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In this paper I present the preliminary results of pXRF analysis of Shang-Dynasty bronzes from the Daxinzhuang site (1400-1046 BC), Jinan, Shandong province. The Daxinzhuang site has been receiving considerable research interests since the 1930s, especially when the high elite burials were excavated in 2003 and 2010. Much research has been focused on these burials and the elaborate bronzes, but there has not been any research on the chemical composition and casting techniques of the bronzes from...
Research and Conservation of Waterlogged Rubber Gaskets from USS Monitor (1862) (2021)
This is a poster submission presented at the 2021 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. In many ways, USS Monitor, the first iron vessel built by the Union during the American Civil War and commissioned in 1862, was the first mass-produced ship; component parts were bought straight off showroom floors, or were built at various industrial facilities throughout the U.S. Northeast. This led to varied rubber gaskets being used, potentially interchangeably, in different contexts....