Title: Science and the past /
Authors: Bowman, Sheridan.; British Museum.; British Museum.
Date: 1991
Publisher: Published for the Trustees of the British Museum by British Museum Press,
Physical description: 192 p., [8] p. of plates : ill. (some col.) ; 24 cm.
Language: English
LC classification: Q
Abstract: Ceramics - Glass - Metalwork - Tracing to source - Questions of chronology - Fakes - Computerising the collections.
Contents: Emergence of scientific inquiry into the past / Paul Craddock -- Ceramics : materials for all reasons / Andrew Middleton -- Looking into glass / Ian Freestone -- Mining and smelting in antiquity / Paul Craddock -- Metalwork : artifice and artistry / Michael Cowell & Susan La Niece -- Tracing to source / Michael Hughes -- Questions of chronology / Sheridan Bowman -- Spotting the fakes / Paul Craddock & Sheridan Bowman -- Computing and mathematics : putting two and two together / Peter Main -- Computerising the collections : the art of successful flea handling / Lea Jones.
Subject headings (LCSH): Antiquities--Analysis.; Archaeology; Archaeology--Data processing; Archaeology--Methodology; Archaeometry; British Museum. Department of Scientific Research; Computer science--Historiography.; Physical sciences--Historiography.