Archaeometry at OSU’s Radiation Center

   Useful readings in INAA and Archaeometry:

INAA and Gamma-Ray Spectrometry

Gilmore, G. and J. Hemingway

                 1995        Practical Gamma-Ray Spectrometry.  John Wiley and Sons, New York.

 

Knoll, G.F.

                 1989        Radiation Detection and Measurement (2nd ed.).  John Wiley and Sons, New York.

 

Kruger, P.

                 1971        Principles of Activation Analysis.  John Wiley and Sons, New York.

 

Muecke, G.K (Ed.)

                 1980        Short Course in Neutron Activation Analysis in the Geosciences. Mineralogical Association of Canada, Halifax.

 

Potts, P.J.

                 1984        Neutron Activation Analysis.  Chapter 12, In A Handbook of Silicate Rock Analysis, pp.  399-439.  Chapman and Hall, New York.

 

INAA in Archaeometry

Harbottle, G.

                 1982        Chemical characterization in archaeology.  In Contexts for Prehistoric Exchange, edited by J.E. Ericson and T.K. Earle, pp. 13-51.  Academic Press, New York. 

 

Glascock, M.

                 1992        Neutron activation analysis, in H. Neff (ed.), Chemical Characterization of

                                  Ceramic Pastes in Archaeology: 11-26. Madison (WI): Prehistory Press.

 

Glascock, M.& H. Neff.

2003.       Neutron activation analysis and provenance research in archaeology,  Measurement Science and Technology 14: 1516-1526.

 

Neff, H., and M.D. Glascock

1995        The state of nuclear archaeology in North America.  Journal of Radioanalytical and Nuclear Chemistry 196: 275-285.

 

Lithic studies:

Glascock, Michael D.

                 2002        Geochemical Evidence of Long-Distance Exchange.  Bergin & Garvey,

                                  Westport, CT. 

 

Glascock, M.D., G.E. Braswell, and R.H. Cobean

1997        A systematic approach to obsidian source characterization.  In Archaeological Obsidian Studies: Method and Theory, edited by M.S. Shackley.  Advances in Archaeological and Museum Sciences 3.  Plenum Publishing Company, New York.

 

Hughes, R.E. and R.L. Smith

1993        Archaeology, geology, and geochemistry in obsidian provenance studies.  In Effects of Scale on Archaeological and Geoscientific Perspectives, edited by J.K. Stein and A.R. Linse, pp. 79-91.  Geo. Society of America Special Paper 283, Boulder, CO. 

 

King, A. and J.W. Hatch

1997        The chemical composition of jasper artefacts from New England and the Middle Atlantic: Implications for the prehistoric exchange of “Pennsylvania Jasper”.  Journal of Archaeological Science 24:793-812.

 

Malyk-Selivanova, N., G.M. Ashley, R. Gal, M.D. Glascock & H. Neff

1998        Geological-geochemical approach to "sourcing" of prehistoric chert artifacts, Brooks Range, Northwest Alaska. Geoarchaeology 13(7):673-708.

 

Ceramic studies:

Arnold, Dean E., and A. Nieves

1992        Factors affecting ceramic standardization.  In Ceramic Production and Distribution: An Integrated Approach (ed. by G. Bey & C. Pool), pp. 93-113.  Westview, CO.

 

Arnold, Dean E., Hector Neff, and Ronald L. Bishop

1991        Compositional analysis and “sources” of pottery: an ethnoarchaeological approach.  American Anthropologist 93:70-90.

 

Bishop, R.L, and M. J. Blackman

2002        Instrumental Neutron Activation Analysis of Archaeological Ceramics: Scale and Interpretation.  Accounts of Chemical Research 35:603-610.

 

Blackman, M.J., G.J. Stein, and P.B. Vandiver

1993        The standardization hypothesis and ceramic mass production: Technological, compositional, and metric indexes of craft specialization at Tell Leilan, Syria.  American Antiquity 58:60-80.

 

Blackman, M.J.

1992        The effect of natural and human size sorting on the mineralogy and chemistry of ceramic clays.  In Chemical Characterization of Ceramic Pastes in Archaeology (edited by. H. Neff), pp. 113-124.   Prehistory Press, Madison.

 

Carpenter, A. J. and G.M. Feinman

1999        The effects of behavior on ceramic composition: implications for the definition of production locations.  Journal of Archaeological Science 26: 783-796.

 

Cogswell, J., H. Neff, and M.D. Glascock

1996        The effect of firing temperature on the elemental characterization of pottery.  Journal of Archaeological Science  23: 283-287.

 

Garrigós, J.B. i

1999        Alteration and contamination of archaeological ceramics: the perturbation problem.  Journal of Archaeological Science 26: 295-313.

 

Kilikoglou, V., Y. Maniatis, and A.P. Grimanis

1988        The effect of purification and firing of clays on trace element provenance studies. Archaeometry 30: 37-46.

 

Neff, H. (Ed.)

1992 Chemical Characterization of Ceramic Pastes in Archaeology. Prehistory Press, Madison.

 

Neff, H., R. L. Bishop, E. V. Sayre

1988        A simulation approach to the problem of tempering in compositional studies of archaeological ceramics.  Journal of Archaeological Science 15:159-172.

 

1989 More observations on the problem of tempering in compositional studies of archaeological ceramics.  Journal of Archaeological Science 16:57-69.

 

Rice, P.M.

1982        Pottery production, pottery classification, and the role of physiochemical analyses.  In Archaeological Ceramics (edited by J. S. Olin and A. D. Franklin), pp. 47-56.  Smithsonian Institution Press, Washington, D.C.