Beyond military conquest, the successful consolidation of Tawantinsuyu likely depended on
the exercise of soft power and ideological cooptation. The widespread distribution of Inca …

The k0 method is a highly successful standardization method developed for Neutron
Activation Analysis (NAA), later also introduced in Prompt Gamma Activation Analysis …

A large assemblage of Byzantine glazed pottery from ancient Corinth, Greece was analysed
by a multi-technique analytical approach in order to determine the production technology …

A signature element of the Inca Empire is the highly standardized assemblage of ceramic
vessels found across the length and breadth of the imperial realm. The question of how such …

This article examines the history of the application of archaeological science in studies of
pre‐Hispanic pottery from the Andes, South America, through academic publications from …

Abstract In Central Western Argentina (CWA), the Provincial Inca pottery has been the most
ubiquitous indicator of Inca influence and expansionism during the fifteenth–sixteenth …

A few scattered vessels, typologically attributed to the Gáta–Wieselburg culture, are known
from the Friuli Venezia Giulia region in northeastern Italy. This culture spread during the …

Prompt-gamma activation analysis (PGAA) proved to be a very effective non-invasive tool in
Heritage Science, applicable to study the bulk-representative elemental composition of a …

This paper reports the chemical composition of 36 glass finds from Histria, Romania, mainly
dated to the Late Antique period (4th–6th c. AD) obtained by Prompt Gamma Activation …

Among the pottery of the Middle Uruk period (or Late Chalcolithic 4) in Syria-Mesopotamia
(3800–3450 BCE), it is perhaps the beveled rim bowls (BRBs) which are the most usually …