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Investigation on restoration materials and techniques on bronze artifacts using non-invasive imaging and spectroscopic methods 非侵入式成像与光谱技术对青铜器修复材料与技术的研究

Advances in Archaeomaterials Pub Date : 2024-01-01 DOI: 10.1016/j.aia.2025.100043

Wei Liu , Pengyu Zhang , Yuliang Zhao , Na Wu

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Identifying recipes of historical cupels from Yunnan, China 鉴别中国云南历史杯具的配方

Advances in Archaeomaterials Pub Date : 2024-01-01 DOI: 10.1016/j.aia.2025.100044

Ao Sun, Huimin Wu, Tian Liu, Yuchen Wang, Siran Liu

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Ritual use, consumption, and depositional practices at Agriomernos Cave, Northwestern Samos (Greece): A ceramic analytical approach 希腊萨摩斯岛西北部 Agriomernos 洞穴的仪式使用、消费和沉积习俗：陶瓷分析方法

Advances in Archaeomaterials Pub Date : 2024-01-01 DOI: 10.1016/j.aia.2024.100041

Sergios Menelaou , Edyta Marzec , Fotis Georgiadis , Stella Katsarou , Anastasios Siros , Andreas Darlas

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From the hills to the sea: Mineralogical and chemical characterization of a roof tile assemblage from the Byzantine church at Ashdod-Yam (Israel) 从山到海：阿什杜德-亚姆（以色列）拜占庭教堂屋顶瓦组合的矿物学和化学特征

Advances in Archaeomaterials Pub Date : 2024-01-01 DOI: 10.1016/j.aia.2024.100040

Philip Ebeling , Liora Bouzaglou , Dana Ashkenazi , Johannes H. Sterba , Alexander Fantalkin

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The use and disappearance of vegetal fibres in clay–sand mixtures in furnace walls in pre-seventeenth-century iron smelting sites in the Chūgoku region (Japan) 17世纪前Chūgoku地区炼铁遗址炉壁粘土-砂混合物中植物纤维的使用和消失（日本）

Advances in Archaeomaterials Pub Date : 2023-01-01 DOI: 10.1016/j.aia.2024.100030

Xavier Michel-Tanaka (Associate professor)

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Casting the Buddha across Southern Asia 在南亚铸造佛像

Advances in Archaeomaterials Pub Date : 2023-01-01 DOI: 10.1016/j.aia.2024.100029

Donna Strahan

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Ipsa and Odong: Decorative metalwork of Korea 韩国的装饰金属制品

Advances in Archaeomaterials Pub Date : 2023-01-01 DOI: 10.1016/j.aia.2023.04.002

Paul T. Craddock , Alessandra Giumlia-Mair

{"title":"Ipsa and Odong: Decorative metalwork of Korea","authors":"Paul T. Craddock , Alessandra Giumlia-Mair","doi":"10.1016/j.aia.2023.04.002","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.aia.2023.04.002","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Inlay and patination are important elements in the prestige metalwork of East and Southeast Asia. There are several regional varieties, but they have many features in common, particularly in the use of a patinated copper alloy containing small amounts of gold. This in turn may suggest a common or at least linked ancestry, but probably no earlier than the sixteenth century. Most of this metalwork is no longer produced, but in Korea, production is still practised, albeit on a small scale. Based on the authors’ visits to workshops producing these items, this paper describes the present production of <em>ipsa</em> and <em>odong</em>. In <em>ipsa</em> pieces, wires—usually made of silver, gold, or brass—are hammered into the chased surface of the body metal, predominantly copper alloy or iron, which is then patinated. <em>Odong</em> items are usually complex composites made of several separate parts carefully soldered together in stages. An <em>odong</em> is an artificially patinated special copper alloy containing small amounts of gold, into which silver can be inlaid. Conversely, an <em>odong</em> can itself be inlaid into silver. Then follows a complex process to develop the deep purple-black patination common to all these traditional pieces produced in East and Southeast Asia.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":100038,"journal":{"name":"Advances in Archaeomaterials","volume":"4 ","pages":"Article 100022"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"87778818","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Evaluating accuracy and inter-laboratory reproducibility of the compositional analysis of ancient bronzes 评估古代青铜器成分分析的准确性和实验室间的可重复性

Advances in Archaeomaterials Pub Date : 2023-01-01 DOI: 10.1016/j.aia.2023.100027

Junling Lin , Yuankai Wang , Siran Liu , Wei Qian

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Surface matters: Decarburising wootz crucible steel ingots 表面物质：脱碳的木质坩埚钢锭

Advances in Archaeomaterials Pub Date : 2023-01-01 DOI: 10.1016/j.aia.2024.100042

Meghna Desai , Thilo Rehren , Marc Gener , Mokun Shan , Haiwen Luo , S. Jaikishan

{"title":"Surface matters: Decarburising wootz crucible steel ingots","authors":"Meghna Desai , Thilo Rehren , Marc Gener , Mokun Shan , Haiwen Luo , S. Jaikishan","doi":"10.1016/j.aia.2024.100042","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.aia.2024.100042","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Wootz, the Indian crucible steel, is a hypereutectoid iron–carbon alloy and famous for its outstanding qualities. Due to the paucity of archaeological and historical ingot finds and conservative sampling strategies, discussions of the homogeneity of such ingots and the microstructural representativeness of samples have remained generic and assumptive. Thus two major shortcomings in the study of crucible steel ingots include the determination of their absolute carbon content and its relative distribution across the ingots. The recent discovery of a large hoard of wootz ingots from Telangana (Jaikishan et al. 2021) offered a unique opportunity to study their microstructure and determine their carbon content.</div><div>Reports based on traditional metallography suggest a wide carbon range, from 1 to 2 wt% carbon, for similar ingots (Scott 2013). Recent work based on image analysis (Desai and Rehren 2023) offered narrower carbon estimates (about 1.8 wt%) for several of the recently discovered ingots, with some variation in concentration towards the edge of the samples. As a collaborative effort to determine absolute carbon values and potential uneven distribution of the carbon in the Telangana ingots, traditional metallography was coupled with laser-induced breakdown spectroscopy (LIBS). Beyond documenting the microstructure across several ingots, the study provides macrostructural evidence of rim decarburisation, which we believe to be intentional. This study presents the micro- and macrostructure of two of the hypereutectoid Telangana ingots, highlighting the skill of the craftsmen in decarburising the outer surfaces of their ingots, potentially for ease of subsequent forging.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":100038,"journal":{"name":"Advances in Archaeomaterials","volume":"4 ","pages":"Article 100042"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143293686","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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A Review of the History of Research in Lost-Wax Casting in Bronze Age China Over the Past Century 近百年来中国青铜时代失蜡铸造研究的历史回顾

Advances in Archaeomaterials Pub Date : 2022-12-01 DOI: 10.1016/j.aia.2023.06.002

Yang Huan, Du Jingnan

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