X-Radiography and Material Analysis

LÓPEZ, MARIEL A.

The Encyclopedia of Archaeological Sciences

John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

Lugar: New York; Año: 2018; p. 1 - 3

X-rays for the analysis of archaeological objects constructed with different materials have begun more than a century ago. Nevertheless, it was only during the last half of the 20th century that this technique began to be more systematically used, especially with human and animal bone remains, as well as with ceramic and metallic objects. Considered as one of the non-invasive and destructive techniques, radiography has been preferably used as a diagnostic tool to detect constructive techniques not visible to the naked eye, as well as defects and other morphological, structural and metrical characteristics of the materials constituting the archaeological objects.