Evidence for Complexities in the RHX Dating Method |
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| Authors: | M Le Goff Y Gallet |
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| Institution: | Equipe de Paléomagnétisme, Institut de Physique du Globe de Paris, Sorbonne Paris Cité, Université Paris Diderot, Paris, France |
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| Abstract: | The rehydroxylation (RHX) dating method applicable to virtually all baked clay fragments still requires testing and new developments. Here, we have obtained new weighing measurements from Syrian medieval ceramic fragments. In particular, they allow us to illustrate the scatter in RHX behaviour that may exist between different potsherds of the same age and found at the same archaeological site, thus having experienced the same effective lifetime temperature, and even between samples collected from the same artefact. Thanks to a so‐called time‐span analysis, we also report on some complexities in data sets previously obtained by Wilson et al. (2009, 2012, 2014). |
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| Keywords: | Rehydroxylation Dating Method Ceramic Syria Stabilization of Archaeological Sample Mass Time Variation and Scatter in Rehydroxylation Rate |
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