For over 70 years the introduction of natural sciences to archaeology and cultural heritage
has been ever growing with multiple contributions to deciphering the past. Novel techniques …

This third edition of Reconstructing Quaternary Environments has been completely revised
and updated to provide a new account of the history and scale of environmental changes …

The chemical study of archaeological materials Archaeological Chemistry, Second Edition is
about the application of the chemical sciences to the study of ancient man and his material …

This book is an introduction to the study of artefacts, setting them in a social context rather
than using a purely scientific approach. Drawing on a range of different cultures and …

About fifty years ago Friedman and Smith [1] recognized the obsidian hydration
phenomenon and proposed an empirical dating method based on the conversion of the …

For 50 years, archaeologists and physical scientists have been dating, determining the
composition of and measuring stone tools, and reporting them in Archaeometry and many …

During all these years, starting as a junior medical student and researcher, and then as a
faculty member, I often wondered, what makes a perfect researcher, a perfect teacher, a …

The diffusion of water through the surface of archaeological obsidian is mainly a
temperature-dependent and concentration driven phenomenon that forms the basis of the …

Archaeological evidence regarding the presence of obsidian in levels that antedate the food
production stage could have been the result of usage or intrusion of small obsidian artifacts …

Obsidian occurs in the eastern Rift Valley region of Ethiopia, Eritrea, Kenya, and Tanzania,
and in a restricted region of West Africa, in Cameroon. Source locations and chemical …