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  schema location: http://www.loc.gov/mods/v3 http://www.loc.gov/standards/mods/v3/mods-3-2.xsd
  title info:
    title: Molecular and Structural Archaeology: Cosmetic and Therapeutic Chemicals
  title info:
    title: Proceedings of the NATO Advanced Research Workshop, Erice, Sicily, Italy from 23 to 27 May 2002
  name:
    name part: Tsoucaris, Georges.
    role:
      role term: creator
  name:
    name part: Lipkowski, Janusz.
  name:
    name part: SpringerLink (Online service)
  type of resource: text
  genre: Electronic books.
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: ne
    date issued: 2003
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: remote
    extent: 1 online resource (296 pages)
  abstract: The book delineates the contours of molecular and structural archaeology as an emergent interdisciplinary field based on structural analysis at the molecular level and examines novel methodologies to reconstruct the synthesis and long-term transformation of materials used in antiquity. The focus of this volume is on cosmetic and therapeutic materials. As such, it casts an entirely new light on the knowledge possessed by the ancients, based on the complete identification of complex materials and preparations found in closed vessels in ancient tombs. It appears that as early as 2000 BCE the necessary technology was available to conduct wet chemical synthesis of new compounds not known as natural products. The materials as we analyze them today, of course, have their own prior history, and disentangling the effects of extreme long-term storage forms part of the puzzle, which may possibly be resolved by means of simulation experiments.
  note: edited by Georges Tsoucaris, Janusz Lipkowski.
  note: Electronic resource.
  subject:
    topic: Social sciences
  subject:
    topic: Chemistry
  subject:
    topic: Physical organic chemistry
  subject:
    topic: Medicine
  subject:
    topic: Archaeology
  subject:
    topic: Archaeology
  subject:
    topic: Chemistry
  subject:
    topic: Medicine
  subject:
    topic: Physical organic chemistry
  subject:
    topic: Social sciences
  classification: CC1-960
  classification: 930.1
  related item:
    title info:
      title: NATO ASI Series, Series II: Mathematics, Physics and Chemistry, ; 117
  identifier: 9789401001939 (electronic bk.)
  identifier: 9401001936 (electronic bk.)
  identifier: http://proxy.library.tamu.edu/login
  record info:
    record content source: I9W
    record creation date: 121227
    record change date: 20260422180648.4
    record identifier: in00003552662
    language of cataloging:
      language term: eng