Petrographic Analysis Ceramics

Samples are ground to a thickness of 0 03 mm and mounted on a glass slide.

Petrographic analysis ceramics.

Ceramic petrography or ceramic petrology is a laboratory based scientific archaeological technique that examines the mineralogical and microstructural composition of ceramics and other inorganic materials under the polarised light microscope in order to interpret aspects of the provenance and technology of artefacts. 2016 114 petrographic analysis of a roman potteryvessel from cheeseman s green kent uk. Petrographic analysis is not new to the study of archaeological ceramics but it is receiving more attention as it is applied to interesting and diverse archaeological problems. Petrographic and geochemical analysis of pottery and other ceramics from roman pottery kilns at ashlawn road hillmorton warwickshire uk.

241 249. 1970 the scientific analysis of ancient ceramics. 2016 113 petrographic analysis of middle bronze age trevisker style sherds from queen camel somerset uk. Petrographic analysis of historic ceramics from suakin condenser island sudan.

Petrographic analysis of middle iron age ceramics from broadbridge heath west sussex uk. Petrographic analysis involves making a single 30 μm thick cross sectional slide of a material and viewing it through a petrographic microscope. Petrographic analysis of ceramics from the berbati valley ian k. Whitbread 145 for ease of reference the group and class descriptions be low are separated into two sections.

The first section is for the general reader and contains summaries of the key petro graphic characteristics of each class and discussion of the re sults. Plains anthropologist 26. Samples are analyzed using both plane and cross polarized transmitted light to identify mineral inclusions with a high degree of accuracy and to determine characteristics of the clay matrix such as its optical activity.