Sourcing ceramics with portable XRF spectrometers? A comparison with INAA using Mimbres pottery from the American Southwest

Journal of Archaeological Science

Volumn 38, Issue 12, 2011, Pages 3483-3496

  Speakman, Robert J ^a   Little, Nicole C ^a   Creel, Darrell ^b   Miller, Myles R ^c   Iñañez, Javier G ^a,d  

^a MUSEUM CONSERVATION INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

^c Geo Marine Inc   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF BARCELONA   (Spain)

Author keywords

INAA; Mimbres and Jornada pottery; Portable and handheld XRF; XRF

Indexed keywords

ARCHAEOLOGY; CERAMICS; NEUTRON ACTIVATION ANALYSIS; SPECTROMETER;

EID: 80054102409     PISSN: 03054403     EISSN: 10959238     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jas.2011.08.011     Document Type: Article

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