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Characterization of an Early Bronze Age pottery group from the upper T igris valley ( T urkey) by means of spectroscopic and microscopic techniques
Author(s) -
Bayazit Murat,
Kozbe Gülriz
Publication year - 2019
Publication title -
x‐ray spectrometry
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.447
H-Index - 45
eISSN - 1097-4539
pISSN - 0049-8246
DOI - 10.1002/xrs.3036
Subject(s) - pottery , bronze age , energy dispersive x ray spectroscopy , scanning electron microscope , calcareous , mineralogy , spectroscopy , geology , chemistry , materials science , archaeology , composite material , geography , physics , paleontology , quantum mechanics
In this archaeometric research potsherds from Kavuşan Höyük (a mound located in the upper Tigris valley) representing the Metallic Ware, a diagnostic ceramic group mostly found in north Mesopotamia was characterized using spectroscopic and microscopic techniques in order to differ the imitated ones, if exist, to reveal the production technologies and compare the results with the previous archaeometric works concerning Metallic Ware. For this purpose, optical microscopy, scanning electron microscopy equipped with energy dispersive spectroscopy, polarized energy dispersive X‐ray fluorescence, X‐ray diffraction, and micro‐Raman spectroscopy were used. Two groups were specified as the calcareous “imitations” and the dominant noncalcareous ware as the real ones. The results suggested that the noncalcareous ware of Kavuşan was presumably not produced with the possible clay deposits mentioned in previous studies, which focused on the provenance investigation of a wide range of Metallic Ware samples from the upper Tigris valley. It was also concluded from the results that the calcareous imitations would presumably belong to a local (in the name of Kavuşan) or regional (the upper Tigris) production due to the geological and chemical affinities.