Archaeometry (Other Keyword)

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Making an Ancestor at Actuncan: Exploring the Origins, Health, Burial Treatment and Taphonomy of a Late Classic Maya Residential Eastern Structure (2018)
DOCUMENT Citation Only Carolyn Freiwald. Kara Fulton. Nicholas Billstrand. Destiny Micklin.

The patio adjacent to the eastern structure of Group 1 at the site of Actuncan served as a burial ground for generations. At least twelve individuals in more than seven graves were buried at one of the oldest residential groups at the site during the Late Classic period (AD 600-900). Eastern structures were used to bury revered ancestors in the Belize River Valley, but nearly all of the Actuncan Group 1 burials were disturbed by later burials. When was it acceptable to disturb an ancestor, and...


Marble Provenance Investigation of the Roman Sabine Sarcophagus (2014)
DOCUMENT Citation Only Fred White.

Open Journal of Archaeometry A Florida Archaeological Survey Archaeometry Project in association with laboratory studies at The Institute of Structure of Matter of the Italian National Research Council, Rome, Italy and the University of Georgia, Department of Geology, Athens, Georgia, United States The provenance of marbles used for making sarcophagi during the Roman period is an important question and scientific analysis can provide a strong confirmation and basis for future studies...


Metal Artifact Attribute Dataset (2015)
DATASET Heather Walder.

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)
DATASET Heather Walder.

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.


More than a Rusty Nail: Archaeometric Analysis of Wrought Iron Nails from Fallen Tree, St. Catherines Island, Georgia. (2015)
DOCUMENT Citation Only Nicholas Triozzi. Henry Towbin. Glen Keeton.

Computed Tomography (CT) scanning empowers researchers to analyze the physical properties of archaeological materials beyond their superficial qualities. Micro CT enables one to non-destructively observe and measure interior features of an artifact with high precision. It also allows one to segment conjoined materials by their relative densities. The processed images can be exported as 3-dimensional models and analyzed in an array of open-source software applications. In this case study we use...


Multi-Element Characterization of Early Nineteenth Century Pottery Sherds from Native American and Euro-American Sites (2015)
DOCUMENT Citation Only Mark Schurr. Patrick Donohue. Antonio Simonetti.

Fine earthenwares imported from England are a distinctive type of artifact frequently found on early nineteenth century Native American and Euro-American sites. Relatively rapid changes in decorative motifs and technologies can easily be identified by eye and provide information about site chronology and economic status. However, visual analyses of sherds usually can usually provide only general information because of the fragmentary nature of most assemblages. For example, transfer printed...


Naturwissenschaftliche Kriterien und Verfahren zur Beschreibung von Keramik: Diskussionsergebnisse der Projektgruppe Keramik im Arbeitskreis Archäometrie (1989)
DOCUMENT Citation Only G Schneider.

This resource is a citation record only, the Center for Digital Antiquity does not have a copy of this document. The information in this record has been migrated into tDAR from the EXARC Bibliography, originally compiled by Roeland Paardekooper, and updated. Most of these records consist of a document citation and other metadata but do not have the documents themselves uploaded. If you have a digital copy of the document and would like to have it curated in tDAR, please contact us using the...


Neutron Activation Analysis of San Juan Red Ware Pottery (2015)
DOCUMENT Citation Only James Allison. Jeffrey Ferguson.

San Juan Red Ware pottery is most common in southeastern Utah, where most of it appears to have been made, but is widely distributed throughout the Four Corners region from about A.D. 750 to 1100. Neutron Activation Analysis of San Juan Red Ware potsherds shows that there were numerous production locales, and red ware pottery from southeast Utah falls into several distinguishable chemical groups. These chemical groups have distributions that suggest relatively little exchange among the...


Of Mud and Magnets: Archaeometric Prospection at the Site of Altica (2017)
DOCUMENT Citation Only Andrés Mejía Ramón. Luis Barba.

The Formative Period site of Altica in the Patlachique range poses many problems when designing an excavation strategy. Three millennia of erosion, and centuries of chisel plowing have eviscerated the site, removing any traces of architecture and in situ remains above the tepetate (local bedrock). As such, in the early stages of the Altica Project, the primary concern was the detection and identification of sub-surface remains inside intact bedrock-incised pits. In most archaeological sites, the...


The Organization and Technology of Sicán Metalworks: pXRF Analysis of Floors and Associated Residues (2015)
DOCUMENT Citation Only Izumi Shimada. John Merkel.

