Confronta i metodi

	Petrografia ceramica	Provenienza dello Stronzio
Campo	Archeologia	Archeologia
Famiglia	Process / pipeline	Process / pipeline
Anno di origine	1976	1985
Ideatore	Peter Stimmung	Jonathan Ericson
Tipo	Clay and temper sourcing	Isotopic sourcing technique
Fonte seminale	Quinn, P. S. (2013). Ceramic Petrology: The Interpretation of Ceramic Artifacts in Archaeological Science. Archaeopress.	Ericson, J. E. (1985). Strontium isotope characterization in the study of prehistoric migrations. Journal of Human Evolution, 14(5), 503-514.
Alias	ceramic thin section analysis, pottery petrography	Sr isotope provenance, strontium isotope analysis
Correlati	4	4
Sintesi	Ceramic petrography analyzes pottery through microscopic examination of thin sections cut from pottery sherds. This method determines clay sources, identifies non-plastic inclusions (temper), and reconstructs pottery production technology. Pioneered by Peter Stimmung and others, ceramic petrography reveals whether pottery was made locally or imported, and whether specific production groups or workshops created vessels with distinctive raw material recipes.	Strontium isotope provenance analysis uses the ratios of strontium-87 to strontium-86 in human skeletal remains to determine geographic origin and track human mobility and migration. Developed by Jonathan Ericson in the 1980s, this method exploits the fact that strontium isotope ratios in the environment vary geographically based on underlying geology. When individuals consume food and water from a specific region, they incorporate that region's characteristic strontium isotope signature into their bones and teeth, creating a geochemical fingerprint of their residence.