ArqueoLine s.l.C/ Magnòlies, 29, 1r, CP: 43700, El Vendrell (Tarragona) SPAIN
CIF: B43564541
Tlfs: (+34) 699855077 (+34) 687437997
Fax: (+34) 977662496 Correu-e: info@arqueoline.com
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FAQ (PREGUNTES MÉS FREQÜENTS)
Q: How does ArqueoLine s.l. service works?
This serial questions and answers try to answer the main doubts that are considered at the Analysis Service of ArqueoLine s.l..
IMPORTANT: Do not send samples to ArqueoLine s.l. without contact us before. We need to know your projects objectives, as the quantity and the type of samples that you dispose. It is important that we can value the different analysis options and samples will be the correct ones for each procedure. We also have to accord the handing period, the service cost and way of analysis payment.
Q: What does Analysis Service of ArqueoLine s.l. offers?
We offer services of archaeometry; this is of instrumental analysis, which requires of scientific-technically instrumentation and others services that can require it only as complementary backup.
Thus, for example, a zooarchaeological analysis can be carried without instrumental backup to provide the basic zooarchaeological indicators of a faunal assembly (Species Identification, Minimal Number of Individuals and Skeletal Representation). If besides they are required to know other aspects as cut marks or postdepositional alterations will be required the utilization of instrumental support, as the binocular lens or Scanning Electron Microscope and digital photography.
Q: How is it the basic procedure of ours Analysis Services?
- Initial advice
- Contact with a laboratory technician.
- Group value of the petition.
- Budget elaboration, with compromise of handing periods.
- Send client confirmation through the order compromise
and the sign budget. - Send of the analysis materials by ArqueoLine s.l..
- Service provision according to terms and contract periods.
- Results sending in paper and digital medium.
- Service payment.
- Materials devolution if we do not had used destruction techniques.
Q: Some previous basic questions
The relation of ArqueoLine s.l. with the client is carried out through a Link Technician that will be its speaker for the consultations and execution and monitoring of the analytic works, with the maxim privacy and confidentiality.
The client should agree with the analyses Link Technician to carry out a correlative numbering system of the samples, according to indications of analysis assignment form.
The scientific instrumentation and the Technician of instrumentation utilized by ArqueoLine s.l. form splits of the Scientific Services Resources of the University Rovira i Virgili(Tarragona, Spain).
The publication rights and public exhibition of the analysis results belong to the client always that specifies the Analysis Service of ArqueoLine s.l. origins or the link technician sign the publication.
The client will assume the samples transport costs.
The samples that will require a destructive treatment for their instrumental analysis only will be returned in results way with an explicative report. We recommended limit to the quantity of samples for every recommended destructive analysis, because ArqueoLine s.l. will not keep remaining quantities for possible futures analyses.
The possible reclamations of the contractor part to the contracted part will have to be effectuated in a period of 90 natural days from the date of the agreement document of delivery results from the contractor part, without his sign we will not delivered the results of the contract service (delivery compromise).
Q: Some of my samples are very small. Which it is the minimum required of archaeological sample for an analysis? Which it is the quantity of sample recommended?
The instrumental techniques have a great resolution and allow the analysis of small samples. For specific instrumental analysis are required at less two samples, the archaeological one and another of control of the material in contact with the substance or object to analyze.
This sample called blind, white or simply “white” is a negative control that allows to compare the archaeological results and not to confuse a composed natural one as cultural. The rates of the analyses that require samples of control agree in a joint package.
In spite of the heterogeneity of the types of analysis samples and of the techniques to apply, we include a general guide of types of samples and of the minimum quantities recommended for the satisfactory obtaining of results of archaeometry analysis.
| Sample type | Recommended quantity |
|---|---|
| Bones and teeth | For bones is recommended a 5gr fragment. The acceptable minimum size is on the order of 4cm². For teeth is recommended minimum a whole tooth. |
| Wood | It is recommended a 5gr fragment. The acceptable minimum size is on the order of 4cm². |
| Stone | It is recommended a 5gr fragment. The acceptable minimum size is on the order of 4cm². |
| Pottery | 2gr with a 3-4cm² of sample area. A pottery fragment with 4cm² of sample area is the acceptable minimum size. For proteins analysis is required 1gr of pottery. For complementary lipids analyses is required almost one additional gram. |
| Metals | It is recommended a 5gr fragment. The acceptable minimum size is on the order of 4cm². |
| Glasses | It is recommended a 5gr fragment. The acceptable minimum size is on the order of 4cm². |
| Resins and related vegetables extracts | For detection over objects is recommended the object or the fragment object. For detection over sediments is required 50gr of the analysis material and 50gr of control sample. |
| Paint pigments | To accord sampling protocol or sending available samples with link technician. The minimum quantity is 20gr with a 2mm² of sample area. |
| Textile products | It is recommended a 5gr fragment. The acceptable minimum quantity is on the order of 4cm². |
| Living floors | To accord sampling protocol or sending available samples with link technician. 50gr of analyze material and 50gr of control sample. |
| Building materials | To accord sampling protocol or sending available samples with link technician. 50gr of analyze material and 50gr of control sample. |
Q:How the quantities of sample should be quantified? how should they must be weigh?
