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FRAGMENTS of pottery are the most common signs of human occupation on most archæological sites. Their origin can often be deduced from their shapes and fabrics. There are many cases, however, where this evidence alone is ambiguous, and the work described herewith was undertaken to investigate the possibility of identifying the origin from the concentrations of various minor or trace constituents. Such variations of composition of the ceramic body would tend to reflect the variations in the clay from which it was made1.
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RICHARDS, E., HARTLEY, K. Spectrographic Analysis of Romano-British Pottery. Nature 185, 194–196 (1960). https://doi.org/10.1038/185194a0
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