Ceramic Production and Circulation in the Greater Southwest: Source Determination by INAA and Complementary Mineralogical Investigations

Edited by D. M. Glowacki and H. Neff (2001). UCLA Press.

Abstract

The use of instrumental neutron activation analysis (INAA) in ceramic research in the American Southwest has become widespread over the last ten years. This volume presents case studies of Southwestern ceramic production and distribution in which INAA is used as the primary analytical technique. Most of the studies were first presented in a symposium at the 1997 Society for American Archaeology Meetings in Nashville, Tennessee. Reduced to barest essentials, all of the papers address the question of ceramic provenance, using provenance determination to explore such issues as migration, social identity, and economic organization. Our goal in bringing these papers together is to convey a sense of the cumulative contribution to knowledge of Southwest prehistory that INAA-based ceramic characterization is making as of the late 1990s. The INAA-based provenance projects described in this volume generated substantial databases of artifact chemical analyses that, with careful attention to data compatibility issues, can continue to be built upon in the future. These databases are available for downloading in the following section. The field "data_srce" indicates the laboratory of origin and the calibration history of each analysis. The field "chem1" indicates chemical affiliation, as discussed in the corresponding chapter. Other fields should be self-explanatory. As with the other MURR data available on this web page, the data available here are compatible with other MURR data, but they must be calibrated for compatibility with INAA data generated in other labs. Some of the files available below include data from NIST or Texas A&M that have already been calibrated to MURR standards.

This download includes all datasets from this edited volume.

The database file is in Excel format (977K in .zip file). Please fill in the following information to receive the files for this publication.