AN ASSESSMENT OF THE ACID-EXTRACTION APPROACH TO COMPOSITIONAL CHARACTERIZATION OF ARCHAEOLOGICAL CERAMICS

Authors
NEFF H GLASCOCK MD BISHOP RL BLACKMAN MJ
Citation
H. Neff et al., AN ASSESSMENT OF THE ACID-EXTRACTION APPROACH TO COMPOSITIONAL CHARACTERIZATION OF ARCHAEOLOGICAL CERAMICS, American antiquity, 61(2), 1996, pp. 389-404
Citations number
22
Categorie Soggetti
Archaeology,Archaeology
Journal title
American antiquity → ACNP
ISSN journal
00027316
Volume
61
Issue
2
Year of publication
1996
Pages
389 - 404
Database
ISI
SICI code
0002-7316(1996)61:2<389:AAOTAA>2.0.ZU;2-J
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 (inductive ly coupled plasma emission spectroscopy [ICP]) is a highly precise che mical characterization technique, but noise introduced by characterizi ng acid extracts from sherds nullifies the usefulness of the resulting elemental concentration data for archeological sourcing.