EMF - Links Page

This area is constantly being updated. If you have any links that you think are appropriate, please e-mail A. Shugar with "emf link" in the subject line and the web pages url.

On this page you will be able to find links to various different aspects of and interests for archaeological material science The various interests that have links are;

Metallurgy
Ceramic
Obsidian and lithics
C-14 dating and other chronologic resources
Additional resources (Isotope and NAA) and,
Archaeomety centers
Archaeological Ethics and Law
Conservation

These links will be updated regularly and additional links and categories will be added.

These pages are the property of EMF. Please address all queries to the Webmaster. Site last updated on Feb 11, 2002.

Metallurgy

Ancient Metallurgy Group at Bradford
The Material Science-Based Archaeology Group at the Department of Materials, University of Oxford
SME -- Society for Mining, Metallurgy, and Exploration
TMS online -- The Minerals, Metals, and Materials Society
IAMS -- Institute for Archaeo-Metallurgical Studies
Archaeometallurgy Laboratory -- Lehigh University, PA, USA
English Heritage -- Archaeometallurgy in archaeological prjects
Historical Metallurgy Society -- HMS

Ceramics

Volume 9 of Internet Archaeology was a special issue devoted to the use
of ceramic petrology in the study of near eastern ceramics.
The Ceramic Petrology Group
Ceramic Petrology an introduction by Alan Vince:
Atlas of Roman Pottery
The Medieval Pottery Research Group
Archaeological Ceramic Building Materials Group
Ceramic Petrology

Obsidian and Lithic studies

Dendrochronology, C-14 dating, Luminescence, and other chronologic resources

The Laboratory for Wood Anatomy and Dendrochronology, Lund University, Sweeden
The Ancient Bristlecone Pine Home Page
The International Tree-Ring Data Bank (ITRDB)
The Malcom and Carolyn Wiener Laboratory for Aegean and Near Eastern dendrochronology
Dendrochronology at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography
Henri D. Grissino-Mayer's "Ultimate" Tree Ring Pages

Radiocarbon Dating Laboratory-- University of Waikato, NZ
University of Arizona Radiocarbon Lab's listing of Radiocarbon resources on the Internet
Woods Hole National Ocean Sciences AMS Facility
Oxford University AMS Lab .
Rafter Radiocarbon Laboratory
Radiocarbon Laboratory at the Desert Research Institute
Beta Analytic
C-14 Calibration software
- OxCal from the Oxford Radiocarbon Accelerator Unit
- CALIB 4.3 from the Quaternary Isotope Laboratory at the University of Washington
- CAL25: The Groningen Calibration Program: By J. van der Plicht, for DOS, updated with 1998 calibration data set.

Dalhousie TOSL Laboratory: Luminescence & Geochronology
University of Utah's Center for Applied Dosimetry
Luminescence dating at the The Sheffield Centre for International Drylands Research
University of Minnesota Biochronology Laboratory
Dating archaeoilogical features by measuring the ratio of the total carbon to the readily oxidizable carbon in the sample (OCR)

Isotope Research

The Centre for Isotope Research in Groningen
Prime Lab. (Purdue USA)
Mike Cheatham's List of Thermal Ionization Mass Spectrometry Groups

Neutron Activation Analysis

Archeometry Centers

Ancient Technologies and Archaeological Materials (ATAM)-- University of Illinois
Museum Applied Science Center for Archaeology (MASCA)
Archeometry Group at the ISKP, Universitat Bonn
Archaeometry Unit at the University of Alicante (Spain)
Archaeological Sciences at the University of Bradford
Oxford University's Research Lab for Archaeology and the History of Art
The Material Science-Based Archaeology Group at the Department of Materials, University of Oxford
Center for Advanced Spatial Technologies -- University of Arkansas
Laboratory for Archaeological Chemistry -- University of Wisconsin
Laboratorio de Prospeccion Arqueologica -- Instituto de Investigaciones Antropologicas
Conservation Analytical Laboratory at the Smithsonian Institution
Heidelberg Archaeometric Research Group
University of Barcelona's interdisciplinary team of researchers on Science and Technology applied to the Cultural Heritage
University of Cape Town's Archaeology Materials Laboratory
Archaeological thin-section laboratory at the University of Manitoba
British Museum's Deptartment of Scientific Research
CMRAE -- Center for Materials Reserach in Archaeology and Ethnology

Archaeological Ethics and Law

Ethics and law -- Columbia University
Code of Ethics of the Australian Archaeological Association
Looting matters

Conservation

Conservation DistList Archives
Conservation of Iron: Treatments and their consequences
CoOL -- Conservation Online
Journal of the American Institute for Conservation -- JAIC