Investigation of trace elements in pottery at Adequentaga

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Emily R. Wojcik, wojcike@hartwick.edu1, Susan M Young, youngs@hartwick.edu2, and John B. Dudek, dudekj@hartwick.edu2. (1) Hartwick College, Box 1220, Hartwick College, Oneonta, NY 13820, (2) Department of Chemistry, Hartwick College, 1 Hartwick Drive, Oneonta, NY 13820
Trace element analysis of pottery samples in archeological sites can be used to determine of the pottery was made from native clays. Pottery samples collected from several temporal layers at the Adequentaga archaeological site in the Upper Susquehanna River Valley of New York were analyzed for the trace elements lead, barium, yttrium, strontium, rubidium, zirconium, nickel, and iron using X-ray fluorescence (XRF). The Iroquois pottery samples were compared to other samples taken from the site in order to determine the relative length of habitation of Iroquois at Adequentaga.
 

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