TY - JOUR
T1 - Neutron activation analysis in Mediterranean Archaeology
T2 - current applications and future perspectives
AU - Riehle, Kai
AU - Kistler, Erich
AU - Öhlinger, Birgit
AU - Heitz, Christian
AU - Ben-Shlomo, David
AU - Jung, Reinhard
AU - Mommsen, Hans
AU - Sterba, Johannes H.
AU - Gimatzidis, Stefanos
AU - Fantalkin, Alexander
AU - Prillwitz, Susanne
AU - Hein, Anno
AU - Geissler, Leonhard
AU - Lehmann, Gunnar
AU - Kindberg Jacobsen, Jan
AU - Posamentir, Richard
AU - Schlotzhauer, Udo
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2023, The Author(s).
PY - 2023/3
Y1 - 2023/3
N2 - This paper, jointly written by participants of a workshop held in 2021, argues for an increased recognition and application of neutron activation analysis (NAA) in the archaeology of the ancient Mediterranean. Discussing the methodological strengths and challenges, it highlights the great potential NAA has for collecting proxy data from ceramics in order to develop progressive concepts of archaeological research within and beyond the Mediterranean Bronze and Iron Age, pointing out opportunities to revisit long-held assumptions of scholarship and to refine visual/macroscopic provenance determinations of pottery. To take full advantage of NAA’s strengths toward a better understanding of the socioeconomic background of ceramics production, distribution, and consumption, the paper emphasises the need for both interdisciplinary collaboration and basic data publication requirements.
AB - This paper, jointly written by participants of a workshop held in 2021, argues for an increased recognition and application of neutron activation analysis (NAA) in the archaeology of the ancient Mediterranean. Discussing the methodological strengths and challenges, it highlights the great potential NAA has for collecting proxy data from ceramics in order to develop progressive concepts of archaeological research within and beyond the Mediterranean Bronze and Iron Age, pointing out opportunities to revisit long-held assumptions of scholarship and to refine visual/macroscopic provenance determinations of pottery. To take full advantage of NAA’s strengths toward a better understanding of the socioeconomic background of ceramics production, distribution, and consumption, the paper emphasises the need for both interdisciplinary collaboration and basic data publication requirements.
KW - Connectivity
KW - Interdisciplinarity
KW - Mediterranean Archaeology
KW - NAA
KW - Pottery studies
KW - Provenance determination
UR - https://www.scopus.com/pages/publications/85148225836
U2 - 10.1007/s12520-023-01728-1
DO - 10.1007/s12520-023-01728-1
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AN - SCOPUS:85148225836
SN - 1866-9557
VL - 15
JO - Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences
JF - Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences
IS - 3
M1 - 25
ER -