Recent Advances in Laser Ablation ICP-MS for Archaeology

Chapter 1 Instrumentation, Fundamentals, and Application of Laser Ablation-Inductively Coupled Plasma-Mass Spectrometry

Chapter 2 Introduction to Solid Sampling Strategies

Chapter 3 Open-Cell Ablation of Killke and Inka Pottery from the Cuzco Area: Museum Collections as Repositories of Provenience Information

Chapter 4 Optimization of 2D LA-ICP-MS Mapping of Glass with Decorative Colored Features: Application to Analysis of a Polychrome Vessel Fragment from the Iron Age

Chapter 5 LA-ICP-MS Analysis of Ancient Silver Coins Using Concentration Profiles

Chapter 6 Analysis of Non-siliceous Archaeological Materials by LA-ICP-MS

Chapter 7 Precise and Accurate Analysis of Gold Alloys: Varna, the Earliest Gold of Mankind—A Case Study

Chapter 8 LA-ICP-MS Analysis of Prehistoric Copper and Bronze Metalwork from Armenia

Chapter 9 Analysis of Vitreous Archaeological Materials by LA-ICP-MS

Chapter 10 Contributions of LA-ICP-MS to Obsidian Sourcing in the Pacific

Chapter 11 The Role of LA-ICP-MS in the Investigation of Archaeological Glass

Chapter 12 Glass Characterization Using Laser Ablation-Inductively Coupled Plasma-Mass Spectrometry Methods

Chapter 13 A Proficiency Test for LA-ICP-MS Laboratories Analyzing Ancient Glass

Chapter 14 Characterization of Slag Inclusions in Iron Objects

Chapter 15 Expanded Applications of Laser Ablation-ICP-MS in Archaeology

Chapter 16 Determining the Provenience of Garnet Beads Using LA-ICP-MS

Chapter 17 Application of LA-ICP-MS to Black Stone Objects Used During the Iron Age in Celtic Europe

Chapter 18 Investigating Biogenic Versus Diagenetic Trace Element Incorporation in Archaeological Mineralized Tissues with LA-ICP-MS

Chapter 19 Pb Isotopic Composition of Panamanian Colonial Majolica by LA-ICP-MS