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This book provides a lucid introduction to the basics of gemmology. It familiarizes archaeologists, art historians and conservators with the science of gemstones and allows them to understand the basic concepts of their provenance, typology and treatments.

Which are the main types of gems? What treatments can be applied? How does one analyse gems? How can gems contribute to archaeometrical research?This volume is written by four experts in the fields of gemmology and archaeometry and addresses both students who need an introduction to this field and professionals who want to refresh their knowledge of the topic. This work is part of a series of introductory texts that deal with a broad range of materials-related topics in archaeometry.

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Short Introductions to Cultural Heritage Science
Series Editor
Peter Vandenabeele
Department of Archaeology, Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium

This book series addresses people in humanities (mainly archaeologists, art-historians, conservation scientists, anthropologists, historians, etc.) who are interested in the technical aspects of materials and/or objects.

As this series aims to fill the gap in knowledge on technical aspects of different materials, readers should have a better understanding after studying the introductions included in the series, which will refer to more advanced texts on the topic at hand.

The series is didactic and provides sufficient background information to understand the different aspects of the materials studied. This gives readers the opportunity to reach a level that allows them to interact with specialists or to understand scientific papers in the specific research domain.

More information about this series at http://www.springer.com/series/15439

Stefanos Karampelas , Lore Kiefert , Danilo Bersani and Peter Vandenabeele
Gems and Gemmology
An Introduction for Archaeologists, Art-Historians and Conservators
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Stefanos Karampelas
Laboratoire Franais de Gemmologie (LFG), Paris, France
Lore Kiefert
Gubelin Gem Lab, Lucerne, Switzerland
Danilo Bersani
Department of Mathematical, Physical and Computer Sciences, University of Parma, Parma, Italy
Peter Vandenabeele
Department of Archaeology, Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium
Short Introductions to Cultural Heritage Science
ISBN 978-3-030-35448-0 e-ISBN 978-3-030-35449-7
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-35449-7
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The original version of this book was revised: The biography of Stefanos Karampelas has been updated, as well as his affiliation. Further, the Acknowledgements section now includes the names of those who took the photos for the replacement figures. The correction to this book is available at

Acknowledgments

The authors wish to thank the Swiss National Museum and specifically Dr. Tiziana Lombardo and Fabian Muller (Affoltern am Albis and Zurich, Switzerland), Markus Bamert (Einsiedeln Abbey, Einsiedeln, Switzerland), Dr. Hugo Miguel Crespo (University of Lisbon, Portugal), Dr. Rui Galopim de Carvalho (Portugal Gemas Academy, Lisbon, Portugal), Enzo Liverino (Torre del Greco, Italy), and the Historical Museum Basel (Switzerland) for providing the images of some items. SK would like to thank his co-workers for the photos they took at LFG, as well as Pr. Emmanuel Fritsch (IMN-CNRS, Nantes, France), Pr. Benjamin Rondeau (University of Nantes, France), and Dr. Jaroslav Hyrsl (Prague, Czech Republic) for providing useful and difficult to find references. LK would like to thank her co-workers for the photos they took at Gbelin Gem Lab.

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Stefanos Karampelas

is Chief Gemmologist at the Laboratoire Franais de Gemmologie (LFG), Paris, and he is also lecturing for the Advanced Gemmology Diploma at the University of Nantes, France. He started studying Geology and Mineralogy at Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (Greece), he has MSc in Geosciences and Advanced Gemmology Diploma, both from the University of Nantes (France), and he completed his PhD in Materials Physics at the University of Nantes (France) and Mineralogy at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (Greece) on the non-destructive study of the origin of pearls color. He worked as a Research Scientist for about 7 years at Gubelin Gem Lab and a further year at GemResearch Swisslab, both in Switzerland, as well as for about 3 years as Research Director for the Bahrain Institute for Pearls and Gemstones (DANAT). His research interests include advanced non-destructive techniques applied to all kind of gem materials. He has published numerous peer-reviewed articles in scientific journals, contributed to books, and visited several gem mines as well as natural and cultured pearl producing areas around the globe. He is also frequently delivering lectures to international scientific conferences and gemmological meetings. He is a Member of the Commission of Gem Materials of International Mineralogical Association and of the Editorial Board of Gems & Gemology, Delegate for the International Gemmological Conference, and Associate Editor of The Journal of Gemmology.

Lore Kiefert

is Chief Gemmologist at Gbelin Gem Lab, where she is, among other tasks, responsible for the training of gemmologists. She started studying mineralogy in Heidelberg, Germany, in 1981 and completed her masters thesis on the origin of sapphires in 1987. She then moved to Australia to study the mineralogical and chemical composition of desert dust, which earned her a PhD in 1996. Leaving Australia for Switzerland in 1994, she joined the SSEF Swiss Gemmological Institute as Deputy Director and went on to become its Director of the Coloured Stones Department as well. During her time at the SSEF, she completed her FGA Diploma in 1998. In 2005, she moved to New York to head the AGTA Gemmological Testing Center as Laboratory Director until she decided to return to Europe to join the Gubelin Gem Lab as Chief Gemmologist in October 2009.

She has authored and coauthored over 100 publications in gemmological and scientific journals, as well as chapters in textbooks such as the Handbook of Raman Spectroscopy. She regularly delivers gemmological lectures at conferences worldwide and has co-organised two gemmological conferences in Switzerland and the USA. She is also on the editorial review board of Gems & Gemology and

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