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New Article: Determining the Provenance of Cayo Pottery from Grenada, Lesser Antilles, using Portable X-Ray Fluorescence Spectrometry

Rebecca Scott, Bert Neyt, Corinne Hofman, and Patrick Degryse recently published a new article, entitled 'Determining the Provenance of Cayo Pottery from Grenada, Lesser Antilles, using Portable X-Ray Fluorescence Spectrometry' in Archaeometry. Read about it below!

Abstract

Portable XRF was used to analyse the chemical composition of 52 indigenous Cayo ceramics from excavations and from private collections on Grenada, Lesser Antilles. Initially, a comparative baseline of data representing three different islands (Grenada, St Vincent and Trinidad) was created by analysing with pXRF ceramic material that had previously been analysed both chemically and petrographically. The field data, when compared to the laboratory baseline data, indicated that the majority of the ceramics were made with clay local to Grenada. Four samples were potentially made with clay from another, as yet unidentified, source.

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