Author: Robert M. ThornePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Cultural property
Languages : en
Pages : 8
Book Description
Site Stabilization Information Sources
Author: Robert M. ThornePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Cultural property
Languages : en
Pages : 8
Book Description
Technical Brief
Author: Catalog of Historic Preservation Publications
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 46
Book Description
The Archaeologist's Manual for Conservation
Author: Bradley A. RodgersPublisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 030648613X
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 221
Book Description
This is a Foreword by an archaeologist, not a conservator, but as Brad Rodgers says, “Conservation has been steadily pulled from archaeology by the forces of specialization”(p. 3),andhewantstoremedythatsituationthroughthismanual. He seesthisworkasa“calltoactionforthenon-professionalconservator,”permitting “curators, conservators, and archaeologists to identify artifacts that need prof- sional attention and, allow these professionals to stabilize most artifacts in their own laboratories with minimal intervention, using simple non-toxic procedures” (p. 5). It is the mission of Brad’s manual to “bring conservation back into arch- ology” (p. 6). The degree of success of that goal depends on the degree to which archaeologists pay attention to, and put to use, what Brad has to say, because as he says, “The conservationist/archaeologist is responsible to make preparation for an artifact’s care even before it is excavated and after its storage into the foreseeable future”. . . a tremendous responsibility” (p. 10). The manual is a combination of highly technical as well as common sense methods of conserving wood, iron and other metals, ceramics, glass and stone, organicsandcomposits—afarbetterguidetoartifactconservationthanwasava- able to me when I ?rst faced that archaeological challenge at colonial Brunswick Town, North Carolina in 1958—a challenge still being faced by archaeologists today. The stage of conservation in 1958 is in dramatic contrast to the procedures Brad describes in this manual—conservation has indeed made great progress. For instance,acommonprocedurethenwastoheattheartifactsredhotinafurnace—a method that made me cringe.
EPA National Publications Catalog
Author: United States. Environmental Protection AgencyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Environmental protection
Languages : en
Pages : 716
Book Description
Storm Water Management for Construction Activities
Author: CRM
Author: Superfund RD&D
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Science. Subcommittee on Energy and EnvironmentPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Brownfields
Languages : en
Pages : 516
Book Description
Missouri Archaeological Society Quarterly
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Excavations (Archaeology)
Languages : en
Pages : 106
Book Description
Newsletter
Author: Tennessee Anthropological AssociationPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Anthropology
Languages : en
Pages : 164
Book Description