The Archaeologist’s Manual for Conservation A Guide to Non-Toxic, Minimal Intervention Artifact Stablization /

• Main Author: Rodgers, Bradley A. (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Boston, MA : Springer US, 2004.
• Subjects: Social sciences.; Ecology.; Anthropology.; Archaeology.; Social Sciences.

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,”perm...

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.