ANTH 003 Lecture Notes - Lecture 22: Neutron Activation Analysis, X-Ray Fluorescence, Petrography
29 Oct 2020
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Coiling: make a snake of clay and wind it up. Thin pot by scraping technique or paddle and anvil technique. Kiln firing: pots are separated from fuel. Open (bonfire) firing: vessels and fuel together. What they are made out of can help us see: Component (separate out different parts) or bulk (all of it in one) techniques. Instrumental neutron activation analysis (destructive and bulk) Icp-ms or la-icp-ms: (laser ablation) inductively coupled. Always new techniques on the horizon (pixe, etc. ) Chronology building through analysis of changes in form, shape, composition, and/or decoration. Example: hohokam of se arizona (style and vessel form changes) Example: moche of peru (shape of stirrup spout) Functional analysis: how sites or areas of sites were used. Ethnographic evidence of specialized and non-specialized production not perfect. One idea (based on modern society) is to look at how standardized/uniform the products are. Many archaeologists have argued that standardized products = specialization.
