Possibilities and limitations of pXRF as a tool for analysing ancient pottery: a case study of Late Bronze and Early Iron Age pottery (1100–600 BC) from the northern Black Sea region

Autor: Katja Winger, Elke Kaiser, Kirsten Hellström, Malgorzata Daszkiewicz, Dmytro Nykonenko, Gerwulf Schneider, Marianna Kulkova, Maya Kashuba, Nadezhda Gavrylyuk
Rok vydání: 2020
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Zdroj: Praehistorische Zeitschrift. 95:238-266
ISSN: 1613-0804
0079-4848
DOI: 10.1515/pz-2020-0009
Popis: In an archaeometric research project supported by the Volkswagen Foundation (Project 90216 [https://earlynomads.wordpress.com/]), working groups consisting of chemists, geologists and archaeologists in Berlin, Kiev and Saint Petersburg collaborated on analysing pottery recovered from Late Bronze Age and Early Iron Age burials and settlements from sites of different archaeological cultures in the steppes and forest steppes north of the Black Sea. The article presents the results of the classification of 201 samples using energy-dispersive X-Ray fluorescence spectrometer (pXRF) compared to the results of MGR-analysis and WD-XRF of these samples. Fingerprints for the seven sites studied could be defined.
Databáze: OpenAIRE