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PRELIMINARY PROGRAM,


THE 11TH ICOM‐CC WOAM WG CONFERENCE IN GREENVILLE, NORTH CAROLINA,


MAY 24‐28, 2010

1. In situ preservation and reburials

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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

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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

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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 water logged

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

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4.11 Presentation

Nuclear Magnetic Resonance and Fourier Transform Infra‐red Spectroscopic

Analyses of Acid‐Affected Waterlogged Archaeological Wood

2.1 Presentation

Accelerated aging of recent oak – impact from of iron ions and oxygen on

mechanical properties in the longitudinal direction

4.4 Presentation Iron Removal from Waterlogged Wood and the Effects on Wood Chemistry

4.3 Presentation Iron extraction of wood– a tool for conservators?

4.10 Presentation Possible use of the Calcium complex of EDTA to remove Iron

4.5 Presentation The chemistry of the Vasa – a résumé

4.6 Presentation

Extraction of sulfur compounds from archaeological wood by chemical oxidation

with sodium persulfate

4.7 Presentation

The de‐acidification of waterlogged archaeological Mary Rose timbers with Sr‐based

nanoparticles

4.1 Presentation

Re‐Conservation of Wood from the Seventeenth Century Swedish Warship the Vasa with

Alkoxysilanes: A Re‐Treatment Pilot Study Applying Thermosetting Elastomers

4.9 Presentation

Past Conservation Treatments and their Consequences – the Oseberg Find as a Case

Study

4.8 Presentation The use of an electric field for the removal of alum from treated wooden objects

4.2 Presentation Reconservation of wood treated with alumn in the 1920ties – challenges and strategies.

5. Analyses and conservation of leather, bone and other organic materials

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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 Presentation

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

5.1 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