In The Lab: Inorganic Pigments And Plaster Layers From Excavations At Saqqara Area
e-conservation magazine (Hussein Hassan M.H. Mahmoud) The entire article is available at the above page. Examination of Some Inorganic Pigments and Plaster Layers from Excavations at Saqqara Area, Egypt. Optical microscopy and SEM-EDS microanalysis. ...
- Dating Fired-clay Ceramics Using Long-term Power Law Rehydroxylation Kinetics
Proceedings of the Royal Society Thanks to Pierfranco Dotti for sending me the above link which discusses a technique for dating inorganic materials. I've been away for a few days but I understand that there is quite a lively discussion taking place...
- New Technology For Dating Ancient Rock Paintings
Science Daily A new dating method finally is allowing archaeologists to incorporate rock paintings — some of the most mysterious and personalized remnants of ancient cultures — into the tapestry of evidence used to study life in prehistoric times....
- Archaeometry August 2007
Archaeometry Issue 49(3)Thanks to Hugh Jarvis on the Lithics-L list ([email protected]) for drawing attention to the new edition of Archaeometry [49(3), August 2007]. As well as a fascinating list of titles on other subjects, there is a...
- Pharaoh's Pots Give Up Their Secrets
http://tinyurl.com/3xmoyz (New Scientist)"For a century, they have been on display in the Louvre museum in Paris, labelled as Canopic jars holding the embalmed innards of the great Egyptian pharaoh Rameses II. But the four pots, covered in hieroglyphs,...
Egypt
Journal: Archaeometry Vol 51/3
Wiley InterScience
The latest issue of the journal Archaeometry has an article which may be of interest:
A MULTI-ANALYTICAL APPROACH FOR THE CHARACTERIZATION OF COMMODITIES IN A CERAMIC JAR FROM ANTINOE (EGYPT)* (p 480-494)
E. RIBECHINI, M. P. COLOMBINI, G. GIACHI, F. MODUGNO, P. PALLECCHIAs usual you will either need access to an academic resource to access the full version or you will need to download it for a fee at the above address. Here's the abstract:
This paper describes a multi-analytical chemical study performed on the original, almost totally conserved, content of a small ceramic jar from the Antinoe archaeological site (fifth to seventh centuries ad, Roman Egypt) and now belonging to the archaeological collection of the Istituto Papirologico 'Girolamo Vitelli' (Florence, Italy). Scanning electron microscopy with an energy-dispersive X-ray spectrometer (SEM–EDX), Fourier transformed infrared spectroscopy (FTIR) and X-ray diffraction (XRD) were all used to characterize the inorganic components of the archaeological material. The organic substances were analysed using FTIR, direct exposure mass spectrometry (DE–MS) and gas chromatography – mass spectrometry (GC–MS). The inorganic component essentially consisted of halite (NaCl). Among the NaCl crystals, lamellar elements were identified. They were chemically characterized by carbonato-apatite and showed a concentric morphology typical of the scales of small fish. The most prevalent organic constituents of the sample were monocarboxylic acids, α,ω-dicarboxylic acids, and cholesterol and its oxidation products. The organic material composition was consistent with the occurrence of lipids of animal origin. In addition, diterpenes related to pine pitch were also identified. The overall results suggest that the material recovered in the small ceramic jar found in Antinoe is a residue of fish-based pickles such as garum, muria, allex and liquamen, which were commonly used in Roman times.
- In The Lab: Inorganic Pigments And Plaster Layers From Excavations At Saqqara Area
e-conservation magazine (Hussein Hassan M.H. Mahmoud) The entire article is available at the above page. Examination of Some Inorganic Pigments and Plaster Layers from Excavations at Saqqara Area, Egypt. Optical microscopy and SEM-EDS microanalysis. ...
- Dating Fired-clay Ceramics Using Long-term Power Law Rehydroxylation Kinetics
Proceedings of the Royal Society Thanks to Pierfranco Dotti for sending me the above link which discusses a technique for dating inorganic materials. I've been away for a few days but I understand that there is quite a lively discussion taking place...
- New Technology For Dating Ancient Rock Paintings
Science Daily A new dating method finally is allowing archaeologists to incorporate rock paintings — some of the most mysterious and personalized remnants of ancient cultures — into the tapestry of evidence used to study life in prehistoric times....
- Archaeometry August 2007
Archaeometry Issue 49(3)Thanks to Hugh Jarvis on the Lithics-L list ([email protected]) for drawing attention to the new edition of Archaeometry [49(3), August 2007]. As well as a fascinating list of titles on other subjects, there is a...
- Pharaoh's Pots Give Up Their Secrets
http://tinyurl.com/3xmoyz (New Scientist)"For a century, they have been on display in the Louvre museum in Paris, labelled as Canopic jars holding the embalmed innards of the great Egyptian pharaoh Rameses II. But the four pots, covered in hieroglyphs,...