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This event will be taking place on Tuesday 09 November - Wednesday 10 November 2021.
Tuesday 9 November
13:05 – 13:35
Invited: Archaeological science and globalisation: scientific explorations of metallurgical crucibles from southern Africa
Session One
13:35 – 13:50
Submitted: Better Together: Microanalysis of Archaeological Indigenous Ceramics using Petrography and Micro Computed Tomography
Session One
13:50 – 14:05
Submitted: Polychromatic polarization: new spectacles for the good old petrographic microscope
Session One
14:05 – 14:10
Techno Bite: Cultural Heritage Under the Microscope: getting to the fine detail with advance elemental analysis (Bruker)
Session One
14:10 – 14:25
Submitted: Macroscopic and microscopic analysis of cut marks and trampling on human remains from the Covesea Caves, Scotland, dating to the Late Bronze Age and Roman Iron Age
Session One
14:25 – 14:28
Flash Talk: Intraplate Volcanism in Our Solar System; Using Scanning Electron Microscopy to Search for Terrestrial Analogues for Mars
Session One
14:28 – 14:31
Flash Talk: Beyond macroscopy: correlative tomography to investigate dental health in an Inca population from Farfán, Peru
Session One
14:31 – 14:34
Flash Talk: Microanalytical methodological approach to archaeological human bones: Between conservation and the understanding of the past
Session One
14:50 – 15:20
Invited: Chemical Analysis of Low Energy x-rays in Geological Materials using EPMA
Session Two
15:20 – 15:35
Submitted: Meteorite Northwest Africa 5315: Determining the History of a Recrystallised HED Breccia through Scanning Electron Microscopy
Session Two
15:35 – 15:50
Submitted: Correlative cathodoluminescence and EDS imaging of the benthic agglutinated foraminifer Liebusella goesi
Session Two
15:50 – 15:55
Techno Bite: From Ancient Relics to Life on Mars: Enhancing your materials characterisation with temperature controlled microscopy (Linkam Scientific Instruments)
Session Two
15:55 – 16:10
Submitted: Quantifying platinum group elements (PGEs): A novel scanning electron microscope and energy dispersive spectrometry (SEM/EDS) approach to analysing terrestrial and extra-terrestrial samples
Session Two
16:10 – 16:13
Flash Talk: Comparative Examination of Scanning Electron Microscopy and Microanalysis results from the Early Bronze Age pottery from Helike (Greece) and experimental briquettes
Session Two
16:13 – 16:16
Flash Talk: Requirements for accurate and precise SEM/EDS quantification
Session Two
Wednesday 10 November
13:35 – 13:50
Submitted: Can we distinguish between ancient black glazed pottery and its contemporary replica? TEM Phase Mapping Microscopy studies towards authentication
Session Three
13:50 – 14:05
Submitted Talk: When is a biomineral not a biomineral? Multi-scale complexity of iron oxide crystallisation in the Gunflint Chert
Session Three
14:10 – 14:25
Submitted: Nanometre functional chemistry of organic meteorites using STEM-EELS
Session Three
14:25 – 14:28
Flash Talk: Geologist v Machine: Why a geologist is still important, even in ‘automated’ data collection
Session Three
14:28 – 14:31
Flash Talk: High Spatial Resolution Mineralogical Quantification by Unsupervised Machine Learning of Energy Dispersive X-ray Spectrometry (EDS)
Session Three
14:50 – 15:20
Invited: Maximizing data extraction from large are EBSD maps of geological thin sections: recent examples using mantle xenoliths
Session Four
15:20 – 15:35
Submitted: 3D non-destructive Crystallographic Imaging of Peridotite with Lab-based X-ray Diffraction Contrast Tomography
Session Four
15:35 – 15:50
Submitted: Determining the P-T history of metamorphic rocks using combined EBSD and EDS
Session Four
15:50 – 15:55
Techno Bite: Enhanced understanding of geological and archaeological materials using combined x-ray and optical spectroscopies (Gatan EDAX)
Session Four
15:55 – 16:10
Submitted: Automated identification and evaluation of minerals by SEM-EDS: maps mineralogy – the simple tool for complex rocks
Session Four
16:10 – 16:13
Flash Talk: Magnetic recording of Earth’s history: A 3D nanoscale characterisation of Glen Mountain GC4-3-13
Session Four
16:13 – 16:16
Flash Talk: Geochemical composition of archaeological soils as an environmental archive of changes between Celtic and medieval occupation; case study from hillfort Chotěbuz
Session Four