Thin Section Analysis Ceramics

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Thin section analysis ceramics.

Alternatively non cubic ceramics can be prepared as thin sections also known as petrography for examination by polarized transmitted light microscopy. Thin section archaeological petrography can be applied to a range of other artefact types in addition to ceramics. Archaeological ceramics analysis techniques include thin section petrography geochemistry scanning electron microscopy and organic residue analysis. Focusing in particular on ceramic petrography the module provides in depth practical training on the principles of this versatile geoarchaeological approach and its role in the interpretation of pottery provenance and manufacturing technology.

The course consists of lectures and laboratory classes which follow daily themes. Thin section petrography of stone and ceramic cultural materials by chandra reedy. The workshop will consist of a hands on short course on thin section petrographic analysis of archaeological ceramics together with hands on observation and testing of the structure optical microscopy chemical tests composition pxrf and properties of sherds and raw materials participants will gain skills in low cost but highly effective methods for identifying the mineralogical constituents of ceramic materials discerning variability in materials and relating that variability to. Thin section analysis can be carried out on ceramic assemblages in order to answer a variety of questions from the characterization or provenancing of a single ware or pottery type to a diachronic study of the ceramic material from an entire site or region.

In this technique the specimen is sawed to 1 mm thick glued to a microscope slide and ground or sawed e g by microtome to a thickness x approaching 30 µm. These include plaster mortar mudbricks and lithic implements. Isbn 978 1 9049 8233 3 london. Digital image analysis of ceramic thin section.