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A new method for the identification of temper in pottery (2017)
DOCUMENT Citation Only Christian Reepmeyer. Mathieu Leclerc. Karen Joyce. Geoffrey Clark. Daud A. Tanudirjo.

This poster presents new research on a novel technique to analyse temper in archaeological ceramics. The outcome of the study was to assess whether petrographic analysis of temper grains can be automated through the combination of mineral mapping and remote sensing. Ten pottery samples were analysed by automated mineral mapping. The output of analysis is an image of mineral distribution, based on 15 micron spot analyses, with a quantification of total abundancies of minerals in the sample. The...