Educational guide Faculty of Arts |
english |
Quaternary Archaeology and Human Evolution (Erasmus Mundus) (2012) |
Subjects |
CRYSTALLOGRAPHIC CHARACTERIZATION AND CHEMISTRY OF ARCHAEOLOGICAL MATERIALS |
Contents |
IDENTIFYING DATA | 2016_17 |
Subject | CRYSTALLOGRAPHIC CHARACTERIZATION AND CHEMISTRY OF ARCHAEOLOGICAL MATERIALS | Code | 12785203 | |||||
Study programme |
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Cycle | 2nd | |||||
Descriptors | Credits | Type | Year | Period | ||||
5 | Optional | AN |
Competences | Learning aims | Contents |
Planning | Methodologies | Personalized attention |
Assessment | Sources of information | Recommendations |
Topic | Sub-topic |
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 |