Petrography Workshop Leicester 22 March 2010

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Aims:

  • what can ceramics petrography do for us?
  • strategies of sampling


Participants:

Ian, Elisa, Andrea, Alessandro, Katharina, Melissa, Sara


Programme

09:00 Intro to petrology and optical mineralogy (An introduction to optical mineralogy and microscopy, identifying minerals and rocks, grouping ceramics, ceramic thin section description and interpreting provenance and technology.)

11:30 Coffee

11:00 Practical: hand specimen and thin sections (Practical carried out both in hand specimens and under the microscope)

12:30 Thin section preparation (Tour through the thin section preparation lab, showing examples of sample preparation.)

13:00 Lunch

13:45 XRF (Test run on ceramics on the Micro-XRF Horiba XGT-7000 on the department, comparing differences in the chemical composition of clays.)

14:30 ASPIS (Case study grouping a real ceramic assemblage. The samples would be study and divided into fabric groups under the microscope)

16:00 Coffee

16:20 Fabrics hand specimen (Classification of fabric groups based on macro analysis of sherds, following Peacock’s method.)

17:00 Close

19:00 PARTY!!!!

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