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Preliminary Program:
1. In situ preservation and reburials
1.1 Presentation: Deepwater Preservation and Management of Archaeological Sites. Presentation of the DePMAS Project
1.2 Presentation: Reburial and analyses of archaeological remains - The RAAR project. Phase II
1.3 Presentation: Monitoring in situ preservation of shipwrecks
1.4 Presentation: Reburial of wood on land
2. Degradation and stability studies - analytical techniques
2.1 Presentation: Studying and manipulating bacterial wood decay – results of laboratory experiments
2.2 Presentation: Waterlogged wood from the Miocene forest of Bükkábrány: A preliminary investigation of material morphology and chemistry.
2.3 Presentation: Bone, Antler and Ivory as Environmental Markers in Marine and Lacustrine Environments
2.4 Presentation: Environmental Scanning Electron Microscopy (ESEM): an effective analytical tool for comparing reagents used in the conservation of waterlogged wood
2.5 Presentation: Formic acid as a marker molecule for polyethylene glycol degradation in conserved archaeological wood – a radiocarbon study
2.6 Presentation: Oxygen measurements in conserved archaeological wood
2.7 Presentation: Evaluating long-term stability of waterlogged archaeological wooden objects through determination of moisture sorption isotherms and conductivity in
conserved objects and impregnation agents
2.A Poster Measurement of responses in archaeological wood to ambient temperature and relative humidity – Case study - The Oseberg ship
2.B Poster: The Stirling castle wood recording project
2.C Poster: Mapping PEG diffusion into waterlogged wood samples. A low tech. approach versus a high tech. approach.
3. Wood conservation strategies, methods, materials and case stories
3.1 Presentation: Quo vadis- do we need swimming stadiums for waterlogged wood conservation?
3.2 Presentation: Presentation Title: The Newport Ship - the double challenge of community.
3.3 Presentation: The Yenikapı Shipwrecks: Dismantling Methods and First Step to Conservation
3.4 Presentation: The conservation and presentation of a Roman barge
3.5 Presentation: Twenty-five years later: the treatment and display of a group of XVII century boats
3.6 Presentation: Preliminary Assessment of a New PEG
3.7 Presentation: Bacteria/Fungi: A Growing Concern for Waterlogged Wood
3.8 Presentation: A strategy for testing impregnation agents for waterlogged archaeological wood –
examination of azelaic acid as an impregnation agent
3.9 Presentation: Study of the azelaïc / palmitic acids association to treat waterlogged archaeological wood
3.10 Presentation: Dimensional stability and ultrastructural features of waterlogged wood reinforced by pure feather keratin
3.11 Presentation: Keratin as a bulking and stabilisation agent for waterlogged archaeological wood
3.12 Presentation: Conservation of Waterlogged Mayan Paddle
3.13 Presentation: Evaluating Treatments for Waterlogged Lignum Vitae Objects from the USS Monitor
3.14 Presentation: Conserving Waterlogged Archaeological Corks Using Supercritical CO2 and Monitoring Their Shrinkage Using Structured-Light 3D Scanning
3.A Poster: The ability of waterlogged woods to resist freezing 3.B Poster: Controlled-drying of Saxon Bridge timbers from Sucrose pre-treatment
3.C Poster: Analysis of Sugars Used for Conservation of pre-Columbian Dugout Log Canoes Recovered from Lake Phelps, North Carolina.
4. Sulphur, Iron, Alumn and other inorganics in wood
4.1 Presentation: Nuclear Magnetic Resonance and Fourier Transform Infra-red Spectroscopic Analyses of Acid-Affected Waterlogged Archaeological Wood
4.2 Presentation: Accelerated aging of recent oak – impact from of iron ions and oxygen on mechanical properties in the longitudinal direction
4.3 Presentation: Iron Removal from Waterlogged Wood and the Effects on Wood Chemistry
4.4 Presentation: Iron extraction of wood– a tool for conservators?
4.5Presentation: Possible use of the Calcium complex of EDTA to remove Iron
4.6 Presentation: The chemistry of the Vasa – a résumé
4.7 Presentation: Extraction of sulfur compounds from archaeological wood by chemical oxidation
with sodium persulfate
4.8 Presentation The de-acidification of waterlogged archaeological Mary Rose timbers with Sr-based
nanoparticles
4.9 Presentation Re-Conservation of Wood from the Seventeenth Century Swedish Warship the Vasa with
Alkoxysilanes: A Re-Treatment Pilot Study Applying Thermosetting Elastomers
4.10 Presentation: Past Conservation Treatments and their Consequences – the Oseberg Find as a Case Study
4.11 Presentation: The use of an electric field for the removal of alum from treated wooden objects
4.12 Presentation: Reconservation of wood treated with alumn in the 1920ties – challenges and strategies.
5. Analyses and conservation of leather, bone and other organic materials
5.1 Presentation: Assessing the physical condition of waterlogged archaeological leather
5.2 Presentation: A comparative study of various impregnation and drying methods for waterlogged archaeological leather
5.3 Presentation: Efficiency and Quality in a Batch Treatment: the conservation of over a hundred leather shoes and fragments
5.4 Presentation: A neolitic shoe from Sipplingen – Conservation and technological examination
5.5 Presentation: Conservation of Thule Skin Clothing from the Sannirajaq Site, Nunavut
5.6 Presentation: Excavating highly degraded waterlogged textiles co-mingled with human remains: a case
study from the Hunley Project
5.7 Presentatio: A new approach to handling and preserving waterlogged archaeological textiles and artefacts from the American Civil War Submarine H.L.Hunley
5.8 Presentation: Conservation of a Marine Composite (Copper/Textile) from the 19th century Shipwreck Patris in Greece
5.9 Presentation: Analyses of Plant Fiber Artefacts from a Shipwreck: Application of Material History Methodology
5.10 Presentation: Polyethylene Glycol Treatments for Basketry on the Northwest Coast of North America
5.11 Presentation: Conservation of waterlogged ivory
5.A Poster: Excavation and stabilization of a 17th century wicker basket: new application of a known method.
5.B Poster: Ship Caulking – the “leftovers” from the ship conservation projects