Description: (Formerly numbered Conservation of Archaeological and Ethnographic Materials 265.) Lecture, one hour; laboratory, one hour. General introduction to plant-based organic materials used to produce ethnographic and archaeological cultural heritage: wood, bark, paper, bast fibers, grasses. Relationship between materials, processing, and properties of natural materials using basic concepts from biology and chemistry. Structural stability and deterioration phenomena of these materials as found in cultural collections. Letter grading.

Units: 2.0