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About the authors -- Index. X-ray fluorescence (XRF) spectrometry is a nondestructive elemental analysis technique utilized in many industrial and research settings. Developments in instrument components and design have allowed applications of XRF spectrometry to expand beyond the laboratory and into field settings such as museums and archaeological excavation sites. This book serves as a practical guide for the application of XRF spectrometry to the study and understanding of archaeology. Early chapters serve as both an introduction to XRF theory and instrumentation as well as an introduction to field applications and practical aspects of archaeology and conservation. These early chapters thus provide those new to XRF and/or new to field archaeology a solid foundation on which to base further study. Based on recent trends within field archaeology, information specific to portable instrumentation also is included in early chapters in addition to a later separate chapter devoted to data collection in the field including both field labs and archaeological sites. The chapter devoted to data discusses qualitative and quantitative approaches, applications of various statistical methods to XRF data, and then relates these data types and statistical methods back to the types of archaeological questions that are possible to answer through XRF analysis. With statistics playing an ever-increasing role in data evaluation, new and experienced users of XRF spectrometry will find the statistics overview particularly helpful in expanding how data can be interpreted and presented. The book concludes with individual chapters devoted to specific archaeological sample types including pigments, ceramics, glass, construction materials, and metallurgical materials. Each of these material-specific chapters includes a section relating that material type back to the archaeology itself. Numerous examples, figures, and spectra are provided within these chapters.

X-ray spectroscopy in archaeology. --- X-Ray spectroscopy --- Radiography in archaeology --- Archaeology --- Data processing --- X-ray spectroscopy. --- Methodology