Browsing Cranfield Defence and Security by Author "van Ham-Meert, Alicia"

Browsing Cranfield Defence and Security by Author "van Ham-Meert, Alicia"

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  • Antimony as a raw material in ancient metal and glass making: provenancing Georgian LBA metallic Sb by isotope analysis 
    Dillis, Sarah; van Ham-Meert, Alicia; Leeming, Peter; Shortland, Andrew J.; Gobejishvili, Gela; Abramishvili, Mikheil; Degryse, Patrick (Taylor & Francis, 2019-11-13)
    Sb was frequently used as a raw material, both in ancient glass-making (as an opacifier and decolouriser) and metallurgy (either as an alloying element or as a pure metal). Despite this ubiquity, antimony production has ...
  • Isotopic evidence for the use of Caucasian antimony in Late Bronze Age glass making 
    Degryse, Patrick; Shortland, Andrew J.; Dillis, Sarah; van Ham-Meert, Alicia; Vanhaecke, Frank; Leeming, Peter (Elsevier, 2020-06-29)
    Antimony (Sb) is considered a rare material in the archaeological record, found only in unusual circumstances. Nevertheless, antimony minerals were an important resource for several millennia, used in metallurgy and to ...
  • Testing various pre-treatments on artificially waterlogged and pitch-contaminated wood for strontium isotope analyses 
    Snoeck, Christophe; Schulting, Rick J.; Brock, Fiona; Rodler, Alexandra S.; van Ham-Meert, Alicia; Mattielli, Nadine; Ostapkowicz, Joanna (Frontiers, 2021-01-12)
    Strontium isotope ratios (87Sr/86Sr) are commonly used in archeological and forensic studies to assess if humans and fauna are local to the place they were found or not. This approach is largely unexplored for wooden ...
  • A unique recipe for glass beads at Iron Age Sardis 
    van Ham-Meert, Alicia; Dillis, Sarah; Blomme, Annelore; Cahill, Nicholas; Claeys, Philippe; Elsen, Jan; Eremin, Katherine; Gerdes, Axel; Steuwe, Christian; Roeffaers, Maarten; Shortland, Andrew J.; Degryse, Patrick (Elsevier, 2019-06-28)
    In large parts of the Mediterranean recipes for the earliest man-made glass changed from melting mixtures of crushed quartz pebbles and halophytic plant ashes in the Late Bronze Age to the use of quartz sands and mineral ...

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