The effects of ceramic manufacturing behaviour on identifying clay sources: petrographic and chemical analyses of the modern Zulu ceramic production process in the Thukela River Basin, South Africa

This thesis aims to evaluate the compositional changes that occur when raw clays are transformed into finished vessels, and how these compositional changes impact provenance research. Petrographic and chemical techniques are used to analyse clays at each stage in the production sequence used by Zulu...

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Main Author: Middleton, Emma C.
Other Authors: Fowler, Kent (Anthropology)
Published: 2012
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1993/8351