Identification of archaeological potsherds excavated at Mleiha using XRF

Artificial Neural Networks To Distinguish Charcoal from Eucalyptus and Native Forests Based on Their Mineral Components

“…XRF spectroscopy has been successfully applied in various fields of science that require rapid analytical routines such as agriculture (Freitas et al 2019), soil science (Pelegrino et al 2019), mining (Penido et al 2019, environmental sciences (Muthukalum et al 2020) and chemical (Szczepanik et al, 2015) and archeological studies (Attaelmanan and Mouton 2014).…”

“…13 Because of that, XRF spectroscopy has been successfully applied in various fields of science that require rapid analytical routines such as agriculture, 14 soil science, 15 mining, 16 and environmental sciences, 17 as well as chemical 18 and archeological studies. 19 Faced with the challenge of differentiating charcoal produced from planted or native wood, the hypothesis of this study is that the mineral composition of charcoal varies according to whether trees have grown in native or planted forest. While native plants rely on the natural composition of their environment to grow, soils of forest plantations are managed for production of wood for pulp or bioenergy industries in such a way that mineral contents are adjusted before planting, which affects the mineral composition of the plant.…”

“…This technique is versatile and does not require exhaustive preparation of the material to be analyzed . Because of that, XRF spectroscopy has been successfully applied in various fields of science that require rapid analytical routines such as agriculture, soil science, mining, and environmental sciences, as well as chemical and archeological studies …”

Application of radioisotope XRF and thermoluminescence (TL) dating in investigation of pottery from Tell AL-Kasra archaeological site, Syria

“…A lot of analytical methods are widely applied nowadays for classifying the origin of archaeological pottery based on their chemical composition, among them particle induced X-ray emission (PIXE) and X-ray fluorescence analysis (Bakraji et al, 2011;Centeno et al, 2012;Roumie et al, 2010;Padilla et al, 2006;Attaelmanan and Mouton, 2014) and neutron activation analysis (NAA) (Sayre Edwared and Dodson, 1957;Bakraji, 2005;Dasari et al, 2013;Vaughn et al, 2006), as these methods permit the determination of multi-elements simultaneously with high sensitivity, accuracy and precision. The statistical treatment of the elemental concentration helps to determine similarities and correlations between the analyzed pottery fragments, and then classify the pottery sherds into groups.…”

Identification of mineral inclusions in archaeological ceramics using microbeam X‐ray fluorescence spectrometry

“…[1][2][3][4][5][6] Usually, non-destructive techniques are preferred in order to preserve the artefact's integrity, but in cases where provenance is of concern, semi-destructive techniques such as X-ray fluorescence (XRF), X-ray diffraction (XRD), and petrography are utilised. For example, when performing quantitative elemental analysis of ceramic sherds, XRF analysis is performed on powder samples made by crushing and then milling pieces of the sherds in question, into fine homogenous powders, [7] pressed into pellets [8] or fused into glass beads. [9] Petrography on the other hand requires that thin sections of the sherds are prepared before mounting them on glass slides ready for optical microscopy.…”