“Non-invasive” portable laser ablation sampling for lead isotope analysis of archaeological silver: a comparison with bulk and in situ laser ablation techniques

Author(s):  
S. W. Merkel ◽  
P. D'Imporzano ◽  
K. van Zuilen ◽  
J. Kershaw ◽  
G. R. Davies

Portable laser ablation is tested for Pb isotope analysis of silver, yielding results comparable to bulk analyses. This low impact method removes the need for invasive sampling, opening the way for analysis of archaeological silver worldwide.

2002 ◽  
Vol 29 (9) ◽  
pp. 1043-1053 ◽  
Author(s):  
Judith A. Habicht-Mauche ◽  
Stephen T. Glenn ◽  
Mike P. Schmidt ◽  
Rob Franks ◽  
Homer Milford ◽  
...  

2009 ◽  
Vol 262 (3-4) ◽  
pp. 344-354 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jon Woodhead ◽  
Janet Hergt ◽  
Sebastien Meffre ◽  
Ross R. Large ◽  
Leonid Danyushevsky ◽  
...  

Minerals ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (7) ◽  
pp. 667
Author(s):  
H. Kory Cooper ◽  
Antonio Simonetti

The Indigenous inhabitants of Arctic and Subarctic North America had been using native copper for several centuries prior to sustained interaction with Europeans beginning in the 18th century. The connection, if any, between the use of copper in these two adjacent regions is, at present, unclear. The ability to determine the source of native copper artifacts found in greater northwestern North America would inform on the movement of copper via trade and exchange between, and aid in understanding the innovation and diffusion of native copper metallurgy among, ancestral Dene and Inuit People. This paper provides the results of a Lead Isotope Analysis (LIA) pilot study examining Pb isotope ratios of native copper samples from multiple locations in the northern regions of North America. The results from this preliminary study indicate some overlap in Pb isotope ratios between Arctic and Subarctic sources of native copper, and these nonetheless record distinct isotope signatures relative to those associated with other North American native Cu deposits.


Archaeometry ◽  
2003 ◽  
Vol 45 (4) ◽  
pp. 591-597 ◽  
Author(s):  
M. Ponting ◽  
J. A. Evans ◽  
V. Pashley

2016 ◽  
Vol 31 (1) ◽  
pp. 259-269 ◽  
Author(s):  
Wolfgang Müller ◽  
Robert Anczkiewicz

Accurate in situ Sr isotope analysis of (bio)apatite via ‘robust-plasma’ laser-ablation MC-ICPMS with negligible 40Ca31P16O and reliable 87Rb interference correction.


2006 ◽  
Vol 158 (1) ◽  
pp. 52-64 ◽  
Author(s):  
Arie Zeichner ◽  
Sarah Ehrlich ◽  
Ezra Shoshani ◽  
Ludwik Halicz

1991 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 67-71
Author(s):  
Robert B. Mason ◽  
Ronald M. Farquhar ◽  
Patrick E. Smith

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