Dr
TaeJoo Kim
(Korea Atomic Energy Research Institute)
11/10/2017, 18:00
Poster presentation
Cultural heritages are from the past and must be passed on to future generations. Information of cultural heritages, especially the internal structure and composition, is important for its conservation. Such Information of cultural heritages is also important source for the study of ancient manufacturing technologies and its function. Interestingly, some heritages contain other historic relics...
Dr
Seonbok Yi
(Seoul National University), Prof.
Yong-Joo Jwa
(Gyeongsang National University)
11/10/2017, 18:00
Poster presentation
Provenance study of prehistoric obsidian artifacts provides a clue to understanding various aspects of the ancient culture in consideration. So far, estimation of the source of the obsidians found in archaeological context has usually been made by analyzing their geochemical characteristics. Geochemical information has been acquired by such analytical methods as pXRF, PIXE, ICP, ICP-MS, etc....
Dr
Adel Len
(MTA WIGNER FK),
Katalin Bajnok
(Wigner research Centre for Physics, Hungarian Academy of Sciences)
11/10/2017, 18:00
Neutron scattering
Poster presentation
Small Angle Neutron Scattering measurements on archaeological ceramic samples have been performed at the Yellow Submarine and FSANS instruments at Budapest Neutron Centre. The main objective of the present study was to deepen our knowledge about the limits and usefulness of the SANS method regarding ceramic samples, therefore a series of reference samples and also Late Roman / Early Medieval...
Dr
Friedrich Wagner
(Physics Department, Technical University of Munich)
11/10/2017, 18:00
Poster presentation
Determination of the chlorine content of archaeological iron artefacts by prompt gamma activation analysis (PGAA)
F.E. Wagner (a), R. Gebhard (b), Zs. Révay (c), P. Albert (b), K. Kleszcz (c), H. Hess (b), P. Kudejova (b), Ch. Stieghorst (c)
(a)Physics Department E 15, Technical University of Munich, James-Franck-Straße 1, 85747 Garching, Germany; (b) Archäologische Staatssammlung München,...
Dr
Sándor Sztáncsuj
(Székely National Museum, Sfântu Gheorghe)
11/10/2017, 18:00
Poster presentation
Ariuşd (Erősd)-Tyiszk-hegy is a multi-layered (tell) settlement of the Copper Age, eponym site of the Ariuşd Group, the South-Western branch of the Cucuteni-Tripolye cultural complex. The investigation of lithic material from the site (including a number of 778 lithics) was recently started by the authors. Following the first results (Sztáncsuj et al. 2014), petrographical and geochemical...
Dr
John Gait
(Fitch Laboratory, British School at Athens)
11/10/2017, 18:00
Neutron imaging
Poster presentation
This poster presents the preliminary results of an investigation of pottery forming techniques combining petrographic analysis of ceramic thin sections with two-dimensional and three-dimensional neutron imaging.
Within the context of archaeological and anthropological studies of material culture, it has become increasingly recognised that the manner in which artefacts were produced may have...
Dr
Caijin Xiao
(China Institute of Atomic Energy), Ms
Xiangchun Jin
(China Institute of Atomic Energy), Dr
Yonggang Yao
(China Institute of Atomic Energy)
11/10/2017, 18:00
Poster presentation
This work presents a Monte Carlo code to get response spectrum of ions for the Neutron Depth Profiling (NDP) technique that simulates the behavior of ions transmitted through sample matrix and generates the energy spectrum for a specified detector. Based on the method of Monte Carlo simulation and probabilistic inversion for neutron depth profiling, the depth concentration distribution of...
Dr
Katalin T. Biró
(Hungarian National Museum)
11/10/2017, 18:00
Poster presentation
Tata-Porhanyó is one of the classical Middle Palaeolithic sites in Hungary.
The recognition of the site as a palaeontological locality dates back to the 18th century. Later on, it was one of the earliest Palaeolithic excavations in Hungary (1909), published by the excavator in 1912.
The site was re-discovered and excavated again by L. Vértes and his team in 1958 and 1959. The results were...
Dr
Francesco Grazzi
(Consiglio Nazionale Ricerche)
11/10/2017, 18:00
Poster presentation
Historical metallurgy is one of the most interesting fields of archaeometry, especially concerning the production and use of steel for arms and armour. It is evident from several analyses performed on steel samples that the production of arms and armour used cutting edge technology of that time so a study of such artefacts can give fundamental details about the technological skill of a...
Dr
Heather Chen-Mayer
(NIST)
11/10/2017, 18:00
Prompt gamma activation analysis
Poster presentation
Prompt gamma activation analysis (PGAA) is an elemental analysis technique using gamma rays emitted upon neutron capture by nuclei contained within a sample. It provides quantitative information for the elemental composition while maintaining the sample integrity. The primary limitation of PGAA, however, is that it is a bulk technique giving average concentrations, without spatial...
