The Archaeomaterials Science Hub (ASH), is a research facility established by Assoc Prof Grave, a lead researcher in archaeological materials science in Australia. ASH not only has state-of-the-art analytical capacity and technical support for a wide range of materials and methods, the combination of which is without parallel nationally, but also an excellent national and international collaborative network for areas not directly covered by ASH expertise (e.g. phytoliths) or equipment (eg NAA) with research groups or laboratories in Canada, the US (Santa Clara University), the UK (Manchester University), and France (CNRS, Lyon).
Materials Analysis Capacity
Grave, P., L. Kealhofer, B. Marsh, U. Schoop, J. Seeher, J.W. Bennett, A. Stopic, 2014 Ceramic, trade, provenience and geology: Cyprus in the late Bronze Age. Antiquity 88: 1180-1200
Inorganic and organic chemistry
XRF
pXRF
pFTIR
istable isotope
HPCL-MS
sorbtion/desorbtion kinetics
thermal dynamics
Imaging
SEM
MicroCT
Materials expertise
archaeological ceramics
metals
bone