Minerals, as raw structural materials or pigments, play a fundamental role in archaeometry,
for the understanding of nature, structure and status of an artefact or object of interest for …

During the past decade, Raman spectroscopy has been increasingly applied for the analysis
of objects of art and antiquities. Since the publication of the database of Raman spectra of …

The Pigment Compendium Dictionary is a comprehensive information source for scientists,
art historians, conservators and forensic specialists. Drawn together from extensive …

Improvements in the instrumentation for dispersive and interferometric Fourier transform (FT)
Raman microscopy have overcome many of the earlier limitations of these techniques, thus …

This manuscript represents the third and final volume in the publication of the Hellenistic
pottery unearthed by the American excavations in the Athenian Agora. The first installment …

This review describes the application of selected spectroscopic techniques to the world of
cultural heritage conservation. In recent times, science and technology have been applied to …

In the present paper, the muscovite and biotite phyllosilicates minerals from the Nilore mica
belt, India, have been studied using a combination of different techniques. Vibrational …

Raman and infrared microscopy have been used to characterise the black pigments on
prehistoric Southwest American black-on-white pottery. Conclusive spectroscopic evidence …

Special kinds of petrified wood of complex structure were investigated. All the samples were
composed of at least two different inorganic substances. The original cell structure was …

A review of the results of the complementary use of vibrational spectroscopy (infrared and
Raman) and X-ray powder diffraction in the process of identification and spectra–structure …