1. From excavation to conservation -- 1.1. Where will the ship end up? -- 1.2. Reducing damage during salvage and transport -- 1.3. Preparing the ship for conservation -- 2. Wood in its archaeological context -- 2.1. Sound wood -- 2.2. Waterlogged wood
-- 3. Two approaches to the conservation of a ship or boat -- 4. Methods of application of polyethylene glycol -- 4.1. Some surprising laboratory experiments on wood -- 4.2. Scaling up - ships in tanks -- 4.3. One-step or two-step - the range of tank treatments -- 4.4. Pumps and nozzles - spraying treatments -- 4.5. Tank treatment versus spraying - a comparison -- 5. The sucrose method -- 5.1. Sugar in wood - laboratory experiments -- 5.2. Ships in sugar - case studies -- 6. The Lactitol method -- 6.1. Lactitol in wood - laboratory experiments -- 6.2. Lactitol treatments for large objects -- 7. The Kauramin method / by Per Hoffmann and Markus Wittkopper -- 7.1. Melamine in wood - laboratory experiments -- 7.2. Two ships in Kauramin - a case study / by Markus Wittkopper -- 8. Freeze-drying of archaeological waterlogged wood / Paul Jensen ... [et al.] -- 8.1. The theory of freeze-drying -- 8.2. Freeze-drying processes -- 8.3. Ships in a vacuum chamber -- 9. Choosing the `best' method from PEG, sucrose, Lactitol and Kauramin -- 9.1. Assessment of the methods taking various factors into account -- 9.2. How to select the most appropriate method -- 10. From conservation to presentation -- 10.1. Cleaning and surface treatment -- 10.2. Restoration and presentation -- 10.3. Foreseeing the future -- 10.4. Long-term care plans / by James A. Spriggs -- 11. Do effort and funds pay off in the end?
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