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Scientific techniques developed in materials science offer invaluable information to archaeology, art history, and conservation. A rapidly growing number of innovative methods, as well as many established techniques, are constantly being improved and optimised for the analysis of cultural heritage materials. The result is that on the one hand more complex problems and questions can be confronted, but on the other hand the required level of technical competence is widening the existing cultural gap between scientists and end users, such as archaeologists, museum curators, art historians, and many managers of cultural heritage who have a purely humanistic background. The book is intended as an entry-level introduction to the methods and rationales of scientific investigation of cultural heritage materials, with emphasis placed on the analytical strategies, modes of operation, and resulting information rather than on technicalities. The extensive and updated reference list should be a useful starting point for further reading. Students and researchers from the humanities approaching scientific investigations should find it useful, as well as scientists applying familiar techniques and methods to unfamiliar problems related to cultural heritage.

Archaeometry. --- Materials science. --- Protection. --- Conservation. Restoration --- Applied chemical analysis --- Archeology --- Applied physical engineering --- Archaeometry --- Cultural property --- Historic preservation --- Materials science --- Preservation, Historic --- Preservationism (Historic preservation) --- Cultural property, Protection of --- Cultural resources management --- Cultural policy --- Archaeology --- Art --- Material science --- Physical sciences --- Protection --- Government policy --- Methodology --- History --- Historic preservation. --- Chronology --- materials science --- archaeometry --- cultural heritage --- conservation science [cultural heritage discipline] --- Antiquités --- Physique archéologique --- Archéométrie --- Biens culturels --- Archéologie judiciaire --- Patrimoine historique --- Science des matériaux --- Collections et conservation --- Antiquités - Collections et conservation --- Cultural property - Protection