The requests of weight are indicatives. Frequently in the archaeological sites there are not the ideal conditions for weighing samples, but there are two basic rules: that the samples should be dry and that is preferably to collect more quantity than less.
Q: How should be collected, to pack and to identify the samples before sending them to ArqueoLine s.l. ? It is required of some other complementary information to include with the samples?
The protocols of sampling depend of the archaeological material that we treat, the instrumental techniques to apply and the archaeological sites conditions. It is recommended to agree with the link technician assigned by ArqueoLine s.l. a protocol sampling or the sending of available samples.
Many projects contact with us when they have already excavated an archaeological site, so that the link technician should asses on the suitability of the available samples and advise in the optimization of the analytics to carry out in function of the validity of the available samples.
The samples should be packed in individual containers labeled with an identification acronym previously agreed with the link technician of ArqueoLine s.l. (whether plastic bags, plastic test tubes, glass test tubes or aluminium foils envelopes packaged in individual bags)
If test tubes are utilized one must assure that itself they will not be opened during the transportation, so that it is recommendable to seal them with adhesive foil.
Each sending samples should go accompanied by a form with the basic information and identifiers of analysis previously agree with the link technician through e-mail.
An alternative option is discharging the form of the web site, fill it and send it by e-mail through the web of ArqueoLine s.l., but always in communication with the link technician responsible of its project.
Our Analyses Service database includes an alphanumeric system of identification that includes the acronym of origin of the sample, a correlative numbering and the abbreviation of the analysis to carry out. We recommend that the samples be labeled correlatively to facilitate their identification and management.
If a project request different analyses, the link technician will indicate how labeled the samples for the respective analyses and facilitate the data processing management of the monitoring analysis process.
For example a play of 100 samples can be labeled as continues: JPF001, JPF002, JPF003 until JPF004 to indicate that have been sent by an archaeologist whose initials are JPF or belong to an archaeological site, business or project abbreviation with those letters. Thus for example JPF041GC-MS is the sample 41 of the JPF project that is carried out a Gases Chromatography-Mass Spectrometry.
Agree with its link technician the samples abbreviators and numberings before proceeding to avoid possible labeling coincidence and duplicates in ArqueoLine s.l. database.
Q: Which address the samples should be sent to? How should be sent them?
The assignments should be sent to the postal direction of ArqueoLine s.l. Ltd. and can be carried out for ordinary mail or by messaging service, as you prefer. The refunds that were carried out for messaging service in charge of the client, they will be initially paid by ArqueoLine s.l. and loaded in the final invoice as concept of packaging and return of samples.
Q: What happens when the samples arrives at ArqueoLine s.l.?
When the samples arrive at the link technician that has attended the client consultation collects our installations. Following the agreement of both, the samples are incorporated in the assigned box with the acronym project that serves of identification and their respective correlative numbering. We revise the samples and his alphanumeric label and we proceed to their preparation for the analysis.
Q: Which are the preparations process, treatment and instrumental application of the sample?
This aspect will depend in each case the type of sample and the instrumental techniques to apply. For the details of every technique we refer us at the instrumental techniques section that ArqueoLine s.l. offers.
Q: How much time delays in completing the analysis and to deliver the explanatory report?
The period required to complete an analysis service will depend on the type of analysis, the number of sending samples and the volume of work that in that moment have ours technicians.
One of our obligations toward the client is to comply with the delivery period previously agreed in the conversations with the link technician responsible of the project, so that with the commitment assignment and the budget that signs among ArqueoLine s.l. and the client the results delivery time limit are established.
Q: Does the sent samples will be returned once the analysis completed?
Yes, they will be returned the parts of the non-used samples for the analysis whenever the preparation and the processing do not imply their destruction.
Q: Which are the rates of the Analysis Service of ArqueoLine s.l.?
The prices depend on the types of analysis to carry out, the instrumentation to utilize and the number of sending samples.
For more information request a budget personalized by e-mail through the web of ArqueoLine s.l., Ltd.
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