Springer book on xrf in archaeology

Springer seems to be on a roll with archaeometry books! Here is another one edited by a veteran member and officer of the SAS, Steve Shackley.

X-Ray Fluorescence Spectrometry in Twenty-First Century Archaeology
M. Steven Shackley
2011, doi 10.1007/978-1-4419-6886-9_1
Springer
link to web site

Chapters in book:
X-Ray Fluorescence Spectrometry in Twenty-First Century Archaeology; M. Steven Shackley

An Introduction to X-Ray Fluorescence (XRF) Analysis in Archaeology; M. Steven Shackley

Factors Affecting the Energy-Dispersive X-Ray Fluorescence (EDXRF) Analysis of Archaeological Obsidian; M. Kathleen Davis, Thomas L. Jackson, M. Steven Shackley, Timothy Teague and Joachim H. Hampel

Non-destructive EDXRF Analyses of Archaeological Basalts; Steven P. Lundblad, Peter R. Mills, Arian Drake-Raue and Scott Kekuewa Kikiloi

Non-destructive Applications of Wavelength XRF in Obsidian Studies; Annamaria De Francesco, M. Bocci and G. M. Crisci

Portable XRF of Archaeological Artifacts: Current Research, Potentials and Limitations; Ioannis Liritzis and Nikolaos Zacharias

Elemental Analysis of Fine-Grained Basalt Sources from the Samoan Island of Tutuila: Applications of Energy Dispersive X-Ray Fluorescence (EDXRF) and Instrumental Neutron Activation Analysis (INAA) Toward an Intra-Island Provenance Study; Phillip R. Johnson

Comparison and Contrast Between XRF and NAA: Used for Characterization Of Obsidian Sources in Central Mexico; Michael D. Glascock

Is There a Future for XRF in Twenty-First Century Archaeology?; Rosemary A. Joyce

Consumer's Guide to Archaeological Science

Since we are on the theme of new books in archaeological science (thanks Rob), here is another one to add to the list:

A Consumer's Guide to Archaeological Science: Analytical Techniques

Mary E. Malainey

Charles E Orser, Editor

Michael B. Schiffer, Editor

2011, 603 pages

ISBN 978-1-4419-5703-0

Link to Springer

This volume is also available online as PDFs for purchase.

From the Preface:

"The information presented should enable an archaeologist to understand and critically evaluate:

-the suitability of various analytical techniques to address particular archaeological questions;

-the data generated through the application of these techniques

-the validity of the archaeological interpretations made on the basis of the data."

German book on archaeometry

Archäometrie: Methoden und Anwendungsbeispiele naturwissenschaftlicher Verfahren in der Archäologie

[Archeometry: physical and chemical methods for solving archeological problems. Examples and methods]

Editors: Andreas Hauptmann; Volker Pingel

2008. 264 pages, 138 figures, 7 tables, 16 plates

Language: Geman

ISBN 978-3-510-65232-7, price: 49.80 € 

E. Schweizerbart Science Publishers

I'm too lazy to translate the following, so try your German:

Die moderne Archäologie hat sich in ihrem methodischen Ansatz rasant weiterentwickelt und bedient sich heute in zunehmendem Maße naturwissenschaftlicher Methoden, um kulturhistorische Fragestellungen und Probleme zu lösen. Es gibt heute kaum noch archäologische Grabungen, an denen keine Naturwissenschaftler anderer Disziplinen mitarbeiten. 

In 13 Beiträgen beschreiben Fachleute der verschiedensten naturwissenschaftlichen Fachrichtungen, auf welche Weise Methoden und Konzepte (z.B. der Anthropologie, Biologie, Chemie, der Geowissenschaften und der Physik) Beiträge zur Beantwortung archäologischer und historischer Fragen leisten können. Es werden Verfahren zur Untersuchung archäologischer Funde organischer und anorganischer Zusammensetzung vorgestellt. Antiken Landschaftsveränderungen durch den Menschen wird z.B. mit Methoden der Geoarchäologie nachgespürt.

Mehrere Beiträge befassen sich mit der Bedeutung und Anwendung radiometrischer Datierungsverfahren in der Altertumsforschung. Auch Prospektionsmethoden, die in der Archäologie besondere Bedeutung erlangt haben, werden besprochen. Anwendungsbeispiele, u.a. aus der Luftbildarchäologie und der Geophysik illustrieren den praktischen Einsatz der vorgestellten Methoden.

Dieses Buch soll Forschern und Studierenden sowie allen an der archäologischen Forschung Interessierten die notwendigen Grundlagen der Archäometrie nahe bringen.

New book on archaeological chemistry

An Introduction to Archaeological Chemistry

Price, T. Douglas, Burton, James H. (both former SAS presidents!)

1st Edition., 2011, XXXII, 311 p. 47 illus., 27 in color., Hardcover
ISBN: 978-1-4419-6375-8
$169

From the Springer web site:

"Archaeological chemistry is a subject of great importance to the study and methodology of archaeology. This comprehensive text covers the subject with a full range of case studies, materials, and research methods. With twenty years of experience teaching the subject, the authors offer straightforward coverage of archaeological chemistry, a subject that can be intimidating for many archaeologists who do not already have a background in the hard sciences. With clear explanations and informative illustrations, the authors have created a highly approachable text, which will help readers overcome that intimidation. Topics covered included: Materials (rock, pottery, bone, charcoal, soils, metals, and others), Instruments (microscopes, NAA, spectrometers, mass spectrometers, GC/MS, XRF & XRD, Case Studies (Provinience, Sediments, Diet Reconstruction, Past Human Movement, Organic Residues). The detailed coverage and clear language will make this useful as an introduction to the study of archaeological chemistry, as well as a useful resource for years after that introduction."

Nice work, colleagues.

New book from Oxford University Press

Scientific Methods and Cultural Heritage

An introduction to the application of materials science to archaeometry and conservation science

Gilberto Artioli 

ISBN13: 9780199548262

 ISBN10: 0199548269  

Hardback, 368 pages

Aug 2010,  In Stock 

$117.00 (06)

From the web site, where more details are also available:

Description

Scientific techniques developed in materials science offer invaluable information to archaeology, art history, and conservation. A rapidly growing number of innovative methods, as well as many established techniques, are constantly being improved and optimized for the analysis of cultural heritage materials. The result is that on the one hand more complex problems and questions can be confronted, but on the other hand the required level of technical competence is widening the existing cultural gap between scientists and end users, such as archaeologists, museum curators, art historians, and many managers of cultural heritage who have a purely humanistic background.

The book is intended as an entry-level introduction to the methods and rationales of scientific investigation of cultural heritage materials, with emphasis placed on the analytical strategies, modes of operation, and resulting information rather than on technicalities. The extensive and updated reference list should be a useful starting point for further reading. Students and researchers from the humanities approaching scientific investigations should find it useful, as well as scientists applying familiar techniques and methods to unfamiliar problems related to cultural heritage.

Features

• Comprehensive approach to cultural heritage problems, bridging sciences and humanities
• Pedagogical, cross-disciplinary presentation, merging different strands of background information
• Easy to follow, suitable for undergraduate and graduate level teaching
• Emphasizes analytical strategies and resulting information rather than technicalties
• Richly illustrated
• Extensive and up-to-date reference list

Product Details

368 pages; 200 b/w line and halftone figures, 8pp color plates; 9.7 x 7.4; ISBN13: 978-0-19-954826-2ISBN10: 0-19-954826-9