About the Archaeomaterials Science Hub
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 (e.g. NAA) with research groups or laboratories in Canada, the US (Santa Clara University), the UK (Manchester University), and France (CNRS, Lyon).
Project lead
Associate Professor Peter Grave - Faculty of Humanities, Arts, Social Sciences and Education
Researcher profileProjects
This project uses stoneware production and exchange as a proxy for Khmer political expansion and contraction. This project aims to understand the economic and political dynamics of emerging, competing polities during the Early and Middle Iron Age (~1200-600 BCE) in central and west Anatolia. ARC Discovery – DP190102089.
Materials Analysis Capacity
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