Clay paste mixtures identified by Neutron Activation Analysis in pottery of a Roman workshop in Bonn, Germany

A series of four well-defined elemental patterns found among pottery of a Roman workshop site at Bonn could be identified as mixtures of two initial components in different mixing ratios. The detection method for such mixtures and its application to a databank of 137 chemical patterns, which have be...

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Published inJournal of archaeological science Vol. 31; no. 9; pp. 1251 - 1258
Main Authors Schwedt, A., Mommsen, H.
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Amsterdam Elsevier Ltd 01.09.2004
Elsevier Science
Subjects
Clay paste mixture
Compositional data
Discriminant analysis
Excavation and methods
Laboratory methods
Mahalanobis distance
Methodology and general studies
Neutron Activation Analysis
Physical and chemical analysis
Pottery
Prehistory and protohistory
Statistical grouping
Roman
Europe
Germany
Neutron Activation Analysis
Discriminant analysis
Clay paste mixture
Pottery
Statistical grouping
Mahalanobis distance
Compositional data
Site
Clay
Chemical analysis
Workshop
Ceramics
Method
Neutron activation
Detection
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Summary:A series of four well-defined elemental patterns found among pottery of a Roman workshop site at Bonn could be identified as mixtures of two initial components in different mixing ratios. The detection method for such mixtures and its application to a databank of 137 chemical patterns, which have been found in the Bonn Neutron Activation Analysis (NAA) databank of 2520 samples of pottery from Germany, is described. Finally, the possibilities of obtaining additional information by identifying groups as paste mixtures are discussed.
ISSN:0305-4403
1095-9238
DOI:10.1016/j.jas.2004.02.003