Conservation: Concept and Reality

Caple, C.

Conservation: Concept and Reality

Caple, C.

Authors

C. Caple

Contributors

E. Williams
Editor

C. Peachey
Editor

Abstract

Before any individual, organisation or discipline contemplates its future, it is prudent to know where it currently stands, where it has come from and what the world around it is like. Thus to start a conference on ‘Current Trends and Future Directions in Archaeological Conservation’, it is surely prudent to consider, if briefly, what we understand conservation to be i.e. the concept of conservation, and something of the history of conservation to show how we got here. We also need to understand the reality of the world in which conservation exists, what others expect from conservation and conservators.

Citation

Caple, C. (2010). Conservation: Concept and Reality. In E. Williams, & C. Peachey (Eds.), The conservation of archaeological materials: current trends and future directions (1-10)

Conference Name	Recent Development in Archaeological Conservation
Conference Location	Williamsburg, Virginia, USA
Publication Date	Jan 1, 2010
Deposit Date	Dec 9, 2011
Publicly Available Date	Jan 12, 2016
Publisher	Archaeopress
Pages	1-10
Series Title	BAR International Series
Series Number	2116
Book Title	The conservation of archaeological materials: current trends and future directions.
Public URL	https://durham-repository.worktribe.com/output/1157354
Publisher URL	http://www.oxbowbooks.com/oxbow/the-conservation-of-archaeological-materials.html