Archaeological Analysis and Characterization of Ceramics Materials
A special issue of Applied Sciences (ISSN 2076-3417). This special issue belongs to the section "Materials Science and Engineering".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 30 September 2024 | Viewed by 136
Special Issue Editor
Interests: archaeological ceramic materials; glaze and pigment; heterogeneity; deterioration; microstructure; compositional variability; physical chemistry; colouring mechanism; reverse engineering; provenance identification
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Excavated or handed-down archaeological ceramics often implicate a sophisticated level of craft practice and an advanced understanding of materials. Archaeological ceramics manufactured by ancient craftsmen have a common feature of heterogeneity, and the long-term effect of environment may cause additional alterations as well. This Special Issue aims to promote the development and use of scientific techniques for the extraction of archaeological and scientific information on ceramics materials and the paleo-environment, so as to provide evidence for the interpretation and reverse-engineering of the production, trade, and evolution of ceramics materials.
Topics of interest include, but are not limited to, the following:
- New methods and techniques;
- Data processing and interpretation;
- Dating, provenance, and technology exchange;
- Kiln and firing technology;
- Compositional variability;
- Morphology and microstructure at various levels and scales;
- Alteration and conservation;
- Experimental archaeology;
- Reverse engineering.
Prof. Dr. Weidong Li
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- archaeological ceramics materials
- data processing and interpretation
- dating
- provenance
- alteration
- reverse-engineering
