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Determining the provenance of Cayo Pottery from Grenada, Lesser Antilles, using portable X-Ray fluorescence spectrometry

Determining the provenance of Cayo Pottery from Grenada, Lesser Antilles, using portable X-Ray fluorescence spectrometry

Scott, R. B. ORCID: 0000-0001-9963-3972, Neyt, B., Hofman, C. and Degryse, P. (2018) Determining the provenance of Cayo Pottery from Grenada, Lesser Antilles, using portable X-Ray fluorescence spectrometry. Archaeometry, 60 (5). pp. 966-985. ISSN 0003-813X (Print), 1475-4754 (Online) (doi:https://doi.org/10.1111/arcm.12359)

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Abstract

Portable XRF was used to analyse the chemical composition of 52 indigenous Cayo ceramics from excavations and from private collections on Grenada, Lesser Antilles. Initially, a comparative baseline of data representing three different islands (Grenada, St Vincent and Trinidad) was created by analysing with pXRF ceramic material that had previously been analysed both chemically and petrographically. The field data, when compared to the laboratory baseline data, indicated that the majority of the ceramics were made with clay local to Grenada. Four samples were potentially made with clay from another, as yet unidentified, source.

Item Type: Article
Uncontrolled Keywords: pXRF, cayo pottery, lesser antilles, petrography, koriabo
Subjects: Q Science > Q Science (General)
Faculty / School / Research Centre / Research Group: Faculty of Engineering & Science
Faculty of Engineering & Science > School of Science (SCI)
Last Modified: 03 Aug 2020 22:31
URI: http://gala.gre.ac.uk/id/eprint/28937

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