Current Research at the Conservation Research Laboratory at Texas A&M University

Part of: Society for Historical Archaeology 2020

This collection contains the abstracts of the papers presented in the session entitled "Current Research at the Conservation Research Laboratory at Texas A&M University," at the 2020 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology.

The Conservation Research Laboratory (CRL) at Texas A&M University is one of the oldest continuously operated conservation laboratories specializing in material from underwater archaeological sites in the world. Currently, the CRL is conserving artifacts and watercraft from archaeological sites from a wide array of time periods and georgraphical locales around the United States, and this session offers a snapshot into the various aspects of conservation techniques and archaeological research that is currently underway at the CRL.

Other Keywords
Conservation • Preservation • Reconstruction • Trade • Ironclad • Tobacco • Pipes • Experiment • Civil War • Hide

Temporal Keywords
Civil War • 19th Century • 18th Century • Colonial • 18th to 19th century • ~9 • 000 years BP

Geographic Keywords
Massachusetts (State / Territory) • New York (State / Territory) • New Hampshire (State / Territory) • Idaho (State / Territory) • Maine (State / Territory) • Wisconsin (State / Territory) • Michigan (State / Territory) • Washington (State / Territory) • Minnesota (State / Territory) • Vermont (State / Territory)