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Archaeological Wood

Rowell and Barbour; Archaeological Wood Advances in Chemistry; American Chemical Society: Washington, DC, 1989.



ADVANCES IN CHEMISTRY SERIES 225

Archaeological Wood


Properties, Chemistry, and Preservation Roger M. Rowell, EDITOR U.S. Department of Agriculture

R. James Barbour, EDITOR Forintek Canada Corporation

Developed from a symposium sponsored by the Cellulose, Paper, and Textile Division at the 196th National Meeting of the American Chemical Society, Los Angeles, California, September 25-September 30, 1988

American Chemical Society, Washington, DC 1990


Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Archaeological wood: properties, chemistry, and preservation Roger M. Rowell, editor, R. James Barbour, editor. p. cm.—(Advances in chemistry series, ISSN 0065-2393; 225) "Developed from a symposium sponsored by the Cellulose, Paper, and Textile Division at the 196th National Meeting of the American Chemical Society, Los Angeles, California, September 25-September 30, 1988."


Includes bibliographical references. ISBN 0-8412-1623-1 1. Wood—Chemistry. 2. Wood—Preservation. 3. Archaeological chemistry. 4. Antiquities—Collection and preservation. I. Rowell, Roger M. II. Barbour, R. James. III. American Chemical Society. Cellulose, Paper, and Textile Division. IV. American Chemical Society. Meeting. (196th: 1988: Los Angeles, Calif.) V. Series. QD1.A355 no. 225 [CC137.W6] 540 s—dc20 [930.1'028]

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ABOUT T H E EDITORS


R O G E R M. ROWELL is a carbohydrate chemist

at the Forest Products Laboratory, U . S . D e partment of Agriculture, Forest Service, in Madison, Wisconsin. His research involves the enhancement of wood properties through the chemical modification of wood cell walls. He currently serves as team leader for an International Team on Property Enhancement of Wood Composites Through Chemical M o d ification, as a team leader at F P L on Property Enhancement of Wood Composites, as professor in the Forestry Department at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and as research professor, Department of Technical Chemistry, Chalmers University of Technology, Goteborg, Sweden. His research has included cooperative studies in the Unites States, Brazil, Denmark, New Zealand, France, Germany, Poland, Switzerland, Japan, China, Malaysia, Great Britain, Finland, and Sweden. In 1967 he was an honorary research fellow i n the Chemistry Department at Birmingham University, Birmingham, England. For part of 1985 he was a guest professor, Forest Chemistry Department, Beijing Forestry University, Beijing, China, and for part of 1985 and 1986 he was a National Science Foundation exchange professor at the Wood Research Institute, Kyoto University, Uji, Japan. For part of 1986 he was a guest professor, Department of Wood Science, University College of North Wales, Bangor, United Kingdom. For part of 1988 he was a guest research fellow at the Forest Research Institute, Rotorua, New Zealand. In addition to authoring more than 90 publications and receiving five patents, Rowell has presented numerous papers at national and international scientific meetings, organized national and international symposia, and has been active in consulting and technology transfer of his research worldwide. Rowell is a fellow i n the International Academy of Wood Science, a member of the Sigma X i Honorary Research Society and the American Chemical Society, where he served as chairman of the Cellulose, Paper, and Textile Division in 1980. Rowell received his B.S. degree i n math and chemistry in 1961 from Southwestern College i n Kansas. H e received his M . S . and P h . D . in biochemistry from Purdue University in 1963 and 1965, respectively.



R . JAMES 0amie) BARBOUR is a wood scientist with Forintek Canada Corporation's eastern laboratory in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. His research involves the evaluation of wood quality problems encountered by the Canadian wood products industry in the processing of the existing resource, as well as those expected in the utilization of the managed resource that is currently being grown. H e became involved in the conservation of archaeological wood as an undergraduate botany student at Washington State University. He began by making species identifications of wood recovered from the Hoko River Site, which is located on the Olympic Peninsula in Washington. H e soon realized that there was a need for further research into the properties of archaeological wood and how these properties influence the outcome of various conservation treatments. This was the topic of his master's thesis, which was written at the University of Washington in Seattle, Washington.

Barbour's research in the area of the conservation of archaeological wood has included work on the microstructural properties of waterlogged wood, the shrinkage and collapse of waterlogged and damp wood during drying, various aspects of the polyethylene glycol (PEG) and sugar treatments to improve dimensional stability, in situ polymerization of water-soluble monomers, and freeze-drying of waterlogged wood. Although his current research is in the area of the industrial utilization of wood, he maintains a healthy interest in the conservation of archaeological wood and hopes to continue to make meaningful contributions to this field.


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