Recent Advances in Laser Ablation ICP-MS for Archaeology
This book explores different aspects of LA-ICP-MS (laser ablation-inductively coupled plasma-mass spectrometry). It presents a large array of new analytical protocols for elemental or isotope analysis. LA-ICP-MS is a powerful tool that combines a sampling
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Laure Dussubieux Mark Golitko Bernard Gratuze Editors
Recent Advances in Laser Ablation ICP-MS for Archaeology
Natural Science in Archaeology
Series editors G€unther A. Wagner Christopher E. Miller Holger Schutkowski
More information about this series at http://www.springer.com/series/3703
Laure Dussubieux • Mark Golitko • Bernard Gratuze Editors
Recent Advances in Laser Ablation ICP-MS for Archaeology
Editors Laure Dussubieux Integrative Research Center, Elemental Analysis Facility Field Museum of Natural History Chicago, IL, USA
Mark Golitko Department of Anthropology University of Notre Dame Notre Dame, IN, USA
Bernard Gratuze Institut de Recherche sur les Arche´omate´riaux Centre Ernest Babelon CNRS/Universite´ d’Orle´ans Orle´ans, France
ISSN 1613-9712 Natural Science in Archaeology ISBN 978-3-662-49892-7 ISBN 978-3-662-49894-1 DOI 10.1007/978-3-662-49894-1
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Prologue
Since its inception as a modern discipline, archaeology has strived to produce more quantifiable data to test its theories on how human cultures change and transform. One particularly effective application for charting the transformation of objects of human ingenuity or of human beings themselves has been through the analysis of the chemical composition of material culture. I refer to both provenance studies that seek to identify the geological source material of artifacts or ecofacts and to chemical characterization studies focused on the alteration of a material through biological, environmental, or manufacturing processes. The former include obsidian sourcing, clay sourcing, metallic ore sourcing, or biological sourcing through isotopic signatures, for example. The latter include applications such as i
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