The Materials Science and its impact in the Archaeology

As product of the multidisciplinary interaction in the study of Archaeology by means of the Materials science, the use of techniques as Electronic microscopy, Tunneling microscopy, Particle accelerators, Diffractometry, Spectrometers, etc, it has become common. At the same time, the edition of research works in this respect goes in increase. It proves of this, it is the great quantity of published works or presented in international forums, just as the symposium 'Archaeological Issues in Materials Science' that is carried out each year inside the International Materials Congress organized by the Mexican Academy of Materials Science. In this book they have been compiled part of the works presented inside this symposium, carried out in the edition 2003 with the purpose of that they are captured so that they allow their access to specialists and for the public in general, making emphasis in the advantages that it represents the use of the analytical techniques in the study of different archaeological and historical materials. Most of the works is the result of the collaboration of investigators of different institutions, mainly of Mexico, and of some of other countries like Italy, Hungary and Japan. Finally it is important to point out that one of the purposes of the present works it consists on showing that it is possible the use of the Material Science and their modern analytical techniques in the understanding of the behavior of the old cultures and contiguous themes, for that which is fundamental the conformation of multidisciplinary and inter institutional groups. (Author)