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COMMENT: CHEMICAL AND MINERALOGICAL APPROACHES TO CERAMIC PROVENANCE DETERMINATION
Author(s) -
NEFF H.
Publication year - 2012
Publication title -
archaeometry
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.716
H-Index - 67
eISSN - 1475-4754
pISSN - 0003-813X
DOI - 10.1111/j.1475-4754.2011.00621.x
Subject(s) - provenance , ceramic , perspective (graphical) , mineralogy , measure (data warehouse) , geology , archaeology , computer science , geochemistry , materials science , history , metallurgy , data mining , artificial intelligence
This comment concerns an ‘absolutist’ perspective on the superiority of mineralogical analysis over chemical analysis for the determination of ceramic provenance. This point of view has appeared in the literature in recent years, but it has not been justified and is not justifiable. Mineralogy and chemistry are complementary. They measure different things and are best used in combination to generate secure, geographically specific ceramic source assignments.