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Glass in African Archaeology: A New Methodology Offers New Opportunities

Glass in African Archaeology: A New Methodology Offers New Opportunities Afr Archaeol Rev https://doi.org/10.1007/s10437-023-09527-8 COMMENTARY Glass in African Archaeology: A New Methodology Offers New Opportunities Ian C. Freestone © The Author(s), under exclusive licence to Springer Science+Business Media, LLC, part of Springer Nature 2023 The roots of the present collection of papers lie partly in the application of neutron activation analysis (Davi- the dramatic expansion of the analysis of archaeological son & Clark, 1974; Hancock, 2013; Hancock et  al., glass that has occurred in the last twenty years or so, 1994). However, the application of the LA-ICP-MS fuelled by the increasing availability of minimally inva- technique, pioneered by Bernard Gratuze and further sive but precise and accurate techniques of chemical developed by Laure Dussubieux and others (Dus- analysis (Rehren & Freestone, 2015). In particular, laser subieux & Gratuze, 2003; Lankton & Dussubieux, ablation inductively-coupled plasma mass spectrom- 2006; Robertshaw et al., 2010; Wood et al., 2012), is, etry (LA-ICP-MS) allows the rapid analysis of small without doubt, the driver of the current archeologi- glass objects for around 60 chemical elements with- cal studies of glass. The glass vessels common in the out removing a sample, leaving a small sub-millimeter archaeologies of the Middle East, Europe, and the scar which is unnoticeable under normal examination Mediterranean http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png African Archaeological Review Springer Journals

Glass in African Archaeology: A New Methodology Offers New Opportunities

African Archaeological Review , Volume 40 (2) – Jun 1, 2023

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Afr Archaeol Rev https://doi.org/10.1007/s10437-023-09527-8 COMMENTARY Glass in African Archaeology: A New Methodology Offers New Opportunities Ian C. Freestone © The Author(s), under exclusive licence to Springer Science+Business Media, LLC, part of Springer Nature 2023 The roots of the present collection of papers lie partly in the application of neutron activation analysis (Davi- the dramatic expansion of the analysis of archaeological son & Clark, 1974; Hancock, 2013; Hancock et  al., glass that has occurred in the last twenty years or so, 1994). However, the application of the LA-ICP-MS fuelled by the increasing availability of minimally inva- technique, pioneered by Bernard Gratuze and further sive but precise and accurate techniques of chemical developed by Laure Dussubieux and others (Dus- analysis (Rehren & Freestone, 2015). In particular, laser subieux & Gratuze, 2003; Lankton & Dussubieux, ablation inductively-coupled plasma mass spectrom- 2006; Robertshaw et al., 2010; Wood et al., 2012), is, etry (LA-ICP-MS) allows the rapid analysis of small without doubt, the driver of the current archeologi- glass objects for around 60 chemical elements with- cal studies of glass. The glass vessels common in the out removing a sample, leaving a small sub-millimeter archaeologies of the Middle East, Europe, and the scar which is unnoticeable under normal examination Mediterranean

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Published: Jun 1, 2023

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