Ceramic Petrographic Thin Sections

Ceramic petrography or ceramic petrology is a laboratory based scientific archaeological technique that examines the mineralogical and microstructural composition of ceramics and other inorganic materials under the polarised light microscope in order to interpret aspects of the provenance and technology of artefacts.

Ceramic petrographic thin sections.

Using over 200 colour photomicrographs of thin sections from a diverse range of artefacts archaeological. 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. Samples are ground to a thickness of 0 03 mm and mounted on a glass slide. Ceramic petrography analytical service.

Grain mount thin section with red or blue epoxy. A cover slip is glued onto the exposed surface. 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. 2013 archaeopress oxford 260 pp color isbn 978 1 905 73959 2 35 paperback.

Grain mount thin section. Standard 27x46mm large 3 x2 thin sections. Studies focusing on the provenance and manufacturing technology of these types of artefacts rely on the identification of characteristic petrographic. 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.

Fundamentally petrography employs techniques borrowed from geology to examine ancient pottery to identify the materials used to manufacture the ceramic objects. Ceramic thin section petrography petrology archaeology mineralogy. Mary ownby with the petrographic microscope that is specifically designed to examine rock and pottery thin sections. The interpretation of archaeological pottery related artefacts in thin section.