Open AccessElemental analysis of ancient potteries of Vellore Dist, Tamil Nadu, India by ED-XRF technique with statistical approach
Author(s) -
A. Naseerutheen,
A. Chandrasekaran,
A. Rajalakshmi,
R. Ravisankar
Publication year - 2014
Publication title -
beni-seuf university journal of basic and applied sciences /beni-suef university journal of basic and applied sciences
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2314-8543
pISSN - 2314-8535
DOI - 10.1016/j.bjbas.2014.02.006
Subject(s) - tamil , pottery , principal component analysis , elemental analysis , archaeology , statistical analysis , mineralogy , geography , mathematics , geology , statistics , chemistry , art , literature , organic chemistry
In the analysis of archaeological pottery, Energy Dispersive X-ray florescence analysis has been utilized to establish the elemental concentrations up to fourteen chemical elements for each of 14 archaeological pottery samples from Vellore Dist, Tamil Nadu, India. The EDXRF results have been processed using two multivariate statistical cluster and principal component analysis (PCA) methods in order to determine the similarities and correlation between the selected samples based on their elemental composition. The methodology successfully separates the samples where two distinct chemical groups were discerned