The Use of a Bench-top SEM in Ceramic Characterization in Oceania

Author(s): Peter Sheppard

Year: 2015

Summary

Thanks to the efforts of Bill Dickinson petrographic analysis of ceramic thin sections has been able to make an almost unparalleled contribution to sourcing studies in Oceania. In this paper I will report on use of one of the new generation desktop SEMs which will help us continue and build on Bill’s work. Examples will be drawn from studies of Lapita period ceramic assemblages in the Solomon Islands.

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The Use of a Bench-top SEM in Ceramic Characterization in Oceania. Peter Sheppard. Presented at The 80th Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology, San Francisco, California. 2015 ( tDAR id: 395145)

Keywords

General
Ceramics SEM Sourcing

Geographic Keywords
Oceania

Spatial Coverage

min long: 111.973; min lat: -52.052 ; max long: -87.715; max lat: 53.331 ;