Acid Extraction as a Simple and Inexpensive Method for Compositional Characterization of Archaeological Ceramics
- 20 January 1993
- journal article
- Published by Cambridge University Press (CUP) in American Antiquity
- Vol. 58 (1) , 45-59
- https://doi.org/10.2307/281453
Abstract
An acid-extraction method for analyzing the composition of ceramics produces highly precise results capable of intraregional discrimination of production loci. The method is safe, inexpensive, minimally destructive, and uses widely available instrumentation. It produces results that are highly useful in archaeological interpretation as illustrated by selected case studies.Keywords
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