标题：An Exploratory Study into the Chemical Characterization of Caribbean Ceramics: An Introduction to a Special Volume of the Journal of Caribbean Archaeology in memory of James B. Petersen
出版社：South Carolina Institute of Archaeology and Anthropology
摘要：The papers presented in this issue of the Journal of Caribbean Archaeology were presented at the 2006 Society for American Archeology (SAA) annual meetings in San Juan, Puerto Rico. The conference papers were part of a session entitled "An Exploratory Study into the Chemical Characterization of Caribbean Ceramics: In Memory of James B. Petersen." A participant in and strong supporter of the session, Prof. James B. Petersen was tragically murdered in the summer of 2005 while conducting fieldwork in Brazil. The organizer for the session was Christophe Descantes; the session chair was Michael D. Glascock. Ronald Bishop (Smithsonian Institution) served as the discussant for the session and offered invaluable comments on the papers. For the journal issue, Christophe Descantes, Robert J. Speakman, Michael D. Glascock, and Matthew T. Boulanger are the special editors. Descantes, Speakman, and Glascock were involved in the instrumental neutron activation analysis (INAA) of the ceramic and clay specimens at the University of Missouri Research Reactor Center (MURR), and Boulanger helped in the editing, typesetting, and pre-press of the articles. Daan Iseendoorn et al.'s work was analyzed using x-ray fluorescence (XRF) at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