The technical sophistication and versatility of 1000-year old Middle Sicán gold and other metalworks on the Peruvian north coast have long been appreciated. How were the artisans, raw materials and diverse manufacturing activities organized and managed? This paper aims to answer this and other technical, behavioral and organizational questions based on the 2014 excavation of a large and well-preserved workshop at the base of the monumental temple mound of Huaca Loro at the Middle Sicán capital...


Petrographic analysis of ceramics and construction materials: The dwellers of Cueva del Maguey in the Sierra Madre Occidental and the Ferreria site of the Guadiana valley in Durango, Mexico. (2015)
DOCUMENT Citation Only Cindy Sandoval. José Luis Punzo. Héctor Víctor Cabadas.

The archaeological site of the Ferrería (550-1350d.C), is undoubtedly the most important prehispanic settlement of Chalchihuites Culture in the Guadiana valley in Durango. The work done was based on a chronology made for Charles Kelley who divides into two main branches (Súchil and Guadiana). The presence of archaeological materials allowed reconsider the provenance of ceramics Madero Fluted type in the Guadiana valley and the Sierra Madre Occidental, activities and tasks has been important in...


Physical Characterization of Stoneware Ceramic Materials (2015)
DOCUMENT Citation Only Steven Sarich. Timothy James Scarlett.

The Davenport Pottery manufactured earthenware and stoneware in Utah, between 1853 and 1888. This poster uses data from a broad range of analyses, including XRF, INAA, petrography, and mechanical stress testing to develop profiles of the outcomes of technical processes at the pottery shop. These characteristics then provide insight into various key research topics in archaeology, including pottery systematics, life-expectancy and depositional time lag, experimental archaeology, and the...


Physics and archaeology. (1961)
DOCUMENT Citation Only M J Aitken.

This resource is a citation record only, the Center for Digital Antiquity does not have a copy of this document. The information in this record has been migrated into tDAR from the EXARC Bibliography, originally compiled by Roeland Paardekooper, and updated. Most of these records consist of a document citation and other metadata but do not have the documents themselves uploaded. If you have a digital copy of the document and would like to have it curated in tDAR, please contact us using the...


The Pine Lawn-Reserve Area Archaeological Project: Results and Prospects (2015)
DOCUMENT Citation Only Stephen Nash. Michele Koons.

Between 1939 and 1955, Paul Sidney Martin and John Rinaldo of the Field Museum excavated or tested more than 30 archaeological sites in the Pine Lawn/Reserve region of New Mexico. Researchers from the Denver Museum of Nature & Science, the United States Forest Service, and elsewhere have since 2010 been working to re-locate and record those sites, many of which were never properly registered with state and federal authorities. This paper shares results of that research as well as exploratory...


Pottery in the colonies: the silent marker revisited (2013)
DOCUMENT Citation Only Javier Iñañez. Marisol Madrid i Fernandez. Jaume Buxeda i Garrigos.

The contact between the European and the Native American worlds was the beginning of a period of conquest and colonization that disrupted the tradition of the native populations, giving pass to a new political, economical, religious, and town-planning period. While the first European foundations were just survival driven ones, they became a strategic foundation in order to develop a proper colonial enterprise. The European culture arrival into the Americas brought also a new material culture...


Preliminary Compositional Analysis of Raw Clays and Ceramic Pastes from the Callejón de Huaylas, Highland Ancash, Peru (ca. 200-800 CE) (2017)
DOCUMENT Citation Only M. Elizabeth Grávalos. Rebecca E. Bria.

Located in north-central Peru, the highland Ancash region sits at an important geographic and scholarly intersection. Despite its position as a main thoroughfare between the northern and southern sierra, it is often neglected during discussions of the increased interregional interaction of the Middle Horizon (ca. 700-1000 CE). This period is characterized by the expansion of the Wari state out of the south highlands. There remains much to be known about the Middle Horizon in highland Ancash,...


Progetto: "I materiali vetrosi nella protostoria dell'Italia del nord". Archeologia, archeometria, etnoarcheologia e approccio sperimentale (2003)
DOCUMENT Citation Only Paolo Bellintani. Mauro Cesaretto. Giovanna Residori.

This resource is a citation record only, the Center for Digital Antiquity does not have a copy of this document. The information in this record has been migrated into tDAR from the EXARC Bibliography, originally compiled by Roeland Paardekooper, and updated. Most of these records consist of a document citation and other metadata but do not have the documents themselves uploaded. If you have a digital copy of the document and would like to have it curated in tDAR, please contact us using the...


Proto-Tarascan Uacusecha Metallurgy: Issues about tecnological transition and lost techniques (2017)
DOCUMENT Citation Only Isabel Medina-González. Manuel Espinosa-Pesqueira. Gregory Pereira.

