experimental archaeology, sponge spicule tempered pottery (Material Keyword)

DOCUMENT Full-Text Nathan Lawres. David Collins. Megan Ware. Jessica Dees.

This dataset includes information related to a series of experimental ceramic assemblages created to test the relationship between temper type and the performance characteristics of strength and toughness. Three temper groups were created: untempered, sand-tempered, and fused silica (as a proxy for siliceous sponge spicules) tempered. Each temper group was divided into to firing temperatures: 500C and 700C. All samples were subjected to testing with a Mark-10 ESM303 motorized test stand equipped...