Element content of the samples of medieval ceramics from Southern Kazakhstan: searching the way of preliminary differentiation
Silachyov I. Akymbek Y.
September 2023Springer Science and Business Media B.V.
Journal of Radioanalytical and Nuclear Chemistry
2023#332Issue 93799 - 3811 pp.
Thirty samples of the unglazed ceramics selected from a range of medieval sites within the Shu-Talas interfluve, Southern Kazakhstan, were used in the methodical study aimed to reveal “a chemical fingerprint” enabling preliminary differentiation of the restricted quantity of wares. Ratios of the rare earth element (REE) contents in the samples including light to heavy REE fractionation and the values of Eu and Ce anomalies were found the most promising to solve the task. To verify the assumptions binary scatterplots, factor and cluster analysis were applied to the contents of some major, minor and trace elements determined by X-ray fluorescence and neutron activation analysis. The first results were obtained relating the places of pottery burial to the production sites accounting for ware transfer for sale or other.
Elemental analysis , Medieval ceramics , Provenance study , Southern Kazakhstan
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Institute of Nuclear Physics, Ibragimov Str.1, Almaty, 050032, Kazakhstan
Margulan Institute of Archaeology, Dostyk Ave.44, Almaty, 050000, Kazakhstan
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Margulan Institute of Archaeology
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