Determining pottery provenance:: application of a new high-precision X-ray fluorescence method and comparison with instrumental neutron activation analysis

Pages & Document Description:
1 - 24; figs; refs; tables
URL/DOI:
http://www.rlaha.ox.ac.uk/archy/archindx.html
Authors:
Adan-Bayewitz, D; Asaro, F; Giauque, R D
Abstract:
A high-precision X-ray fluorescence (XRF) method, applied to the study of archaeological pottery, determines the abundances of thirteen trace and four major elements from one X-ray spectrum acquired over a 1000 second counting interval. As well as these results, the paper discusses the relative virtues and ease of sample preparation and analytical procedure of this method, its accuracy and effectiveness, as demonstrated in provenancing two samples of Middle Eastern pottery. Includes Dodds, Damaris
Dataset:
BIAB
Classifications:
1B, 1F
Appendices
Title
Appendix I:: element abundances of samples measured by high-precision X-ray fluorescence
Year: 1999
Dataset: BIAB
Appendix II:: element abundances of samples measured by INAA (which were also measured by high-precision XRF)
Year: 1999
Dataset: BIAB
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