Archaeological chemistry
Subtitle: materials, methods, and meaning
By: Kathryn A. Jakes, editor.
Contributors: Jakes, Kathryn A., 1949-; American Chemical Society. Division of the History of Chemistry.; American Chemical Society. Meeting
Series: ACS symposium series -- 831
Publisher: American Chemical Society; Distributed by Oxford University Press
Published: 2002
Place of publication: Washington, DC; [New York]
Language: eng
Number of pages: 261
Subjects: Archaeological chemistry; Archaeology -- Methodology
Notes: Developed from a symposium sponsored by the Division of the History of Chemistry at the 222nd National Meeting of the American Chemical Society, Chicago, Illinois, August 26-30, 2001.

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Table of contents: title: Archaeological chemistry: materials, methods, and meaning -- Kathryn A. Jakes; title: Potential for virtually nondestructive radiocarbon and stable carbon isotopic analyses on perishable archaeological artifacts -- Karen L. Steelman and Marvin W. Rowe; title: Accelerator mass spectrometry radiocarbon ages of an oxalate accretion and rock paintings at Toca do Serrote da Bastiana, Brazil -- Karen L. Steelman ... [et al.]; title: Measuring lead isotope ratios in Majolica from New Spain using a nondestructive technique -- Susan Reslewic and James H. Burton; title: Characterization of archaeological materials by laser ablation-inductively coupled plasma-mass spectrometry -- Robert J. Speakman ... [et al.]; title: Modern and ancient resins from Africa and the Americas -- Joseph B. Lambert, Yuyang Wu, and Jorge A. Santiago-Blay; title: Characterization and radiocarbon dating of archaeological resins from Southeast Asia -- C.D. Lampert ... [et al.]; title: Analysis of glass beads and glass recovered from an early 17th-Century glassmaking house in Amsterdam -- K. Karklins ... [et al.]; title: Morphology and microstructure of marine silk fibers -- Rekha Srinivasan and Kathryn A. Jakes; title: Electron spin resonance studies to explore the thermal history of archaeological objects -- Robert G. Hayes and Mark R. Schurr; title: Geochemical analysis of obsidian and the reconstruction of trade mechanisms in the early Neolithic period of the Western Mediterranean -- Robert H. Tykot; title: Chemical, technological, and social aspects of pottery manufacture in the La Quemada region of northwest Mexico -- E. Christian Wells and Ben A. Nelson; title: Trace element analysis and its role in analyzing ceramics in the eastern woodlands -- Christina B. Rieth; title: Contribution of stable isotope analysis to understanding dietary variation among the Maya -- Robert H. Tykot; title: Chemical compositions of Chinese coins of emperor Ch'ien Lung (Qian Long) and Annamese coins of emperor Thanh Thai via energy-dispersive x-ray fluorescence-- Tiffany Gaines ... [et al.].