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The New Netherland/New York Ceramic Chemistry Archive: Compositional Analysis of Bricks by ICP

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 February 2011

Allan S. Gilbert  and
Garman Harbottle
Allan S. Gilbert
Affiliation:
Allan S. Gilbert, Dept. of Sociology & Anthropology, Fordham University, Bronx, NY 10458
Garman Harbottle
Affiliation:
Garman Harbottle, Dept. of Chemistry, Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, NY 11973
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Abstract

Historical archaeologists investigating early American production and trade must work with the written record as well as the evidence from controlled excavation. Both kinds of data have their place in the inquiry, yet the details they furnish are not necessarily congruent or applicable to the solution of all historical questions. To illustrate, artifacts were not always manufactured in the places where they are found, but in order to resolve this uncertainty accurately and directly, the origins of excavated materials must often be determined by means that are independent of historic documentation. If sources can be shown to be distant, then despite any similarity to items of known local manufacture or written evidence suggesting otherwise, long-range exchange structures must have been present. The interpretation of archaeological and historical data can then be guided by more informed judgment.

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MRS Online Proceedings Library (OPL) , Volume 185: Symposium G – Materials Issues in Art and Archaeology II , 1990 , 9
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Copyright © Materials Research Society 1990

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