出版社：South Carolina Institute of Archaeology and Anthropology
摘要：Current knowledge regarding the provenance of pre-Columbian ceramic raw materials, i.e. clays and temper materials, and the identification of exchange wares is largely insufficient. Only in rare cases have technological aspects such as the temper constituents of the pottery been analyzed, and even then rarely combining conventional and archaeometric techniques. In this paper the methodology of a project that started at Leiden University in 2004 will be discussed and illustrated by the preliminary results obtained from a micro-regional case study carried out in southern St. Lucia. Potsherds from three archaeological sites have been analyzed. The results show that pre-Columbian potters on the island made use of both locally available as well as non-local clays
