Neff et al. (1996)

An Assessment of the Acid-Extraction Approach to Compositional Characterization of Archaeological Ceramics.

H. Neff, M. D. Glascock, R. L. Bishop, and M. J. Blackman (1996). American Antiquity 61(2):389–404.

Abstract

We criticize the acid-extraction approach to chemical characterization of ceramics previously advocated in this journal by Burton and Simon (1993). The instrumental technique used by Burton and Simon (inductively coupled plasma emission spectroscopy [ICP]) is a highly precise chemical characterization technique, but noise introduced by characterizing acid extracts from sherds nullifies the usefulness of the resulting elemental concentration data for archaeological sourcing.

ADDITIONAL NOTES: The data files contain only elemental concentrations reported in this article, not the full NAA data set for the TanqueVerde Red-on-Brown pottery. Field names indicate whether the entries are for ICP, NAA, or fine fraction NAA (F_NAA_ element name). Fine fraction data are present for only 40 specimens, as explained in the article.

Number of samples in dataset: 366

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Recent research reported by the Archaeometry Lab at MURR after June 2005 is based on support by the National Science Foundation under our current grant number 0504015.
Earlier research was supported by several NSF grants, including the following numbers: 8801707, 9102016, 9503035, 9802366, 9977237, 0102325, and 0405042.  Any opinions, findings and conclusions or recommendations expressed in this material are those of the author and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Science Foundation.

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