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SEM-EDX at the Service of Archaeology to Unravel Historical Technology

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  26 June 2009

Carolina Cardell ,
Isabel Guerra  and
Antonio Sánchez-Navas
Carolina Cardell*
Affiliation:
Dept. of Mineralogy and Petrology, Faculty of Science, University of Granada, Avenida Fuentenueva s/n, 18071 Granada, Spain
Isabel Guerra
Affiliation:
Scientific Instrumentation Centre, Avda. Campus Fuentenueva, University of Granada, 18071 Granada, Spain
Antonio Sánchez-Navas
Affiliation:
Dept. of Mineralogy and Petrology, Faculty of Science, University of Granada, Avenida Fuentenueva s/n, 18071 Granada, Spain
*
*cardell@ugr.es

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It is well known that there is a profitable cooperation between archaeology and the scientific disciplines of chemistry, geology, biology, and physics with the aim of producing better interpretations of archaeological materials. This field of science is known as archaeometry. Two main goals of archaeometry are to analyze and characterize historic objects to preserve them and to investigate the knowledge and skills required to fabricate them. This latter information is essential in the evaluation of cultural and technological aspects of past societies and to further understand the transference of technological knowledge through time periods and geographical contexts.

Type
Materials Applications
Information
Microscopy Today , Volume 17 , Issue 4 , July 2009 , pp. 28 - 33
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Copyright © Microscopy Society of America 2009