The term archaeomineralogy is relatively new. It was used by Mitchell (1985) for a brief
bibliography, by Rapp (2002, 2009) for books, and by Kostov et al.(2008) and Rapp (2008) …

Many uncertainties and doubts often arise when students, researchers and professionals of
archaeology start the study of the huge amount of ceramic sherds collected in …

The issue of clay processing concerns both provenance and techno-functional ceramic
investigations. In the former, the compositional/textural modification of clay alters the …

Provenance studies of archaeological ceramics by analysis of their elemental composition
are based on the assumption that clays can be distinguished, which were used for pottery …

Analytical techniques developed in the field of materials science are now widely applied to
objects of art and archaeology to gain information about the material composition and …

A wide range of existing mineralogical and geochemical methodologies such as optical
microscopy, X-ray diffraction, manual scanning electron microscopy, ICP-MS and INAA have …

In this paper, we discuss approaches to prepare solid samples for X‐ray fluorescence
spectrometry (XRF). Although XRF can be used to analyze major and minor elements in …

Ethnographic and historical accounts have indicated that traditional potters intentionally mix
two or more sources of clay in order to prepare composite pastes for pottery production. It …

Ceramics provenance studies based on minor and trace elements are widely used to help in
gathering knowledge of local furnace presence and commercial trades. Most of the times …

It is well known that mineralogical, petrographic and chemical analyses can successfully
support provenance studies of archaeological ceramics. The characterisation of a ceramic …