Ref ID:	22871
Ref Type:	Book Section
Authors:	Peterson, John A. Yankowski, Andrea Badowski, Grazyna De Carlo, Eric
Title:	The Tuyom clay source and ceramics from the Central Visayas, Philippines: comperative studies using ICPMS elemental analysis
Date:	2012
Source:	Crossing borders: selected papers from the 13th International Conference of the European Association of Southeast Asian Archaeologists
Place of Publication:	Singapore
Publisher:	NUS Press
Abstract:	This project compares the elemental signature of clays and earthenware pottery from the Central Visayas using ICPMS (Inductively Coupled Plasma-Mass Spectrometry) and multivariate statistical analysis. Data from specimens from Cebu and Bohol are included with that from a previous study comparing the Tuyom clay source in Cebu with very local pottery near Carcar, Cebu. The previous study demonstrated that ceramic sherds from several Iron Age sites in the vicinity were likely from the source earlier Neolithic era pottery did not match. This was not surprising since the source is from a paleosol that formed in AD 1000-1200 and the radiocarbon age of the late Neolithic pottery was ca. 1000 years earlier. Neither did pottery from Liloan, 60km further north in Cebu nor near another quality clay source, match. The present study combines elemental data from pottery in Bohol which is directly across the Bohol Strait from Cebu in order to broaden the comparative universe and to consider the strength of relations between cross-channel villages, if any. This study contributes to the consideration of household vs. village production and exchange of earthenware pottery in the region as well as to refinement of regional chronologies and social practices.
Date Created:	9/26/2013
Editors:	Tjoa-Bonatz, Mai Lin Reine cke, Andreas Bonatz, Dominik
Volume:	1
Page Start:	329
Page End:	341