2014_15
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Facultat de Lletres
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Arqueologia del Quaternari i Evolució Humana (Erasmus Mundus) (2012)
 Assignatures
  CARACTERITZACIÓ CRISTAL·LOGRÀFICA I QUÍMICA DE MATERIALS ARQUEOLÒGICS
   Continguts
Tema Subtema
1.1.Basic fundamentals in the materials and their characterization


Introductory sessions
1.2.Atomic Structure and interatomic bonding.composition of materials Atomic Structure. Electrons in atoms. Fundamental concepts.

The Periodic Table. Composition.

Atomic bonding in solids: Ionic, Covalent, Metallic.


The principal elements of the crust of the earth.
1.3. The Structure of crystalline solids Fundamental Concepts. Periodicity.

Unit cells. Crystal Systems.

Homogeneity, anisotropy and symmetry.


Morphology and crystalline structure.
1.4.Physical properties of materials Their relationships with the composition and the crystalline structure
1.5.Characterization techniques X-Ray Diffraction. Crystalline Powder X-R Diffraction
1.6.Minerals. Classification Minerals. General aspects and relative abundance.

Classification of minerals.
1.7.Practice Program 1.-Metals and a mixture of metals identification.
2.- Identification of a mixture of metals and an alloy.
3.- Study of the components of coins. Others metals samples.
4.-Characterization of the mineralization in natural products.
5.-Characterization of the mineralization in fossils.
6.- Different Silex samples.
7.- Characterization of the pigment and the substrate in an ancient picture.
8.- Visit to the Scientific Resources Service of the URV . X-Ray Diffraction equipments. Samples Preparation. Using Software and results analysis.
2.1 Archaeology and analytical chemistry


 - An introduction to analytical chemistry
- Archaeometry today
2.2 Dating methods

 - radiocarbon dating
- problems and limitations
2.3 Instrumental analysis
 - X-ray fluorescence
- commonly used spectroscopies
2.4 Extracting chemical information from data


 - cluster analysis
- principal components analysis
2.5 Recovery and analysis of DNA
 - DNA
- ancient DNA: retrieving information