Meet the editor

Prof. (full) Daniela Turcanu-Carutiu, Ph.D. is the Director of Institute of Science, Culture and Spirituality, Ovidius University of Constanta, Romania, including Center of Expertise Art Works by Advanced Instrumental Methods. Her research interest is in the heritage field: in physico-chemical investigation by advanced instrumental methods for authentication, conservation, restoration art works, archaeology components of cultural heritage,

materials: pigments-colors and chromatology. She is the author of a reference book on cultural heritage, co-author of numerous chapters and articles published in internationally prestigious journals, citations in ISI Thomson Web of Science. Her research projects include: an integrated approach for reinforcement of historical chalk monuments by means of nanomaterials based treatments, new diagnosis and treatment technologies for the preservation and revitalization of archaeological components of the national cultural heritage.

Contents

**Section 1**

Significance in African Heritage

*by Louis Fagbohoun and Cathy Vieillescazes*

Used in Their Confection

*by Francesco Rotondo*

Historic Masonry

*and María Domizio*

A Comparative Study

*by Thekla Pfeiffer-Deml*

**Section 2**

*by Herman Ogoti Kiriama and Edith Nyangara Onkoba*

**Preface XIII**

Cultural Heritage **1**

**Chapter 1 3**

**Chapter 2 21**

**Chapter 3 39**

**Chapter 4 55**

**Chapter 5 75**

**Chapter 6 89**

Natural Heritage **109**

**Chapter 7 111**

Cultural Heritage Objects of Southern Benin: Plant Dyes and Exudates

*by Noemi Graciela Maldonado, Pablo Martín, Gerardo González del Solar* 

Promoting Territorial Cultural Systems through Urban Planning

Cultural Heritage of a Three Centuries Old Wooden Church *by Patricia Săsăran, Ancuța Țenter and Lorelay-Diana Jianu*

Tropaeum Augusti (France) and Tropaeum Traiani (Romania):

What Does the Mass Accumulation of 100 Late Pleistocene Fallow

from Neumark-Nord Reveal about the Cause of Death?

Deer Skeletons (*Dama geiselana*) and Red Deer Skeletons (*Cervus elaphus*)

*by Alexandru Ș. Bologa and Ana-Maria Grămescu*
