Flax fibres have been used by humans for approximately 10,000 years. With time, the
geographic area of production and cultivation has changed, as have the applications of flax …

Mismanaged plastic waste poses a complex threat to the environments that it contaminates,
generating considerable concern from academia, industry, politicians, and the general …

Scientific techniques developed in materials science offer invaluable information to
archaeology, art history, and conservation. A rapidly growing number of innovative methods …

Identifying and distinguishing between natural textile fibres is an important task in both
archaeology and criminology. Wool, silk and cotton fibres can readily be distinguished from …

Textile research has become an important field of archaeology. Although the established
analytical methods are often viewed as specialized, their integration with other …

The use of synchrotron radiation techniques to study cultural heritage and archaeological
materials has undergone a steep increase over the past 10–15 years. The range of …

Surface‐enhanced Raman spectroscopy (SERS) was used for the identification of natural
organic dyes belonging to indigoid and anthraquinone classes in archeological samples …

The unambiguous identification of bast fibers represents one of the main challenges for
archaeologists and conservators dealing with archaeological textiles, motivated by the …

Correct identification of textile fibres is an important issue in archaeology because the use of
different materials can yield crucial information about the society that produced the textiles …

The effectiveness of surface‐enhanced Raman spectroscopy (SERS) spectrocsopy on Ag
colloids has been successfully demonstrated for the identification of a yellow dye in two …