LA-ICP-MS (Other Keyword)
1-25 (29 Records)
Major advances in the Laboratory and Field Use of Portable X-Rarchaeologyay Fluorescence (pXRF) and the newly developed LASAR ABLATION ICP-MS (ICP-MS) in archaeology are enabling investigators to gain new insights into the elemental and chemical content of laboratory and field samples of artifact, soil and plant materials. Many of these advances have come directly from laboratory studies and field geochemical investigations initiatiated by mineral industry and governmental organizations and...
Appendix B - Glass Bead Descriptions by Provenience (2015)
This is a sortable version of Appendix B of the dissertation. Data recorded in this table include a description of all glass beads and pendants used in the project, detailed provenience information for each artifact, and an assignment to a Kidd and Kidd bead typology category.
Appendix C - Glass Bead Compositional Data (2015)
This is the complete compositional dataset for glass beads and pendants analyzed in the project. The data are in an Excel spreadsheet which may be sorted and edited. If you are using these data for comparative purposed, please be sure to cite the dissertation. Major elements are reported in weight percent of oxides, minor elements in parts per million.
Ceramic Manufacturing and Distribution Networks in Early Jamaica: Interpretive Implications of LA-ICP-MS and NAA Analyses on Coarse Earthenwares from 18th-Century Plantation Contexts (2018)
Archaeologists have long been intrigued by hand‐built, open‐fired coarse earthenwares found on 18th‐ and 19th‐century sites occupied by enslaved Africans in the Caribbean and United States. In Jamaica, these hand‐built coarse earthenwares, often referred to as Yabbas, were likely manufactured and marketed by enslaved specialists. Several different varieties of glazed and/or kiln‐fired coarse earthenwares, not easily assigned to a known ware-type, are also routinely found in plantation contexts....
Ceramic Production and Community Formation in the Middle Little Colorado River Valley, Northern Arizona (2017)
As is true today, migration throughout the past had a phenomenal impact on communities through the renegotiation of cultural practices, community and social identity. Using LA-ICP-MS I investigate community formation through shared ceramic production practices in Northern Arizona during the Pueblo III period (1125-1275 C.E.). This paper introduces the preliminary results of ceramic compositional analysis from contemporaneous sites in the middle Little Colorado River valley. During short-term...
Changes in production and distribution patterns of olivine-tempered ceramics in the Arizona Strip and adjacent areas (2016)
Artifact assemblages from the Arizona Strip and adjacent area are characterized by widely distributed ceramics tempered with olivine, a volcanic mineral. Sources of olivine lie in the vicinity of Mt. Trumbull and Tuweep, near the northwestern part of the Grand Canyon. The olivine-tempered ceramics were distributed mostly westward from Mt. Trumbull, up to 100 km to the lowland Virgin area in southern Nevada between A.D. 200 and 1350. Ultimately, the goal of this study is to understand why ceramic...
Chemical and Isotopic Data for Glass Trade Beads and Lead Shot from 18th-Century Pensacola, FL
The two datasets presented are the results of chemical and isotopic analysis using LA-ICP-MS and ICP-MS. A sample of 400 monochrome glass seed beads and 150 lead bird and buck shot were analyzed as part of the author's Ph.D. dissertation. Chemical data for over 50 elements are presented in parts per million and weight percent for the glass beads and lead isotopic ratios are presented for the lead shot.
Chemical Data of Glass Trade Beads from 18th-Century Pensacola, FL (2020)
A sample of 400 glass beads were analyzed using LA-ICP-MS. Results for over 50 elements are presented in parts per million and weight percent.
Copper Exchange in Precontact Virginia: An LA-ICP-MS Study (2016)
Research into broad patterns of trade and exchange in prehistoric North America suggests that from AD 800-1700, objects made from copper featured prominently in Native American exchange networks. Native polities saw copper as an insignia of social and economic power and sought to control its flow and distribution. Scholars have long hypothesized that prior to European contact in the Middle Atlantic region (AD1607), Native polities in Virginia predominantly traded copper acquired from the Blue...
Development and Applications of a Minimally Destructive Method of Sourcing Shell via LA-ICP-MS (2015)
Shell artifacts and shell-tempered ceramics can be chemically sourced to point of origin because shellfish are in approximate chemical equilibrium with the waterways they inhabit. Analyzing artifacts or shell temper via Laser Ablation-Inductively Coupled Plasma-Mass Spectrometry is attractive due to the minimally destructive nature of the method. A pilot study in Mississippi funded by the NCPTT verified the potential of the method for sourcing shell-tempered pottery. Subsequent work includes the...
Elemental Analysis of Scioto Valley Hopewell Copper (2016)
Artifacts of copper occupy a position of prominence in the Hopewell societies of Ohio’s Scioto Valley. Earspools, repousse plaques, effigy cutouts, celts, and a wide variety of other forms represent a technological and artistic mastery of the medium. These artifacts also represent the social contacts and long distance interactions that brought copper to the Scioto Valley and yet our understanding of copper acquisition for Ohio Hopewell, and the movement of copper artifacts within the social...
Elemental Compositions (LA-ICP-MS) of Glass Beads from L'Ancienne-Lorette (CeEu-11), Quebec (2021)
This file contains compositional analysis information obtained for 78 glass trade beads (mainly simple, drawn varieties of blue and white beads) excavated from Huron-Wendat contexts at the Notre-Dame-de-Lorette Mission Site (CeEu-11), Quebec. The artifacts were analyzed using Laser Ablation - Inductively Coupled Plasma - Mass Spectrometry (LA-ICP-MS) conducted at the Elemental Analysis Facility of the Field Museum, Chicago. This minimally-invasive analysis, conducted with permission from the...
