Contemporary soil, agronomic, and environmental investigations require high quality data
for the development of sound management decisions. For years, X-ray fluorescence (XRF) …

Syphilis was perceived to be a new disease in Europe in the late 15th century, igniting a
debate about its origin that continues today in anthropological, historical, and medical …

The Lower to Middle Paleolithic transition (~ 400,000 to 200,000 years ago) is marked by
technical, behavioral, and anatomical changes among hominin populations throughout …

The development of new technologies for use in field soil survey has produced powerful
new quantitative tools for assessing soil physicochemical properties in-situ. One such …

Uncritical application of portable X‐ray fluorescence (PXRF) to non‐destructive analysis of
archaeological ceramics has been received with scepticism. In this article, we present a …

Elemental analysis is a fundamental method of analysis on archaeological materials to
address their overall composition or identify the source of their geological components, yet …

The obsidian sources of central Anatolia, the Aegean and central Europe have been studied
in detail over the past 50 years. Various analytical techniques have been employed to …

Mobile instrumentation is of growing importance to archaeometry research. Equipment is
utilized in the field or at museums, thus avoiding transportation or risk of damage to valuable …

Handheld portable XRF (HHpXRF) has received considerable recent attention in
archaeology, especially for obsidian sourcing. Published studies largely suggest a high …

Integrating portable X-ray fluorescence (pXRF) instrumentation into archaeological
investigations has generated as much interest as skepticism because several characteristics …