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  title info:
    non sort: The
    title: Archaeologist’s Manual for Conservation
    sub title: A Guide to Non-Toxic, Minimal Intervention Artifact Stablization
  name:
    name part: Rodgers, Bradley A.
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  name:
    name part: SpringerLink (Online service)
  type of resource: text
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: xxu
    date issued: 2004
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: electronic
    form: electronic resource
    reformatting quality: access
    form: remote
    extent: XVII, 214 p. online resource.
  abstract: 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.
  table of contents: The Minimal Intervention Laboratory -- Archaeological Wood -- Archaeological Iron (Fe) -- Archaeological Copper (Cu) and Copper Alloys -- Miscellaneous Archaeological Metals -- Archaeological Ceramic, Glass, and Stone -- Organics Other than Wood -- Archaeological Composites.
  note: by Bradley A. Rodgers.
  subject:
    topic: Social sciences
  subject:
    topic: Ecology
  subject:
    topic: Anthropology
  subject:
    topic: Archaeology
  subject:
    topic: Social Sciences
  subject:
    topic: Archaeology
  subject:
    topic: Ecology
  subject:
    topic: Anthropology
  classification: CC1-960
  classification: 930.1
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    title info:
      title: Springer eBooks
  identifier: 9780306486135
  identifier: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/b110192
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    record creation date: 100301
    record change date: 20151204173036.0
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