pottery, chemistry, petrography, group formation (Other Keyword)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Vassilis Kilikoglou. Anno Hein.

Historically, pottery provenance studies in the Aegean were conducted by the application of chemical techniques for element determination. The underlying principle was that ceramics made with the same clay paste should exhibit lower chemical variability than those with different pastes. Although this principle has not changed over the years, pottery studies have undergone serious analytical and most importantly, methodological developments. The main reason for the methodological developments...