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Evaluating the Variability of Southwestern Ceramics with X-ray Fluorescence

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  06 March 2019

Patricia L. Crown ,
L. A. Schwalbe  and
J. R. London
Patricia L. Crown
Affiliation:
Arizona State Museum University of Arizona Tucson, AZ 85721
L. A. Schwalbe
Affiliation:
Los Alamos National Laboratory P.O. Box 1663, Mail Stop C914 Los Alamos, NM 87545
J. R. London
Affiliation:
Los Alamos National Laboratory P.O. Box 1663, Mail Stop C914 Los Alamos, NM 87545
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For the period after about 100 B.C., the Southwest has been broadly divided into four culturally distinct regions: the Anasazi, Mogollon, Hohokara, and prehistoric Yuman culture areas. Definition and identification of these areas has been based largely on extant material culture, particularly pottery and house-types. Pottery is especially important in archaeological investigations because it is unquestionably man-made and it is virtually indestructible in the dry Southwestern climate. The pottery produced by the inhabitants of the Southwest is also highly variable through time and across space, so that over 900 distinct ceramic types have been defined for Southwestern culture groups. And since potters tended to use materials available in the vicinity of their villages, materials analysis of plastic and nonplastic constituents of ceramics can aid in evaluating where pottery was made.

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V. Applications of XRF and XRD to Life Sciences and the Environment
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Advances in X-Ray Analysis , Volume 28: Thirty-Third Annual Conference on Applications of X-ray Analysis, July 30 - August 3, 1984 , 1984 , pp. 169 - 176
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Copyright © International Centre for Diffraction Data 1984

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