Archaeological studies of island and coastal societies have advanced significantly over the
years. Long marginalized as relatively recent developments, coastal, maritime, and island …

Cultural heritage represents a bridge between the contemporary society and the past
populations, and a strong collaboration between archaeologists, art historians and analysts …

As I have discussed in the last chapter, our goal here is not to elucidate XRF for the entire
scientific community–this has been done admirably by others–but to translate the physics …

One of the first applications of LA–ICP–MS analysis to the characterization of ancient glass
was carried out at the beginning of the nineties. Then the use of this technique for …

2 1 Introduction agree on any single scheme for faunal successions, and, secondly, instead
of using presence-absence of species, Lartet used the relative abundance of species. How …

To examine possible links between neurotoxicant exposure and neuropsychological
disorders and child behavior, relative concentrations of lead, mercury, and manganese were …

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 …

The characterisation of prehistoric pottery fragments presents a quite complex task. In
provenance studies, petrographic and chemical analyses of the ceramic materials are …

Distributed power systems in the US and globally are evolving to provide reliable and clean
energy to consumers. In California, existing regulations require significant increases in …

Although Scandinavian flint is one of the most important materials used for prehistoric stone
tool production in Northern and Central Europe, a conclusive method for securely …