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Wood Preservation

The discovery and preservation of artifacts creates a unique opportunity to gain insight about the past. This is true in terms of history, culture, craftsmanship, and a variety of other aspects of existence. For example, the discovery of King Tut’s tomb revealed an enormous amount of information about Ancient Egyptian Society. Likewise, the discovery of sunken ships centuries old enables a better glimpse into the past than possible from history books. One of the most important factors in using such discoveries and artifacts to illustrate the past is preservation. Preservation of artifacts often restores damage from the elements or age. It also preserves valuable artifacts in a manner that keeps them in good condition for future generations to explore.

Even though history books and primary documents often shed great light on previous cultures and eras, the discovery of artifacts often helps expand such knowledge or can even help fill in missing pieces of that knowledge. For example, in 2000, rainfall deficits in Florida at Newnans Lake revealed canoes in lakes, rivers, and peat bogs (Wheeler et al. 2003). The decayed remnants of over 100 log boats were of precontact Native American design, revealing much about log boat construction and design before European and American contact. In 1628, the Vasa, the pride of the Swedish fleet, sank on its maiden voyage (Hamer 2002). Its recent discovery not only taught much about the era and its people but it helped spark research into new methods of conserving waterlogged wood. Excessive acid buildup threatened the wooden remains of the ship. This is similar with many discoveries under the sea. Their value cannot be underestimated and all are threatened as they lay rotting from acid attack. As Hamer (2002) maintains, “Most of them are wooden ships and all of them contain valuable wooden artifacts. This is an enormous slice of human history, rotting remains of thousands of swa...

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