Summary: This publication commemorates the 50th anniversary of the conservation laboratory of the University of Pennsylvania Museum which is now part of the new Center for the Analysis of Archaeological Materials. These papers were presented at an international symposium to celebrate the collaboration of conservators with allied professionals.

Contents: Section 1: Engaging Education - Gentlewomen in the field and museum: unacknowledged pioneers in the development of conservation as both profession and university discipline - the London case ; Pedagogy and the 'working collection': teaching technical research and experimental archaeology at the Johns Hopkins Archaeological Museum ; Working hand-in-hand: archaeological science meets conservation at the Center for the Analysis of Archaeological Materials ; A critical review of 25 years of training activities in archaeological conservation ; Archaeological conservation education at the MVAP Poggio Colla Field School. Section 2: Engaging Archaeology - Conservation at Abydos: past practices and future possibilities ; On-site conservation at Amara West in Sudan: 80 years in the making ; Supporting our colleagues: positive partnerships between MAC Lab conservators and archaeologists in the Mid-Atlantic region ; Conservation support in field projects in China ; Facilitating collaboration between archaeologists and conservators at Morgantina (Sicily) ; History of object conservation at the Gordion Archaeological Project, Turkey. Section 3: Engaging Community - Supporting community revitalization: curatorial and conservation stewardship at the Penn Museum ; Learning from an 'old one': a Tlingit basket makes its journey home ; An integrated approach to the conservation of cultural collections ; Conservation and community at the Inca site in Aypate, Peru ; The effects on conservation of the changing appreciation of central African objects ; Conserving the tataayiyam honuuka' (ancestors): a case study at the Autry Museum of the American West. Section 4: Engaging Institutions - The Ur Digitization Project: examination of the metals from an Akkadian tomb at Ur ; Crossing the 'river of gold' from Sitio Conte to El Caño, Panama: an historical perspective on archaeology/conservation collaboration ; The sea, the sub, and maritime collaboration: how conservators and archaeologists worked together to recover and conserve the H.L. Hunley submarine ; Chemistry revisited in a laboratory for art ; An evolving approach for the conservation of pottery vessels at the Arizona State Museum ; We need to move it, move it: a large-scale collections move project at the Penn Museum. Section 5: Engaging Science - A rare reference resource: five Lakota painted buffalo robes from the Standing Rock Reservation ; Down in the dumps: analysis of glass production debris from Petrie's excavations at Amarna ; A comparative study of TEOS-based formulations for the consolidation of adobe ; Gaining new insights into ethnographic materials through collagen fingerprinting: cross-discipline collaborations ; Collaboratively thinking forward: three-dimensional (3D) data in conservation and archaeology ; Technology from 2,000 years ago and today: using 3D printing and scanning to reconstruct a kylix by the potter Euphronios.

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