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Record Nr.

UNINA9910778043603321

Titolo

Crossing the borders [[electronic resource] ] : new methods and techniques in the study of archaeological materials from the Caribbean / / edited by Corinne L. Hofman, Menno L.P. Hoogland, and Annelou L. van Gijn

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Tuscaloosa, : University of Alabama Press, c2008

ISBN

0-8173-8196-1

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (308 p.)

Collana

Caribbean archaeology and ethnohistory

Altri autori (Persone)

HofmanCorinne Lisette <1959->

HooglandMenno Lambertus Pieter <1954->

GijnAnnelou L. van <1954->

Disciplina

972.9/01072

Soggetti

Indians of the West Indies - Antiquities

Excavations (Archaeology) - West Indies

Archaeology - West Indies - Methodology

West Indies Antiquities Congresses

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Outcome of a symposium held at the 71st Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology in Puerto Rico in April 2006.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [233]-284) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Crossing disciplinary boundaries and national borders : new methods and techniques in the study of archaeological materials from the Caribbean / Corinne L. Hofman, Menno L.P. Hoogland, and Annelou L. van Gijn -- In tuneful threefold : combining conventional archaeological methods, archaeometric techniques, and ethnoarchaeological research in the study of precolonial pottery of the Caribbean / Corinne L. Hofman ... [et al.] -- American gold and European brass : metal objects and indigenous values in the cemetery of El Chorro de Maíta, Cuba / Jago Cooper, Marcos Martinón-Torres, and Roberto Valcárcel Rojas -- Chert sourcing in the northern Lesser Antilles : the use of geochemical techniques in discriminating chert materials / Sebastiaan Knippenberg and Johannes J.P. Zijlstra -- A new material to view the past : dental alginate molds of friable artifacts / Charlene Dixon Hutcheson -- Saladoid lapidary technology : new methods for investigating stone bead drilling techniques / Christy de



Mille, Tamara Varney, and Michael Turney -- Lithic technology : a way to more complex diversity in Caribbean archaeology / Benoît Bérard -- Tool use and technological choices : an integral approach toward functional analysis of Caribbean tool assemblages / Annelou L. van Gijn, Yvonne Lammers-Keijsers, and Iris Briels -- Understanding the function of coral tools from Anse à la Gourde : an experimental approach / Harold J. Kelly and Annelou L. van Gijn -- The significance of wear and residue studies : an example from Plum Piece, Saba / Channah J. Nieuwenhuis -- Starch residues on lithic artifacts from two contrasting contexts in northwestern Puerto Rico : Los Muertos Cave and Vega de Nelo Vargas farmstead / Jaime R. Pagán Jiménez and José R. Oliver -- The burén in precolonial Cuban archaeology : new information regarding the use of plants and ceramic griddles during the late Ceramic Age of eastern Cuba gathered through starch analysis / Roberto Rodríguez Suárez and Jaime R. Pagán Jiménez -- Caribbean paleoethnobotany : present status and new horizons (understanding the evolution of an indigenous ethnobotany) / Lee A. Newsom -- New evidence of two different migratory waves in the circum-Caribbean area during the pre-Columbian period from the analysis of dental morphological traits / Alfredo Coppa ... [et al.] -- Tracing human mobility with 87Sr/86Sr at Anse à la Gourde, Guadeloupe / Mathijs A. Booden ... [et al.] -- Epilogue: The correct answer requires the right question (and the technology to back it up) / William F. Keegan.

Sommario/riassunto

Explores the application of a selected   number of newly emerging methods and techniques.   During the past few decades, Caribbean scholars on both sides of the Atlantic have increasingly developed and employed new methods and techniques for the study of archaeological materials. The aim of earlier research in the Caribbean was mainly to define typologies on the basis of pottery and lithic assemblages leading to the establishment of chronological charts for the region, and it was not until the 1980's that the use of technological and functional analyses of



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Record Nr.

UNINA9910588600103321

Titolo

Biomass Utilization: Conversion Strategies / / edited by Nhuan Phu Nghiem, Tae Hyun Kim, Chang Geun Yoo

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Springer, , 2022

ISBN

3-031-05835-6

Edizione

[1st ed. 2022.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (248 pages)

Collana

Biomedical and Life Sciences Series

Disciplina

662.88

Soggetti

Biochemistry

Renewable energy sources

Environmental engineering

Biotechnology

Bioremediation

Sustainability

Renewable Energy

Environmental Engineering/Biotechnology

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.

Nota di contenuto

Chapter 1. Introduction -- Chapter 2. Fractionation strategies -- Chapter 3. Biochemical conversion of cellulose -- Chapter 4. Biochemical conversion of hemicellulose -- Chapter 5. Biochemical conversion of lignin -- Chapter 6. Thermochemical conversion of cellulose and hemicellulose -- Chapter 7. Thermochemical conversion of lignin -- Chapter 8. Material application of lignin -- Chapter 9. TEA for evaluating biorefinery strategies.

Sommario/riassunto

This book focuses on the technologies developed for the conversion of all three biomass components, i.e. cellulose, hemicellulose and lignin, and their constituents, to fuels and high-value products. Both biochemical and thermochemical approaches are reviewed. Additionally, the developed technologies are described in detail and their potential applications as well as their commercial status are discussed. The early attempts to produce fuel ethanol from lignocellulosic biomass feedstock focused solely on the biological



conversion of cellulose because the only organism that had been used successfully for commercial production of ethanol, i.e. Saccharomyces cerevisiae, could only ferment glucose, which was obtained from the hydrolysis of cellulose. Hemicellulose and lignin were considered as wastes in these processes and were normally removed in pretreatment processes to enhance enzymatic hydrolysis of the remaining cellulose. However, this approach was not economically feasible and as a result, the biorefinery concept was developed. In a biorefinery, in addition to ethanol, various higher-value products are produced from hemicellulose and lignin, which were previously not considered. Consequently, technologies were developed for the fractionation of biomass and conversion of hemicellulose and lignin to fuels and high-value products to improve the economic feasibility. Written and edited by a team of investigators with many years of experience in biomass processing research and development, this book is an informative resource for postgraduate students and researchers interested in biorefinery and biofuel technologies both in academia- and commercial laboratories.