Rock Temper Ceramics
A possible useful technique for situations where they will not let you make thin sections.
Rock temper ceramics. The term temper when used in ceramics refers to a non plastic material that is added to clay. Pure kaolin clay does not require tempering. Identifying the mineralogy of rock temper in ceramics using x radiography. You may hear the term grog tempered clay.
American antiquity 60 4 723 749. Some clays are self tempered that is naturally contain enough mica sand or sponge spicules that they do not require additional tempering. Grog is a temper. However it may be a bit more difficult to discern the identity mineralogy of the rock fragments note the blind study results as well as.
Ang 6930 archaeological ceramics k. Having looked at the question of what is grog in pottery let s take a closer look at why it s used. 1250 in the central and southern part of texas where bone tempered pottery is found in the most abundance hester and hill make note of various reports citing the presence of bone tempered pottery at many sites along the coast and in the pecos region. In addition bone tempering has been found in varying amounts in caddoan and.
Ppl 4x sand tempered plain pottery quartz sand sand temper. Ceramics appear in archaeological assemblages around a d.