An Assessment of the Acid-Extraction Approach to Compositional Characterization of Archaeological Ceramics
- 1 April 1996
- journal article
- Published by Cambridge University Press (CUP) in American Antiquity
- Vol. 61 (2) , 389-404
- https://doi.org/10.2307/282433
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.Keywords
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