Recent advancements in the characterization of archaeological wood
摘要
Archeological wood is a vital organic archive, yet its degraded state challenges traditional methods for species identification, provenance resolution, and decay assessment. This review synthesizes state-of-the-art advances—integrating artificial intelligence, isotopic systems, and molecular biology—and proposes a four-tier hierarchical diagnostic framework that moves the field from qualitative description to quantitative, high-resolution analysis. Landmark case studies demonstrate how multi-scalar data fusion provides mechanistic understanding of structural decay inaccessible through conventional approaches.