Comment on Weymouth's “X-Ray Diffraction Analysis of Prehistoric Pottery”
- 1 October 1974
- journal article
- Published by Cambridge University Press (CUP) in American Antiquity
- Vol. 39 (4Part1) , 619-620
- https://doi.org/10.2307/278913
Abstract
Weymouth's X-ray diffraction analysis of prehistoric pottery necessitates a reevaluation of what diffraction peaks and "groupings" of peaks mean culturally. Specifically, archaeologists need to clarify what they mean by "temper" and what "temper" means behaviorally. X-ray diffraction will not screen out naturally occurring inclusions in the clay from those added by potters; consequently, X-ray data based on mineral ratios cannot necessarily be interpreted culturally as "temper" added by potters.Keywords
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