The Explanation of Ceramic Variation in East African Prehistory: New LA-ICP-MS Results from Gogo Falls, Kenya (2015)
Two of Frannie Berdan’s abiding research interests are the concept of ethnic identity and the application of scientific analyses to archaeological problems. These two topics intersect in research on pottery in East Africa. Pioneering work in the 1970s by Simiyu Wandibba led to the recognition of several ceramic ‘wares’ represented among Neolithic and later assemblages from Kenya and northern Tanzania. The occurrence on some sites of more than one ware in the same occupation horizon challenged...
External Standards for the LA-ICP-MS analysis of North American copper artifacts: looking at different approaches (2017)
Ideally, data produced by different laboratories performing the same type of analysis should be comparable. Comparability is important for exchanging data and the building of large databases in particular areas of research. Recently, the sourcing of North American copper using laser ablation – inductively coupled plasma – mass spectrometry (LA-ICP-MS) has developed significantly, prompting questions about the compatibility of the different published data sets. Several parameters affect the...
Frontier Networks Archaeological Project - Culture Contact in Mississippian west-Central Illinois
For thousands of years, demographic upheaval and migration have led to social settings where distinct human populations coexist. Communities pursue various types of interaction in these multiethnic contexts, ranging from the maintenance of ethnic distinctions through social and political pluralism to the adoption of traits as part of processes of ethnogenesis. This project seeks to examine changes in networks of social interaction, identity, and exchange following a migration process in a...
Glass Bead Image File Join Table (2015)
This is a two-column spreadsheet listing the name of each *.jpg of all glass beads and pendants examined in the study. They are listed along with the sample ID of each artifact. The images themselves will be uploaded into a separate *.pdf. The complete Filemaker Pro 13 glass bead database, which includes artifact provenience information, images, and compositional analysis results obtained with LA-ICP-MS is available from the author upon request. This is a *.fmp12 file type, which is not...
Investigating 17th Century Wendat Patterns of Interactions in Global Contexts – Contributions from Glass Bead Studies (2023)
This is an abstract from the session entitled "Glass Beads: Global Artefacts, Local Perspectives", at the 2023 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Tracing Wendat patterns of interaction in the 17th century AD is a long-standing research topic in Ontario and the broader Great Lakes region. To address this, new research employing both historical documentation and composition of the glass trade beads is beginning to untangle the networks of cross-Atlantic exchange that...
Isotope and Elemental Analyses Using Portable Laser Ablation at the Elemental Analysis Facility: A Progress Report (2024)
This is an abstract from the "Twenty Years of Archaeological Science at the Field Museum’s Elemental Analysis Facility" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The study of archaeological artifacts often needs to be undertaken with no or very limited damage to the objects. It is with this constraint in mind that the Elemental Analysis Facility at the Field Museum was established. The choice of laser ablation–inductively coupled plasma–mass spectrometry...
Jamestown’s "Blew Beads": More than Meets the Eye (2023)
This is an abstract from the session entitled "Opening the Vault: What Collections Can Say About Jamestown’s Global Trade Network", at the 2023 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Simple, drawn, turquoise blue beads (Kidd and Kidd IIa40), often referred to by a number of different regional names (e.g., Ichtucknee Plain, Early Blue), are one of the most common varieties recovered on colonial sites in North America. Beads of this variety dominate the 17th century James...
LA-ICP-MS (Laser Ablation Inductively Coupled Plasma Mass Spectrometry) of Jet Artifacts from Spanish Colonial Florida (2022)
This is an abstract from the session entitled "Paper / Report Submission (General Sessions)" , at the 2022 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Jet was often used in the Spain for religious venera, crosses, and beads for rosaries. At the same time, the material itself was believed to have special properties making it an ideal substance for amulets, such as figas (higas). During the early 16th century the primary location for the production of jet items was controlled by...
Lead Isotope Ratio data for 150 Lead Shot from 18th-Century Pensacola, FL (2020)
All ratio combinations for lead isotopes for the lead shot analyzed.
Making and Moving Pottery in the Northern Lake Titicaca Basin, Peru (2018)
Pukara, in the northern Lake Titicaca Basin, was a regional center during the Late Formative Period (200 BC- AD 200). The Classic Pukara style is associated with monumental public constructions and sunken temples, elaborate stone sculpture, and a unique polychrome pottery tradition. Spotted felines, disembodied heads, camelids and plants, and anthropomorphic figures were incised and painted on incense burners, trumpets, and other special purpose ceramic vessels that were circulated in the...
Metal Artifact Attribute Dataset (2015)
This spreadsheet was exported from the Filemaker Pro database and contains all of the information contained in that database except the images. The join table of image filenames linked to database ID for artifacts is uploaded as a separate file, as is a pdf of the database including the images associated with each record. A fully functional copy of the database (created in Filemaker Pro 13) is available from the author upon request. The Filemaker database filetype (*.fmp12) is not supported by...
Metal Artifact Attribute Dataset Image Join Table (2015)
This is a two-column spreadsheet that lists the name of each image file (*.jpg) associated with each artifact in the metal attribute database. Artifacts are sorted by their database ID (HW-00001 to HW-03410). The actual image files are saved in a Filemaker Pro database, available upon request. Individual artifact images may be located using the database ID number in this table and requested from the author.
Reporting New Collections of Glass Beads from France (16th - 19th Century): Typology and Chemical Composition (2023)
This is an abstract from the session entitled "Glass Beads: Global Artefacts, Local Perspectives", at the 2023 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. European glass beads were intensively used for trading in the colonies of Africa, Asia and the Americas from the 16th to the early 20th century. Although found in large amounts in colonial sites, our knowledge of their production and their use in Europe is very limited. In this presentation, we discuss seven new collections...