Isotopes in Vitreous Materials

Patrick Degryse is Professor of Archaeometry at KU Leuven, studying the history and use of mineral resources in ancient technology. Julian Henderson is Professor of Archaeological Science at the department of Archaeology, School of Humanities, at the University of Nottingham, UK. Greg Hodgins is an Assistant Research Scientist and an Assistant Professor of Anthropology at the National Science Foundation - Arizona Accelerator Mass Spectrometry Laboratory, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, USA.

• List of IllustrationsList of TablesP. Degryse, J. Henderson, G. Hodgins, Isotopes in vitreous materials, a state-of-the-art and perspectivesI.C. Freestone, S. Wolf, M. Thirlwall, Isotopic composition of glass from the Levant and the south-eastern Mediterranean RegionP. Degryse, J. Schneider, V. Lauwers, J. Henderson, B. Van Daele, M. Martens, H. Huisman, D. De Muynck, P. Muchez, Neodymium and strontium isotopes in the provenance determination of primary natron glass productionJ. Henderson, J. Evans, Y. Barkoudah, The provenance of Syrian plant ash glass: an isotopic approachA.J. Shortland, The implications of lead isotope analysis for the source of pigments in Late Bronze Age Egyptian vitreous materialsD. Dungworth, P. Degryse, J. Schneider, Kelp in historic glass: the application of strontium isotope analysisP. Marzo, F. Laborda, J. Pérez-Arantegui, Medieval and postmedieval Hispano-Moresque glazed ceramics: new possibilities of characterization by means of lead isotope ratio determination by Quadrupole ICP-MS 131M.S. Walton, PLS regression to determine lead isotope ratios of Roman lead glazed ceramics by laser ablation TOF-ICP-MS 145List of AuthorsThe Editors

This volume is a welcome and needed synthesis of isotopic analyses of inorganic vitreous archaeological materials. Discussions in various chapters on the history of the use of recent isotopic analysis of archaeological materials are very useful and make this book invaluable to scholars and students needing to understand some basics. Provenance, an important question for archaeologists, was adequately addressed in nearly all chapters. Reviewed by Thomas R. Fenn, School of Anthropology, University of Arizona, Tucson for Journal of Field Archaeology 2011 VOL. 36 NO. 1