Chemical fingerprinting using major or trace element composition is used to characterize the
Mediterranean island sources of obsidian and can even differentiate as many as nine flows …

As I have discussed in the last chapter, our goal here is not to elucidate XRF for the entire
scientific community–this has been done admirably by others–but to translate the physics …

The term archaeomineralogy is relatively new. It was used by Mitchell (1985) for a brief
bibliography, by Rapp (2002, 2009) for books, and by Kostov et al.(2008) and Rapp (2008) …

The chemical study of archaeological materials Archaeological Chemistry, Second Edition is
about the application of the chemical sciences to the study of ancient man and his material …

Chemical sourcing is becoming an increasingly important component of archaeological
investigation. Instruments used for elemental analysis generally must be operated in a …

Ancient economies have been characterized by many researchers as localized, highly
controlled by political actors, and static over long periods of time. In Mesoamerica, recent …

The characterization of archaeological materials to support provenance research has grown
rapidly over the past few decades. Volcanic obsidian has several unique properties that …

Recent innovations in portable energy-dispersive X-ray fluorescence (PXRF) spectrometry
have increased its utility for the geochemical characterization of obsidian artifacts for …

В книге изложены основы геоархеологии–междисциплинарного направления на стыке
археологии и естественных наук. Представлены базовые знания по геоморфологии …

Obsidian artifacts recently have been recovered from 18 archaeological sites on eight
islands across the Kuril Island archipelago in the North Pacific Ocean, suggesting a wide …