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Overlapping disciplines of chemistry, archaeology, and history.
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The increasing frequency of multidisciplinary research in science has largely resulted from an effort to address increasingly complex problems, particularly in the realms of medicine, the environment, and materials science. While the focus of multidisciplinary research has been on the sciences, there is a growing call to apply multidisciplinary app...
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... the more traditional, humanities-based multidisciplinary methods discussed above, new approaches have found growing applications specifically within the history of the chemical arts. Perhaps not surprisingly, these have generally involved a greater application of the chemical sciences to the study of this history, with the older of these combining chemical analysis with archaeology to give the new multi-disciplinary field of archaeological chemistry (Figure 1) (31-34). The application of chemical analysis to archaeology dates as far back as early studies by Martin Klaproth and Humphry Davy (1778-1829), but its significant development is typically traced to the 1920s and 30s with the introduction of instrumental measurement techniques (35). ...
