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Chris Caple, FSA, FIIC, is a senior lecturer at Durham University, who specialises in the conservation of artefacts. Involved in archaeological excavations from the age of 14 Caple holds degrees from the University of Wales and the University of Bradford. He has worked as a conservator at York Castle Museum and in 1988 was appointed as director of Durham University's artefact conservation postgraduate programme. He has authored two books on archaeology. Early life and educationInvolved in the excavation of archaeological sites since the age of 14, Caple graduated from Cardiff College of the University of Wales in 1979, with a Bachelor of Science in archaeological conservation.{{sfn|Department of Archaeology}} In 1986 he received a Ph.D. from the University of Bradford, for researching the composition and manufacturing of medieval copper alloy pins.{{sfn|Department of Archaeology}} CareerCaple has been an excavating archaeologist for 34 years, an archaeological conservator for 32, and a lecturer in the latter subject for 20 years.{{sfn|Centre for the Ethics of Cultural Heritage}} From 1984, while still a student, to 1988, he worked at the York Castle Museum as the artefacts conservator, after which he took a post at Durham University's department of archaeology as a lecturer in archaeological conservation and archaeological science; in 1988 he also became the director of the university's artefact conservation postgraduate programme.{{sfn|Department of Archaeology}} Caple has authored two books: Conservation Skills: Judgement, Method and Decision Making in 2000,{{sfn|Caple|2000}} and Objects: Reluctant Witnesses to the Past in 2006.{{sfn|Caple|2006}} Both are used as textbooks in courses on conservation, and museum studies.{{sfn|Department of Archaeology}}{{sfn|Scott|2003|p=284}} Conservation Skills was reviewed as a broad assessment of the conservation field,{{sfn|Rhyne|2002}} and as a "well-balanced" book that "achieves a detached approach without preaching to the audience",{{sfn|Scott|2003|p=284}} using case studies to illustrate the underlying issues of, and philosophy of approach to, conservation.{{sfn|Scott|2003|p=283}}{{sfn|Dreghorn|2002|p=118}}{{sfn|Kolb|2001}} A case study on the "re-reconstruction" of the Sutton Hoo helmet, which became an icon of Anglo-Saxon England after it was reconstructed by Herbert Maryon in the 1940s, yet was then reconstructed again by Nigel Williams in the 1970s, focuses on the concepts of reversibility and truthfulness.{{sfn|Caple|2000|pp=132–135}} Publications
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