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Title: | G-Factor, a Suitable Tool for Characterization of Ancient Ceramics: Application to Monitoring Amphorae Phase Transformations in Firing |
Author: | Compana, J. M. Cabeza, A. Macias, J. Aranda, M. A. G. Leon-Reina, L. |
Keywords: | EXTERNAL STANDARD METHOD AMORPHOUS CONTENT RAW-MATERIALS POTTERY CLAY QUANTIFICATION TEMPERATURE STONEWARE PORCELAIN HYDRATION |
Issue Date: | 2015 |
Publisher: | WILEY-BLACKWELL |
Abstract: | The thick Pliocene clay beds located along the mouth of the Guadalhorce River in Malaga were used in the Roman era for amphorae production related to the ever-growing production of garum and salted fish. As a first step in their archaeometric characterization, a series of firing tests on the potential raw material have been carried out. The main aim of this work is to obtain a suitable tool for estimating the firing temperatures of those amphorae, as well as to make a comprehensive evaluation of the potential of an innovative external-standard method for measuring the amorphous content of a pottery sample, the G-factor method. The obtained results emphasize a highly amorphous content, over 50 wt% in some samples, which varies with the firing temperature. This shows the potential of this technique, which allows straightforward fully quantitative mineralogical analysis and a mineralogical comparison even between samples fired at very different temperatures. |
Peer review: | yes |
URI: | http://hdl.handle.net/10773/20346 |
DOI: | 10.1111/arcm.12107 |
ISSN: | 0003-813X |
Publisher Version: | 10.1111/arcm.12107 |
Appears in Collections: | CICECO - Artigos |
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