Ceramic Petrographic Thin Sections

Using over 200 colour photomicrographs of thin sections from a diverse range of artefacts archaeological.

Ceramic petrographic thin sections.

Ceramic thin section petrography petrology archaeology mineralogy. Standard 27x46mm large 3 x2 thin sections. Ceramic petrography analytical service. Studies focusing on the provenance and manufacturing technology of these types of artefacts rely on the identification of characteristic petrographic.

A cover slip is glued onto the exposed surface. Thin section ceramic petrography is a versatile interdisciplinary analytical tool for the characterization and interpretation of archaeological pottery and related artefacts including ceramic building materials refractories and plaster. Mary ownby with the petrographic microscope that is specifically designed to examine rock and pottery thin sections. Grain mount thin section.

Alternatively non cubic ceramics can be prepared as thin sections also known as petrography for examination by polarized transmitted light microscopy in this technique the specimen is sawed to 1 mm thick glued to a microscope slide and ground or sawed e g by microtome to a thickness x approaching 30 µm. Ceramic petrography analytical service professional thin section petrographic and geochemical analysis of archaeological pottery cbm metallurgical ceramics building stone plaster and lithics for the interpretation of provenance and craft technology. 2013 archaeopress oxford 260 pp color isbn 978 1 905 73959 2 35 paperback. Data from the thin section petrographic analysis of archaeological pottery and other ceramic materials such as brick tile daub and clay pipes is not well represented in the published literature.

The interpretation of archaeological pottery and related artefacts in thin section. Professional thin section petrographic and geochemical analysis of archaeological pottery cbm metallurgical ceramics building stone plaster and lithics for the interpretation of provenance and craft technology. Samples are ground to a thickness of 0 03 mm and mounted on a glass slide. The interpretation of archaeological pottery related artefacts in thin section.