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  title info:
    title: Hair today, gone tomorrow
    sub title: the degradation and conservation of archaeological hair fibers
  name:
    name part: Sager, Rebecca (Rebecca M.)
    role:
      role term: creator
  name:
    name part: Smith, C. Wayne
    role:
      role term: thesis advisor.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: txu
    date issued: 2010
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: electronic
    form: remote
    extent: 1 online resource.
  abstract: The research of this work describes the degradation and conservation of archaeological hair fibers. Chapter I will be a brief overview, with Chapter II following with a literary review and definition of terms. Chapter III focuses on research centered on the structure of hair fibers and their physical and chemical attributes. It will also focus on the archaeological and historical evidence of hair fiber use by humans. This research will help form the backbone of the paper and experiments performed. The next chapter focuses on the degradation of hair fibers in different environments. Hair fibers left in underwater, open air, burial, and arid environments are monitored for degree of degradation and brittleness. The hair fiber types used are four commonly found hair fibers types: coarse wool, fine wool, mohair, and human hair. After deposition, conservation using silicone oil treatment is tested on the degraded hair fibers. When silicone oil treatment proves to be a viable conservation method, the technique is then be applied to two artifacts. The two artifacts used are a Victorian era watch fob made from human hair and hair fibers mixed with tar from the excavation of Kittern in Bulgaria. Chapter VII deals with the conclusions of the experiments as a whole. The degradation of the fibers in different environmental conditions show that burial in acidic sandy clay is the most detrimental to hair fibers, while hair fibers from arid, dry environments are brittle, but well preserved aesthetically. The silicone oil treatments are shown to be viable treatment methods with positive results for all of the fibers tested, including two artifacts, a Victorian watch fob made from human hair fibers and hair fibers mixed with a tar-like substance from the shipwreck Kittern in Bulgaria.
  note: by Rebecca M. Sager.
  note: "Major Subject: Anthropology"
  note: Title from author supplied metadata (automated record created 2010-03-12 12:08:51).
  note: Electronic resource.
  note: Master of Arts Texas A&M University 2008 http://hdl.handle.net/1969.1/ETD-TAMU-2646
  note: Includes bibliographical references.
  note: Text (Thesis)
  subject:
    topic: Major anthropology
  subject:
    topic: Hair Fibers
  subject:
    topic: Degradation
  subject:
    topic: Conservation
  identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/1969.1/ETD-TAMU-2646
  record info:
    record content source: TXA
    record creation date: 100429
    record change date: 20151201150210.0
    record identifier: in00002569342