Hostname: page-component-586b7cd67f-2brh9 Total loading time: 0 Render date: 2024-11-26T15:27:56.587Z Has data issue: false hasContentIssue false

Quantitative Analysis of Obsidian and Determination of Source Provenance Using an Analytical Dual Beam SEM

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  30 July 2021

Edward Vicenzi
Affiliation:
Smithsonian Institution, Museum Conservation Institute, Suitland, Maryland, United States
Meredith Sharps
Affiliation:
Rochester Institute of Technology, Image Permanence Institute, United States
Thomas Lam
Affiliation:
Smithsonian Institution, Museum Conservation Institute, Suitland, Maryland, United States

Abstract

Image of the first page of this content. For PDF version, please use the ‘Save PDF’ preceeding this image.'
Type
Portable- and Laboratory-based Approaches to Analysis in Cultural Heritage
Copyright
Copyright © The Author(s), 2021. Published by Cambridge University Press on behalf of the Microscopy Society of America

References

Brooks, A.S., et al. , Long-distance stone transport and pigment use in the earliest Middle Stone Age. Science, 2018. 360(6384): p. 90-94.CrossRefGoogle ScholarPubMed
Jackson, T.L. and Ericson, J.E., Prehistoric exchange systems in California, in Prehistoric exchange systems in North America. 1994, Springer. p. 385-415.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Deter-Wolf, A., et al. , The world's oldest tattoos. Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports, 2016. 5: p. 19-24.Google Scholar
Dibble, H.L. and Rezek, Z., Introducing a new experimental design for controlled studies of flake formation: results for exterior platform angle, platform depth, angle of blow, velocity, and force. Journal of Archaeological Science, 2009. 36(9): p. 1945-1954.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Disa, J.J., Vossoughi, J., and Goldberg, N.H., A comparison of obsidian and surgical steel scalpel wound healing in rats. Plastic and reconstructive surgery, 1993. 92(5): p. 884-887.CrossRefGoogle ScholarPubMed
Glascock, M.D., Comparison and contrast between XRF and NAA: used for characterization of obsidian sources in Central Mexico, in X-ray fluorescence spectrometry (XRF) in geoarchaeology. 2011, Springer. p. 161-192.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Sharps, M.C., et al. , A dual beam SEM-based EDS and micro-XRF method for the analysis of large-scale Mesoamerican obsidian tablets. Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports, 2021. 35: p. 102781.Google Scholar
Jarosewich, E., Nelen, J., and Norberg, J.A., Reference samples for electron microprobe analysis. Geostandards Newsletter, 1980. 4(1): p. 43-47.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Haschke, M. and Boehm, S., Micro-XRF in Scanning Electron Microscopes, in Advances in Imaging and Electron Physics. 2017, Elsevier. p. 1-60.Google Scholar
Ritchie, N.W., Spectrum simulation in DTSA-II. Microscopy and Microanalysis, 2009. 15(5): p. 454.CrossRefGoogle ScholarPubMed
Haschke, M., Laboratory micro-X-ray fluorescence spectroscopy. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2014. 10: p. 978-983.Google Scholar
Wolff, T. Information Depth - XRF Check. 2020; Available from: https://xrfcheck.bruker.com/InfoDeptGoogle Scholar