文档介绍：ANALYTICAL CHEMISTRY
IN ARCHAEOLOGY
. Pollard
Research Laboratory for Archaeology and the History of Art,
University of Oxford, UK
. Batt and B. Stern
Department of Archaeological Sciences,
University of Bradford, UK
. Young
NASA Researcher, Department of Chemistry, Tufts University,
Medford, Massachusetts, USA
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CONTENTS
List of figures page ix
List of tables xii
Preface xiii
PART I THE ROLE OF ANALYTICAL CHEMISTRY
IN ARCHAEOLOGY 1
1. ARCHAEOLOGY AND ANALYTICAL CHEMISTRY 3
The history of analytical chemistry in archaeology 5
Basic archaeological questions 10
Questions of process 25
2. AN INTRODUCTION TO ANALYTICAL CHEMISTRY 31
What is chemistry? 31
Analytical chemistry 38
Special considerations in the analysis of archaeological material 42
PART II THE APPLICATION OF ANALYTICAL
CHEMISTRY TO ARCHAEOLOGY 45
3. ELEMENTAL ANALYSIS BY ABSORPTI