Dr
Massimo Rogante
(Rogante Engineering Office)
11/10/2017, 18:00
Multi-technique approach and complementary techniques
Poster presentation
Small angle neutron scattering (SANS) and dynamic neutron radiography (DNR) investigations have been performed for the non-destructive analysis of different ancient and new textiles.
SANS allowed comparing the nanostructure of ancient and modern linen fabrics, as well as studying the neutron scattering properties of different types of modern wool fibres, providing new data useful to...
Dr
Winfried Kockelmann
(STFC-Rutherford Appleton Laboratory)
11/10/2017, 18:00
Poster presentation
Bronze Age swords represent the peak of craftsmanship in terms of prehistoric weapon production. Following an extensive study on the manufacture and usage of Bronze Age swords from the Alpine region [1], we have used time-of-flight performed neutron diffraction on the General Materials Diffractometer (GEM) at the ISIS Facility, UK, to analyse ten swords in order to highlight the advantages and...
Mr
Duncan Atkins
(Institute Laue Langevin)
11/10/2017, 18:00
Neutron imaging
Poster presentation
D. Atkins(1), A. Tengattini(2), B. Giroud(1), E. Ando'(2), J. Beaucour(1), G. Viggiani(2)
1. Institut Laue-Langevin, 71 Avenue des Martyrs, 38042 Grenoble
2. Université Grenoble Alpes, CNRS, Grenoble INP, Institute of Engineering Univ. Grenoble Alpes, 3SR, F-38000 Grenoble, France
NeXT-Grenoble is a Neutron and x-ray imaging facility developed and now running in Grenoble, born from a...
Mr
Genki Hori
(Nagoya University)
11/10/2017, 18:00
Poster presentation
**Introduction**
In the case of iron cultural properties such as Japanese sword and matchlock gun, manufacturing techniques and material characteristics are not clear. To get detailed information about crystallographic characteristics of those iron artifacts is desired for elucidating them. In the analysis of precious iron cultural properties, nondestructive evaluation is...
Dr
Bogdan Constantinescu
(– National Institute for Nuclear Physics and Engineering “Horia Hulubei”, Bucharest – 077125, ROMANIA)
11/10/2017, 18:00
Poster presentation
Prompt Gamma Activation Analysis (PGAA) is a perfect tool to determine the bulk elemental concentrations of valuable artefacts, without the destruction of the objects. PGAA was applied at the Budapest Neutron Centre to determine the bulk elemental composition for some glass archaeological samples from Romanian museums.
Glass archaeological samples were fragments of colored Byzantine glass...
Dr
Bogdan Constantinescu
(National Institute for Nuclear Physics and Engineering “Horia Hulubei”, Bucharest – 077125, ROMANIA)
11/10/2017, 18:00
Poster presentation
Prompt Gamma Activation Analysis (PGAA) is a perfect tool to determine the bulk elemental concentrations of valuable artefacts, without the destruction of the objects. PGAA was applied at the Budapest Neutron Centre to determine the bulk elemental composition for obsidian archaeological samples from Romanian museums.
Archaeological obsidian items especially from Transylvania and geological...
Dr
Massimo Rogante
(Rogante Engineering Office)
11/10/2017, 18:00
Poster presentation
External milli-beam particle induced X-ray emission spectroscopy (PIXE) has been used as non-destructive technique to investigate ancient linen fabrics from pre-dynastic and Ptolemaic ages belonging to the archaeological collections of the Egyptian Museum of Turin and to the Civic Archaeological Museum of Bologna, Italy.
9 linen fabric samples dated from Old Kingdom to Ptolemaic ages...
Mr
Almat Yergashov
(Joint Institute for Nuclear Research)
11/10/2017, 18:00
Poster presentation
The method of neutron resonance spectroscopy – Neutron Resonance Capture Analysis (NRCA) is developed in the Laboratory of Neutron Physics for the purpose of determination of the element composition of samples. Identification of elements and isotopes is carried out by measuring the energy of neutron resonances in the reaction of radiative capture, and their content in the sample is determined...
Dr
Géza Szabó
(Wosinsky Museum, Szekszárd)
11/10/2017, 18:00
Poster presentation
The discovery of the gigantic bronze spiral at Abaújdevecser (North-eastern Hungary) in 2002 startled Hungarian archaeology: the 43 cm long, 4 cm thick, 12 kg object was absolutely unprecedented that time. Due to some other fortunate ‘discoveries’ latterly, fragments of similarly large bronze spirals has come to the forefront of archaeological research in the last two years. In the...
Dr
Danyal Turkoglu
(NIST), Dr
Heather Chen-Mayer
(NIST)
11/10/2017, 18:00
Poster presentation
Isotopes emit characteristic prompt gamma (γ) rays immediately after neutron capture. In prompt gamma-ray activation analysis (PGAA), a high-resolution spectrometer measures γ-ray energies and intensities that are used for quantitative analysis of elemental composition of a bulk sample. In addition to the prompt γ rays, decay γ rays can be used for elemental assay.
To enhance the...
