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Lead in the Bones of Prehistoric Lead-glaze Potters

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 January 2017

Saul Jarcho
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Abstract

In 1932 Haury described lead-glaze pottery from the Southwest. In view of his report, it appeared desirable to find out whether the makers of such pottery suffered from lead poisoning. A series of 46 bone specimens from Kinishba, where lead-glaze pottery was made, and a control series of 33 specimens from Point of Pines, where such pottery is not known to have been made, were screened by X-ray and by X-ray diffraction. The 11 most promising specimens were then analyzed by atomic absorption spectrophotometry. Lead was found in quantities believed to be below the toxic range; concentrations in the control series from Point of Pines were, with few exceptions, higher than in the experimental series from Kinishba.

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American Antiquity , Volume 30 , Issue 1 , July 1964 , pp. 94 - 96
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Copyright © The Society for American Archaeology 1964

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