Nano and Mega Light from the Past

The study of cultural heritage materials (human remains) and artefacts provides valuable information for a better understating of past, the technological level of ancient societies and their everyday life and practices. In many cases fascinating secrets have been uncovered and hidden technologies have been revealed, which are of great industrial and economic interest nowadays, thus forming part of the so-called cultural industry and sustainable development. The presentation will focus on the study of ancient glasses (manufacturing technologies), the analyses of remaining substances and also on the application of absolute dating technologies for measuring the age of significant monuments and highlighted ancient materials.

Participants:
Professor Nikos Zacharias: University of the Peloponnese, Laboratory of Archaeometry, Director, Chair, Department of History, Archaeology and Cultural Resources Management

Nikos Zacharias is Professor in the University of the Peloponnese and currently the Chair of the Department of History, Archaeology and Cultural Resources Management (2015-present), Director of the MSc program Cultural Heritage Materials and Technologies CultTech (10/2015-present) and Director of the Laboratory of Archaeometry (2010-present). Form 2002 – 2009 he worked at the Laboratory of Archaeometry, N.C.S.R. Demokritos, Greece and from 2000-2002 at Bonn University (ISKP). He studied Chemical Engineering at the National Technical University of Athens (N.T.U.A.), completed a Postgraduate Program at NCSR Demokritos and nominated his doctorate from NTUA in 2000. He is specialized in the analyses of archaeological and geoarchaeological inorganic materials, luminescence dating (TL/OSL) and environmental reconstruction. He has published 145 papers, books and book chapters, with a total of 535 citations and h index= 13.