Convocatoria 2024-IV

This call includes requests for preventive conservation, remedial conservation, and restoration interventions, for archaeological and paleontological heritage, either in situ or at the CENIEH.

It is important to give a detailed description of the pieces which the CR Laboratory is requested to act on, so that the intervention time necessary can be assessed:

• Number of pieces.

• Chronology / Period.

• Material: bone, lithic industry, ceramics, metal (specify), glass, stone, wood, wall paintings, etc. (If the materials are mixed, describe each piece individually.)[1]

• Brief description of the assemblage.

• Graphical documentation of each piece or the assemblage.

• Any additional documentation desired.

A detailed description of the service requested of the Laboratory is also required:

• Purpose of the request. Intended result of the intervention: purposes of study, display, etc.

• Remedial conservation and restoration: mechanical-chemical-physical cleaning, corrosion inhibition, biocide treatments, desalination, consolidation, formal reconstruction, formal and chromatic reintegration, etc.[2]

• Casts and replicas (1:1).

• Preventive conservation interventions: technical consultancy, environmental control, systems of storage or packaging (for transit), display, etc.

The cultural heritage to be intervened should be sent to the facilities of the Conservation & Restoration Laboratory at CENIEH (Burgos).

The service includes the compilation of a synoptic REPORT with a photographic dossier of the intervention. This report have a fee pre-stablish in rates and fees in the web-site.

A detailed description of the service requested in fieldwork or outside the CENIEH facilities is also required. Laboratory staff will only travel to conduct conservation-restoration work:

• Preventive conservation, remedial conservation and restoration in the field: methods for in situ conservation, extraction systems, storage and transit, field laboratory, etc.

• Casts in situ: occupation floors, stratigraphy, imprints, ichnites, etc.

• Analysis of collections and technical conservation consultancy.

Bearing in mind all the information received, the Laboratory staff will assess the time necessary for the intervention (in hours), during the internal evaluation phase.

The call will be allocated a maximum of 400 hours of Laboratory work as estimated by its staff, with a maximum of 120 hours' work per request[3].

Proposals may be sent between June 6 and July 6, up to 23:59 hours (Madrid time). Any electronic request received after the deadline indicated will not be evaluated for this call.

For queries about submitting proposals and access details, you may contact Pilar Fernández Colón: pilar.fernandez@cenieh.es, and Raquel Lorenzo Cases: raquel.lorenzo@cenieh.es, stating as reference the code CR2024-II.

For further information or help with the User Office portal, contact user@cenieh.es, citing the code CR2024-II.

1. In the case of heterogeneous materials, describe each group or piece.

2.  The CR Laboratory staff can suggest the application of additional conservation-restoration procedures if they consider them necessary once they have evaluated the state of conservation of the pieces.

3. If the request will require more time, it is recommended to submit it during successive competitive windows, whenever this is possible.