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Chemical variability in clays and pottery from a traditional cooking pot production village: Testing assumptions in Pereruela
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This paper explores analytically the contemporary pottery-making community of Pereruela (north-west Spain) that produces cooking pots from a mixture of red clay and kaolin. Analyses by different techniques (XRF, NAA, XRD, SEM and petrography) showed an extremely high variability for cooking ware pottery produced in a single production centre, by the same technology and using local clays. The main source of chemical variation is related to the use of different red clays and the presence of non-normally distributed inclusions of monazite. These two factors induce a high chemical variability, not only in the output of a single production centre, but even in the paste of a single pot, to an extent to which chemical compositions from one"workshop", or even one"pot", could be classified as having different provenances. The implications for the chemical characterization and for provenance studies of archaeological ceramics are addressed.
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BUXEDA I GARRIGÓS, Jaume, CAU ONTIVEROS, Miguel Ángel and KILIKOGLOU, Vassilis. Chemical variability in clays and pottery from a traditional cooking pot production village: Testing assumptions in Pereruela. Archaeometry. 2003. Vol. 45, num. 1-17. ISSN 0003-813X. [consulted: 13 of October of 2026]. Available at: https://hdl.handle.net/2445/33502