TY - CHAP
T1 - Cultural Heritage Project at Australian Nuclear Science and Technology Organisation (ANSTO)
AU - Salvemini, Filomena
AU - White, Rachel
AU - Levchenko, Vladimir A.
AU - Smith, Andrew M.
AU - Pastuovic, Zeljko
AU - Stopic, Attila
AU - Luzin, Vladimir
AU - Tobin, Mark J.
AU - Puskar, Ljiljana
AU - Howard, Daryl
AU - Davis, Joel
AU - Avdeev, Maxim
AU - Gatenby, Sue
AU - Kim, Min Jung
AU - Grazzi, Francesco
AU - Sheedy, Kenneth
AU - Olsen, Scott R.
AU - Raymond, Carla A.
AU - Lord, Constance
AU - Richards, Candace
AU - Bevitt, Joseph
AU - Popelka-Filcoff, Rachel S.
AU - Lenehan, Claire E.
AU - Ives, Simon
AU - Dredge, Paula
AU - Yip, Andrew
AU - Brookhouse, Matthew Theodore
AU - Austin, Anne Gerard
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2022.
PY - 2022/1
Y1 - 2022/1
N2 - The Australian Nuclear Science and Technology Organization (ANSTO) is the home of Australia’s most significant landmark and national infrastructure for research. ANSTO operates one of the world’s most modern nuclear research reactors, OPAL; a comprehensive suite of neutron beam instruments; the Australian Synchrotron; the Electron Microscope Facility; and the Center for Accelerator Science. Over the years, the suite of nuclear methods available across ANSTO’s campuses has been increasingly applied to study a wide range of heritage materials. Since 2015 the strategic reseach project on cultural heritage was initiated in order to promote access to ANSTO’s capabilities and experties, unique in the region, by cultural institution and researchers. This chapter offers a compendium of ANSTO nuclear capabilities most frequently applied to cultural heritage research. A series of innovative, interdisciplinary, and multi-technique studies conducted in close collaboration with Australian museums, institutions, and universities is also showcased. It includes research on dating Aboriginal Australian rock art and fingerprinting the sources of ochre pigments; rediscovering the technological knowledge in the making of early coinage and ancient weapons; virtually unwrapping the content of votive mummies from ancient Egypt; and investigating and restoring the original layer of a painting that can be explored by the museum audience in a novel type of exhibition based on an immersive, interactive, and virtual environment.
AB - The Australian Nuclear Science and Technology Organization (ANSTO) is the home of Australia’s most significant landmark and national infrastructure for research. ANSTO operates one of the world’s most modern nuclear research reactors, OPAL; a comprehensive suite of neutron beam instruments; the Australian Synchrotron; the Electron Microscope Facility; and the Center for Accelerator Science. Over the years, the suite of nuclear methods available across ANSTO’s campuses has been increasingly applied to study a wide range of heritage materials. Since 2015 the strategic reseach project on cultural heritage was initiated in order to promote access to ANSTO’s capabilities and experties, unique in the region, by cultural institution and researchers. This chapter offers a compendium of ANSTO nuclear capabilities most frequently applied to cultural heritage research. A series of innovative, interdisciplinary, and multi-technique studies conducted in close collaboration with Australian museums, institutions, and universities is also showcased. It includes research on dating Aboriginal Australian rock art and fingerprinting the sources of ochre pigments; rediscovering the technological knowledge in the making of early coinage and ancient weapons; virtually unwrapping the content of votive mummies from ancient Egypt; and investigating and restoring the original layer of a painting that can be explored by the museum audience in a novel type of exhibition based on an immersive, interactive, and virtual environment.
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U2 - 10.1007/978-3-030-60016-7_15
DO - 10.1007/978-3-030-60016-7_15
M3 - Chapter
AN - SCOPUS:85148027197
SN - 9783030600150
SP - 375
EP - 441
BT - Handbook of Cultural Heritage Analysis
PB - Springer International Publishing
ER -