摘要：Chemical (elemental and isotopic) analysis is a basic tool in provenance as well as conservation studies of historical glass. Besides the widely applied Electrone Probe Microanalysis (EPMA), X-ray Flourescence Analysis (XRF) and Inductively Coupled Plasma Mass Spectrometry (ICP-MS), less known Prompt Gamma Activation Analysis (PGAA) is a powerfool method to investigate whole glass objects or fragments. In 2004, we initiated a research project to investigate elemental composition of historical glass objects, unearthed in Poland with PGAA and EPMA. PGAA was applied for quantification of major components, as well as of some minor elements of glass. The non-destructive feature of PGAA, as well as its very low (0.3 μg/g) detection limit for boron is highly capitalized on, as we discussed in Kasztovszky et al. (2005a). Boron concentration can provide important technological information in glass archaeometry. However, it is very difficult to analyze it by the use of traditional non-destructive methods. In this respect, PGAA seems to be a complementary tool for other analytical methods already well known and used in glass archaeometry
