Issue 4, 2002
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Analyst

Standardisation of elemental analytical techniques applied to provenance studies of archaeological ceramics: an inter laboratory calibration study†

A. Hein,*a   A. Tsolakidou,‡b   I. Iliopoulos,c   H. Mommsen,d   J. Buxeda i Garrigós,b   G. Montanac  and  V. Kilikogloua  

* Corresponding authors

a Laboratory of Archaeometry, NCSR ‘Demokritos’, Aghia Paraskevi, 15310 Attiki, Greece
E-mail: hein@ims.demokritos.gr

b Equip de Recerca Arqueomètrica de la Universitat de Barcelona, Dept. de Prehistòria, Història Antiga i Arqueologia, University of Barcelona, C/de Baldiri i Reixac s/n, Catalonia, 08028 Barcelona, Spain

c Dipartimento di Chimica e Fisica della Terra ed Applicazioni alle Georisorse e ai Rischi Naturali, University of Palermo, Via Archirafi 36, 90123 Palermo, Sicily, Italy

d Institut für Strahlen- und Kernphysik, University of Bonn, Nussallee 14–16, 53115 Bonn, Germany

Abstract

Chemical analysis is a well-established procedure for the provenancing of archaeological ceramics. Various analytical techniques are routinely used and large amounts of data have been accumulated so far in data banks. However, in order to exchange results obtained by different laboratories, the respective analytical procedures need to be tested in terms of their inter-comparability. In this study, the schemes of analysis used in four laboratories that are involved in archaeological pottery studies on a routine basis were compared. The techniques investigated were neutron activation analysis (NAA), X-ray fluorescence analysis (XRF), inductively coupled plasma optical emission spectrometry (ICP-OES) and inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometry (ICP-MS). For this comparison series of measurements on different geological standard reference materials (SRM) were carried out and the results were statistically evaluated. An attempt was also made towards the establishment of calibration factors between pairs of analytical setups in order to smooth the systematic differences among the results.

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DOI
https://doi.org/10.1039/B109603F
Article type
Paper
Submitted
22 Oct 2001
Accepted
21 Jan 2002
First published
22 Feb 2002

Analyst, 2002,127, 542-553

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Standardisation of elemental analytical techniques applied to provenance studies of archaeological ceramics: an inter laboratory calibration study

A. Hein, A. Tsolakidou, I. Iliopoulos, H. Mommsen, J. Buxeda i Garrigós, G. Montana and V. Kilikoglou, Analyst, 2002, 127, 542 DOI: 10.1039/B109603F

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