Ceramic Petrographic Thin Sections

Professional thin section petrographic and geochemical analysis of archaeological pottery cbm metallurgical ceramics building stone plaster and lithics for the interpretation of provenance and craft technology.

Ceramic petrographic thin sections. Standard 27x46mm large 3 x2 thin sections. Studies focusing on the provenance and manufacturing technology of these types of artefacts rely on the identification of characteristic petrographic. Data from the thin section petrographic analysis of archaeological pottery and other ceramic materials such as brick tile daub and clay pipes is not well represented in the published literature. Samples are ground to a thickness of 0 03 mm and mounted on a glass slide.

A cover slip is glued onto the exposed surface. Ceramic thin section petrography petrology archaeology mineralogy. Fundamentally petrography employs techniques borrowed from geology to examine ancient pottery to identify the materials used to manufacture the ceramic objects. Grain mount thin section with red or blue epoxy.

2013 archaeopress oxford 260 pp color isbn 978 1 905 73959 2 35 paperback. Ceramic petrography or ceramic petrology is a laboratory based scientific archaeological technique that examines the mineralogical and microstructural composition of ceramics and other inorganic materials under the polarised light microscope in order to interpret aspects of the provenance and technology of artefacts. Mary ownby with the petrographic microscope that is specifically designed to examine rock and pottery thin sections. Ceramic petrography analytical service professional thin section petrographic and geochemical analysis of archaeological pottery cbm metallurgical ceramics building stone plaster and lithics for the interpretation of provenance and craft technology.

Grain mount thin section. The interpretation of archaeological pottery and related artefacts in thin section. Ceramic petrography analytical service. The interpretation of archaeological pottery related artefacts in thin section.