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Analysis of Shell-Tempered Pottery Replicates: Implications for Provenance Studies

By James W. Cogswell , Hector Neff , Michael D. Glascock.

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History Archaeology
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Исторические дисциплины;Археология;Методы археолог

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American Antiquity, Vol. 63, No. 1 (Jan., 1998), 63-72.Archaeometric methods such as provenance studies must be predicated on understanding the processes that underlie the production of this information. This study focuses on element-based provenance studies of Mississippian-period pottery, which are complicated by the fact that this pottery generally was tempered with crushed shell in different amounts and of unknown species composition. Experiments conducted at the Missouri University Research Reactor (MURR) have documented elemental dilution and enhancement effects of adding shell temper to clay. Mathematical corrections previously have been employed to correct for shell-temper effects. Results of physical, chemical, and mathematical approaches to eliminating the effects of shell tempering indicate that mathematical methods, based on a firm knowledge of shell composition, provide the most efficient correction.

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