ARCHAEOLOGICAL CHEMISTRY VIII

Ruth Ann Armitage is affiliated with Eastern Michigan University. James H. Burton is affiliated with the Laboratory for Archaeological Chemistry at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

Presents the latest information and techniques used in archaeological chemistry, stemming from an ACS symposium.

Preface ; Pigments and Dyes ; 1. Artists' Pigments in Illuminated Medieval Manuscripts: Tracing Artistic ; Influences and ConnectionsDLA Review ; Mary Virginia Orna ; 2. Investigation of Ancient Roman Pigments by Portable ; Spectroscopy and Polarized Light Microscopy ; Ruth F. Beeston and Hilary Becker ; 3. New Chemical Insights into the Ancient Molluskan Purple Dyeing Process ; Zvi C. Koren ; 4. Developing Direct Analysis in Real Time Time-of-Flight Mass Spectrometric ; Methods for Identification of Organic Dyes in Historic Wool Textiles ; Calvin J. Day, Cathy Selvius DeRoo, and Ruth Ann Armitage ; Residue Analysis ; 5. Organic Residues in Archaeology: The Highs and Lows of Recent ; Research ; Val Steele ; 6. 18th-Century Glue Recipes: Towards Identifying Glue Residues from Ferry ; Farm, George Washington's Boyhood Home ; Daniel Fraser, Mara Kaktins, and Ruth Ann Armitage ; 7. Physicochemical Study of Black Pigments in Prehistoric Paints from ; Oxtotitlan Cave, Guerrero, Mexico ; Joseph McPeak, Mary D. Pohl, Christopher L. von Nagy, Heather Hurst, ; Marvin W. Rowe, Eliseo F. Padilla Gutierrez, and Jon Russ ; 8. Plasma Oxidation of Organic Residues on Modern Stone Tools ; Karen L. Steelman and Hayden Burger ; 9. GC-MS Characterization of Carbohydrates in an Archaeological Use ; Residue: A Case Study from the Coahuila Desert ; Badrinath Dhakal and Ruth Ann Armitage ; X-ray Fluorescence in Archaeometry ; 10. Portable X-ray Fluorescence and Archaeology: Limitations of the ; Instrument and Suggested Methods To Achieve Desired Results ; Aaron N. Shugar ; 11. Source Analysis of Prehistoric Obsidian Artifacts in Sicily (Italy) Using ; pXRF ; Robert H. Tykot, Kyle P. Freund, and Andrea Vianello ; 12. Investigating Obsidian Procurement at Integration Period (ca. AD ; 700-1500) Tola Sites in Highland Northern Ecuador via Portable X-ray ; Fluorescence (pXRF) ; Eric Dyrdahl and Robert J. Speakman ; 13. Advantages and Disadvantages of pXRF for Archaeological Ceramic ; Analysis: Prehistoric Pottery Distribution and Trade in NW Florida ; R. H. Tykot, N. M. White, J. P. Du Vernay, J. S. Freeman, C. T. Hays, M. Koppe, ; C. N. Hunt, R. A. Weinstein, and D. S. Woodward ; 14. Interregional Interaction and Dilmun Power in the Bronze Age: A ; Provenance Study of Ceramics from Bronze Age Sites in Kuwait and ; Bahrain Using Non-Destructive pXRF Analysis ; Hasan J. Ashkanani and Robert H. Tykot ; 15. pXRF Analysis of Arsenic When Lead Is Present: A Cautionary Tale ; Marvin W. Rowe, Sally J. Cole, and Mohammed Yousuf ; 16. Metal Plate Connectors and Iron Nails on the Tripitaka Koreana Printing ; Woodblocks ; Choon Ho Do, Chong-Hong Pyun, Byung-Yong Yu, and Jung Hyun Bae ; Isotopes, Dating, and ; Materials Analysis ; 17. A Brief Update on Developments in Early Hominin Biogeochemistry ; Matt Sponheimer, Julia A. Lee-Thorp, and Daryl Codron ; 18. Seeking the Local 87Sr/86Sr Ratio To Determine Geographic Origins of ; Humans ; James H. Burton and T. Douglas Price ; 19. Reconstructing Paleoenvironments in the Western Desert, Egypt: ESR ; Dating Freshwater Molluscs from Kharga Oasis ; Anne R. Skinner, Bonnie A. B. Blackwell, Maxine R. Kleindienst, Jennifer R. Smith, ; Johanna M. Kieniewicz, Katherine A. Adelsberger, C. S. "Rufus" Churcher, ; Aislinn E. Deely, Faizullah Mashriqi, Kassandra V. Spiller, Joel I. B. Blickstein, ; Jane J. J. Gong, and Rebecca A. Long ; 20. Laser AblationDSInductively Coupled PlasmaDSMass Spectrometry ; (LA-ICP-MS) Analysis of Refired Glass Pendants from the North American ; Upper Great Lakes ; Heather Walder ; 21. Analysis of Samples Excavated from a Royal Tomb in El Zotz: Application ; of Materials Science Characterization Techniques in Archaeology ; Kristina A. Cheung, Nuoya Xie, Zhaoying Yao, Stephen Houston, Sarah Newman, ; Edwin Rene Roman-Ramirez, Thomas Garrison, Christian Fischer, Vanessa Muros, ; Sergey Prikhodko, and Ioanna Kakoulli ; 22. Preliminary Results on Biomimetic Methods Based on Soluble Ammonium ; Phosphate Precursors for the Consolidation of Archaeological Wall ; Paintings ; Magdalena Balonis-Sant, Xiao Ma, and Ioanna Kakoulli ; Archaeological Chemistry: ; Then and Now ; 23. "Comin' in on a Wing and a Prayer": Archaeological Chemistry Since ; 1790 ; A. M. Pollard ; Editors' Biographies ; Indexes ; Author Index ; Subject Index