Rehydoxylation (Other Keyword)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Shan Zhao. Jaroslaw Drelich. Timothy James Scarlett.

The Fired Clay Ceramic Rehydroxylation Dating (RHX) technique shows potential for establishing date of manufacture for archaeological ceramics, however for certain samples, such as those recovered at Umbro Greek and Sant’ Ancieto sites, the calculated ages were outside of the expected range by many thousand years. The observation of this over-shooting issue suggested that either the non-refractory mass (Mnrc) or some strongly bonded physical water were left during the ordinary drying process at...