Ceramic Petrographic Thin Sections

Using over 200 colour photomicrographs of thin sections from a diverse range of artefacts archaeological.

Ceramic petrographic thin sections.

Grain mount thin section. The interpretation of archaeological pottery and related artefacts in thin section. Professional thin section petrographic and geochemical analysis of archaeological pottery cbm metallurgical ceramics building stone plaster and lithics for the interpretation of provenance and craft technology. 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.

Standard 27x46mm large 3 x2 thin sections. Mary ownby with the petrographic microscope that is specifically designed to examine rock and pottery thin sections. Samples are ground to a thickness of 0 03 mm and mounted on a glass slide. Ceramic petrography analytical service professional thin section petrographic and geochemical analysis of archaeological pottery cbm metallurgical ceramics building stone plaster and lithics for the interpretation of provenance and craft technology.

Fundamentally petrography employs techniques borrowed from geology to examine ancient pottery to identify the materials used to manufacture the ceramic objects. A cover slip is glued onto the exposed surface. Ceramic petrography analytical service. 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.

Grain mount thin section with red or blue epoxy. The interpretation of archaeological pottery related artefacts in thin section. 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. 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.