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This paper reviews the ways in which assemblages of pottery have been quantified throughout the twentieth century, and the use to which such data have been put. The values of various ways of quantifying pottery are compared, and a theoretical basis for the comparison of assemblages is described. Finally, the practical steps that need to be taken to make best use of the theory are set out.

ISSN:0003-813X    

DOI:10.1111/j.1475-4754.1993.tb01033.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1993

数据来源: WILEY

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Magnetic susceptibility provides a rapid, cheap and non‐destructive method of in situ characterization of archaeological artefacts containing magnetic minerals, and can be used as an aid to geological provenancing. Three hundred and sixty‐three Roman granite columns were measured by this method and results show clear groupings and similarities with potential granite sources in Italy, Turkey and Egypt. Magnetic susceptibility measurements must be made on representative, unweathered surfaces of rocks and artefacts, and corrected for object size and surface relief according to manufacturers’recommendations. In addition, corrections for column curvature have been derived for use with measurements made on co

ISSN:0003-813X    

DOI:10.1111/j.1475-4754.1993.tb01034.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1993

数据来源: WILEY

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In this paper we present the results of a chemical investigation by neutron activation analysis of sherds of different kinds of bird kotylai, bird bowls and related wares excavated in Kalabaktepe, a hill of the ancient city of Miletus. A new archaeological classification of this well‐known group of Archaic ceramics of eastern Greece is presented. A number of kiln wasters of misfired vessels from Kalabaktepe revealed a characteristic local pattern. This pattern helped to clarify the provenance of some of the bird bowls classified archaeologically as of orientalizing type: they have been made in Miletus. But bird kotylai and bird bowls in the 'standard fabric’as well as other archaeologically related vessels show a different chemical pattern of unknown provena

ISSN:0003-813X    

DOI:10.1111/j.1475-4754.1993.tb01035.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1993

数据来源: WILEY

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Organic residue analysis has been performed on 62 reconstructed vessels from a single archaeological site (Rounds, Northamptonshire, U.K.). In order to establish regions of lipid accumulation within a vessel, sherds were sampled from different parts of a vessel, for example base, body and rim, and submitted to lipid extraction procedures. The techniques of high‐temperature gas chromatography (GC) and GC/mass spectrometry (GC/MS) were then used to analyse the sherd lipid extracts. The quantitative results obtained show differential accumulation and preservation of lipid in various parts of the same vessel. This latter observation has serious implications for the sampling of potsherds for organic residue analysis. Furthermore, the amount of absorbed lipid varies quite considerably between vessel types. On this basis, a new method is proposed for classifying vessel use by comparing the concentration of lipid present in different parts of individual vessel

ISSN:0003-813X    

DOI:10.1111/j.1475-4754.1993.tb01036.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1993

数据来源: WILEY

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Fifty‐five fragments of Roman glass from Augusta Praetoria (Aosta, Italy) were analysed by inductively coupled plasma optical emission spectroscopy determining 15 elements (Si, Na, Ca, Al, Fe, Mg, Mn, Ti, Sr, Ba, Cr, Ni, Cu, Co and Pb) on dissolved samples; in addition, potassium was determined by flame atomic absorption spectroscopy. The analytical results indicate that all the fragments, with one exception, are silica‐soda‐lime glasses; (he exception is a potash glass. Cluster analysis was performed on the analytical data by accounting for either 14 (all the elements searched for but Ni and Pb) or eight elements (after further removal of Si, Fe, Mn, Cr, Cu and Co from the data set). The results obtained indicate that, once colouring and decolouring agents are removed, the classification of the glasses seems to be mainly determined by chronology; separate groups within coeval fragments may indicate different proven

ISSN:0003-813X    

DOI:10.1111/j.1475-4754.1993.tb01037.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1993

数据来源: WILEY

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DOI:10.1111/j.1475-4754.1993.tb01038.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1993

数据来源: WILEY

ISSN:0003-813X    

DOI:10.1111/j.1475-4754.1993.tb01039.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1993

数据来源: WILEY

ISSN:0003-813X    

DOI:10.1111/j.1475-4754.1993.tb01040.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1993

数据来源: WILEY

ISSN:0003-813X    

DOI:10.1111/j.1475-4754.1993.tb01041.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1993

数据来源: WILEY

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Ancient copper coins from the Greek cities Nikopolis in Epirus and Thessaloniki in Macedonia, minted during Roman imperial times (31 BC to AD 268), were analysed non‐destructively by proton induced X‐ray emission, after removal of the patina. An intercompar‐ison study using different analytical methods was also performed on five coins. Eleven elements were analysed quantitatively on all coins. Statistical analysis of the results was performed for their presentation in the form of dendrograms. Finally, the variations in the concentrations of some individual elements from emperor to emperor were exa

ISSN:0003-813X    

DOI:10.1111/j.1475-4754.1993.tb01042.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1993

数据来源: WILEY