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Conservation of Wood Artifacts
Unger, Achim; Schniewind, Arno P.; Unger, Wibke
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Description for Conservation of Wood Artifacts
Hardback. This handbook is a comprehensive source of information on the history of wood conservation. It provides many techniques of wood conservation in detail, and gives an overview of the use of particular materials and methods as they apply to dry as well as wet or waterlogged wood. Series: Natural Science in Archaeology. Num Pages: 595 pages, 35 black & white tables, biography. BIC Classification: ABC; GM; TDJ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 162 x 242 x 38. Weight in Grams: 1018.
The impetus for this book was the desire to systematically organize the extant literature on the conservation of cultural property made of wood, from its beginnings before the Christian Era to the year 2000. Various published reviews and monographs, including Holzkonservierung (Wood Conserva tion) published by the senior author in 1988, have appeared over the years, especially in English and in German. They have provided exemplary treat merit of individual areas or aspects of wood conservation, but a comprehen sive, up-to-date exposition of historic and current developments has been lacking. The diverse professional fields of the authors, as well as ... Read more
The impetus for this book was the desire to systematically organize the extant literature on the conservation of cultural property made of wood, from its beginnings before the Christian Era to the year 2000. Various published reviews and monographs, including Holzkonservierung (Wood Conserva tion) published by the senior author in 1988, have appeared over the years, especially in English and in German. They have provided exemplary treat merit of individual areas or aspects of wood conservation, but a comprehen sive, up-to-date exposition of historic and current developments has been lacking. The diverse professional fields of the authors, as well as ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2001
Publisher
Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. KG Germany
Number of pages
595
Condition
New
Series
Natural Science in Archaeology
Number of Pages
578
Place of Publication
Berlin, Germany
ISBN
9783540415800
SKU
V9783540415800
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Ref
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Reviews for Conservation of Wood Artifacts
From the reviews "This is a landmark book for the conservation profession written by wood scientists who understand the need to establish a current, annotated, and well-referenced work on the research and publications related to wood conservation. It establishes a new level of professional scholarship on the subject of wood conservation by bringing together an extraordinary amount of ... Read more