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Ahmed, Harby | SEM of Metal threads from Historical Egyptian Textile Image taken by Harby E. Ahmed Organization 6 2. Amicone, Silvia | Pottery from the Vinča culture site of Pločnik (Serbia) Picture taken by Silvia Amicone Introduction 9 3. Armitage, Ruth Ann | Images of rabbit hair textile and micrograph of rabbit hair fibers. Images provided by K. Jakes, Ohio Historical Society, Program Outline 11 Columbus Ohio 4. Cattin, Florence | Poignard grotte du Rhinocéros, Hérault Detailed Program with Oral Sessions Summary 12 Image courtesy of Sarah De Grandis Photography 5. Křivánek, Roman | 3D results of geoelectric resistivity measurements of List of Oral Abstract 18 abandoned Breda castle gardens near Lemberk in North Bohemia, Czech Republic. Image provided by Roman Křivánek List of Poster Abstracts 22 6. Madkour, Fatma | Roman amphora and the fragments before restoration processes. Identification and restoration of late Roman amphora 4th-6th Oral Sessions Abstracts 34 Centuries AD from El-Bahnasa site, Minia Eqypt 7. Constantinescu, Bogdan | Agighiol Helmet, National History Museum of Poster Sessions Abstracts 84 Romania. Photo by Bogdan Constantinescu 8. Fenn, Thomas | Leg guard from “Royal” burial in Tumulus 7, Durbi Floor plan UCLA 226 Takusheyi, Katsina region, Northern Nigeria. Photo by Thomas R. Fenn 9. Zipkin, Andrew | Red ochre with grinding striations from the MSA site of Directions 227 Chaminade 1A, Malawi. Photo by Andrew M. Zipkin, 2014 10. Gill, Maninder Singh | Detail of a glazed tile panel on the Tom of Ustad, Participant list 228 Nakodar, Punjab, India. Photo by M.S. Gill 11. Freund, Kyle | Bladelets from the Bronze Age site of Mitza Pidighi in GBC Scientific Equipment Sardinia, Italy. Photo by Kyle Freund and Deanna Aubert Sensitive Technology for a Sensitive World 12. Nagy, Zsolt | Cut surface of a gold coin from the Bodrogolaszi treasure Image taken by Zsolt Nagy The Optimass 9500 ICP Time-of-Flight Mass Spectrometer. 13. Colombini, Maria Perla | Part of the reconstructed fort at Biskupin This ICP-TOF-MS performs 30,000 acquisitions each second, Archaeological Museum. Photo by Magdalena Zborowska 14. Conger, Laura | Late Islamic Glass at site of Ancient Merv, Turkmenistan simultaneously measuring every mass and isotope from 1 to 260 (Ancient Merv Project). Photo by Laura Conger amu. Incorporating unique fingerprinting software feature and semi- 15. Pernicka, Ernst | Sky Disc of Nebra, the earliest astronomically correct quantitative retrospective analysis. representation of the night sky, dated ca. 1600 BCE. Photo courtesy of Landesamt für Denkmalpflege und Archäologie Sachsen-Anhalt, Juraj Lipták Our Mass Spec is 5 times faster than a quadrupole! 16. Rabin, Ira | SEM/EDX image of a Dead Sea Scrolls fragment. Image provided by Ira Rabin gbcscientific.com (USA) ISBN Info gbcsci.com (worldwide) All rights reserved. Except in those cases expressly determined by law, no part of this publication may be multiplied, saved in an automated datafile or made public in any way whatsoever without the express prior written consent of the publishers. 3 Organization Convenors ISA Local Organizing Committee The Standing Committee Archaeo-Chrometry Co-Chairs Marco Martini and Ed Rhodes Marc Walton Scott, David President NU-ACCESS/Northwestern University UCLA/Getty Conservation Program, Michael S. Tite From the Bronze Age to the Iron Age Cotsen Institute of Archaeology & Art History Department Research Laboratory for Archaeology and the History of Mark Pollard and Sturt Manning Ioanna Kakoulli Art, University of Oxford (UK) UCLA Materials Science and Engineering Department Stanish, Charles Ceramics, Glazes, Glass and Vitreous Materials UCLA/Getty Conservation Program UCLA Dept. of Anthropology Chairman Josefina Pérez-Arantegui and Patrick Degryse Cotsen Institute of Archaeology Yannis Maniatis Teutonico, Jeanne Marie Laboratory of Archaeometry, Institute of Materials Forensic Science Investigations in Art and Archaeology Abrams, Cari Getty Conservation Institute Science, N.C.S.R. “Demokritos” (Greece) Ioanna Kakoulli J. Paul Getty Trust Trentelman, Karen Members Human Environment Interactions and Bio-Materials Bestow, Andrea Getty Conservation Institute Luis Barba Bioarchaeology J. Paul Getty Trust National Autonomous University of Mexico (Mexico) Henk Kars ISA 2014 Logistics Manager Dodd, Lynn Swartz Mattison, Gary Katalin Biró Metals and Metallurgical Ceramics University of Southern California Getty Conservation Insitute Hungarian National Museum, Budapest (Hungary) Dave Killick and David Scott Archaeology Research Center and Religion Ron M. Farquhar Remote Sensing, Geophysical Prospection and Field Fischer, Christian University of Toronto (Canada) Archaeology UCLA Materials Science and Engineering Department Luis Barba and Rob Sternberg UCLA/Getty Conservation Program Henk Kars Cotsen Institute of Archaeology Institute for Geo- and Bioarchaeology, VU University Stone, Plaster and Pigments Amsterdam (The Netherlands) Robert Tykot and Christian Fischer Gilberg, Mark Los Angeles County Museum of Art Isabella Memmi Turbanti University of Siena (Italy) Lapatin, Kenneth J. Paul Getty Museum Jean-François Moreau Université du Québec à Chicoutimi (Canada) Papadopoulos, John UCLA Archaeology Program Josefina Pérez-Arantegui Cotsen Institute of Archaeology & Classics University of Zaragoza (Spain) Podany, Jerry Robert H. Tykot J. Paul Getty Museum University of South Florida, Tampa (USA) Preusser, Frank Changsui Wang Los Angeles County Museum of Art University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei (China) Prikhodko, Sergey UCLA Department of Materials Science and Engineering Rhodes, Edward UCLA Department of Earth and Earth Sciences 4 5 Introduction In the last several decades the application of the physical sciences to study, interpret and present cultural heritage has made great strides. This burgeoning field has been given several names with the most prominent being: archaeometry, archaeological science and cultural heritage science. At its core, it is an interdisciplinary field of research bringing together art historians, archaeologists and anthropologists with chemists, physicists and engineers to better understand and interpret the archaeological record. It has become well established that basic and applied science has tremendous value as aids to understand ancient human condition and agency through the interrogation of the material culture. This growing research effort has been directed towards the study of ancient materials as products of human activity such as pottery, glass, metals as well as the study of human remains. Despite the incredible potential, the focus has remained on what science can do for archaeology and not on the more complex issues imposed by the limitations of analysis and interpretation of a heterogeneous, fragile and inconsistent nature of the archaeological record. The International Symposium on Archaeometry (ISA) continues to