Within the large and rich vein of archaeological studies on Western Mesoamerican metallurgy (ca. 800-1500 a.C.), a large body of literature is devoted to the metal production of the Tarasco Kingdom (1420-1522 a.C.), since by 1450 a.C. this became the most important centre of Pre-Columbian metalworking. Indeed many scientific studies have focused on the material and the technological aspects of Tarascan metal artefacts, particularly of copper and copper alloy bells. In comparison, little in known...


Reducing Human Error and Identifying Unknowns: X-ray Fluorescence as a Tool for Identifying Paint Composition of Mesa Black-on-White Pottery (2015)
DOCUMENT Citation Only Victoria Sluka. Chase M. Anderson. Donna M. Glowacki. Edward J. Stech.

Although Mesa Verde Black-on-white pottery paste and temper have been well-studied, the composition of the decorative black paints and white background slips to identify available resources and the varying recipes used across time and space has received much less attention. Paints are typically categorized as either coal-based (organic) or iron-based (mineral), and archaeologists have long used visual differences to identify these two paint bases. While it has been shown that even novices can...


The Rein Basin Chert Mine, Styria, Austria: A Neolithic Center for Tabular Chert Quarrying (2018)
DOCUMENT Citation Only Michael Brandl. Daniel Modl.

Since 2009, the Neolithic chert quarrying site in the Rein Basin in Styria (Austria) has been the focus of a multidisciplinary research project. A mining area for tabular chert, approximately 10 hectares in size, was established at this locale in the course of a series of archaeological excavations, core soundings and a geophysical prospection. At Rein, tabular chert occurs in residual loams and mined in up to four meter deep shafts. According to this evidence, the site is only the second...


Revealing Pre-Columbian Bundles: Collaborative Student-Faculty Research at the Logan Museum of Anthropology, Beloit College (2016)
DOCUMENT Citation Only Kylie Quave.

Recent research at the Logan Museum of Anthropology combines student and faculty expertise with archaeometric methods to reveal new information about coastal pre-Columbian Andean collections brought to the museum in the early- to mid-twentieth century. With student collaborators we scanned a possible “bird mummy” with computed tomography to reveal that there was no avian body but rather a complex suite of offerings within its cloth wrapping. They included maize cobs, shell, and other materials....


Review of: Muhr, T. 1997. ATLAS.ti 5: The Knowledge Workbench. Berlin: Scientific Software Development (2003)
DOCUMENT Citation Only Steve Townend.

This resource is a citation record only, the Center for Digital Antiquity does not have a copy of this document. The information in this record has been migrated into tDAR from the EXARC Bibliography, originally compiled by Roeland Paardekooper, and updated. Most of these records consist of a document citation and other metadata but do not have the documents themselves uploaded. If you have a digital copy of the document and would like to have it curated in tDAR, please contact us using the...


Stable Isotope Sourcing of Olivella Shell Beads from Central California (2015)
DOCUMENT Citation Only Gregory Burns. Jelmer Eerkens.

Although a temporally diagnostic type artifact, the pre-contact cultural role of Olivella beads is poorly understood for Central California and the San Francisco Bay Area. While important as an item of trade and burial wealth, the nature of Olivella bead origin and conveyance is uncertain. Stable isotope sourcing, using oxygen and carbon from serial sampling shell carbonate, provides a potential to locate where shell was collected for bead production. We document developments in a technique for...


Style and Substance in the Inca Imperial Capital: A Preliminary Archaeometric and Attribute Analysis of Ceramics, Materiality, and Aesthetics in Ancient Cusco (2016)
DOCUMENT Citation Only Shannon Mascarenhas. Steve Kosiba.

Archaeologists have long examined how ancient empires and states developed a standard aesthetic and material culture—a set of styles and iconographic designs meant to express their claims to regional authority. In contrast, this paper moves beyond style designations and iconographic interpretations, which often draw on texts to make claims about representations of myths and political personages, to instead understand the materials and technological sequences that constituted a regional aesthetic...


The Technology and Trade of Glass in SE Europe: Analysis of 12th-9th c. BC beads from Lofkënd and Methone (2015)
DOCUMENT Citation Only Vanessa Muros. Nikos Zacharias. William Shelley. Ioanna Kakoulli.

The archaeometric study of glass provides not only an understanding about the technology and manufacture of this material, but can also shed light on aspects of ancient societies such as trade, craft specialization, and cultural connections. The research presented looks to answer questions about glass production and trade in southeastern Europe during the LBA and EIA through the analysis of glass and faience beads from the sites of Lofkënd (southwest Albania) and Methone (northern Greece). This...