Ian:
Dr. Claudia Brackett-Lundin and I have done several pXRF soil and plant
surveys of prerhistoric and historic era sites in Arizona, California,
Alabama, Texas, Illinois, Virginia, Florida and New Mexico in the US and
Temple Mayor and Santa Maria Acatitlan in Mexico and Maya sites in
Guatemala with both NITON and INNOV-X (now Olympus NDT. instruments) and
are acknowledged pioneers in the the use of this technology for field soil
and plant surveys and coined the pXRF acronym at SHA in Williamsburg in
2007.
I, personally, am a "retred" geologist with +40 years in the mining
industry doing field geochemistry, near-surface geophysics and airbourne
remote sensing. I have an MA in Historical Archaeology with an
archaeogeophysics emphasis from Northern Arizona University under Dr.
Charles Hoffman.
Dr. Brackett-Lundin is an instrumental chemist who has specialized in pXRF
applications for archaeology and geology.
We have presented at several SHA, CAA, SAA, SAS and IGU Conferences since
2005 and FIRST introduced pXRF technology to field archaeology in 2005 with
and with a presentation of pXRF field soil surveys of the Mexican
Babocamari Presidio in 2006 with a presentation at SHA.
Dr. Brackett-Lundin and I have not been actively doing field surveys since
2010 when we were both disabled in a "skinhead" attack here in California.
After two operations and several other medical proceedures, we are now
almost fully recovered and are revisiting our past soil and
archaeogeochemical plant surveys of sites in Arizona, Texas, Illinois,
California and Alabama for a future publication of Case Studies.
Since I am almost fully field capable and we still have a research interest
in the use of pXRF technology for both archaeogeochemical soil and
archaeobiochemical plant field investigations. We are hoping to use these
technologies along with Combined Survey Format (CSF) archaeogeophysical
technologies and field techniques to find the the "lost" sites of the 1565
French setllement of La Caroline in Florida (or Georgia, if you believe the
the recent Press Release, which we don't); the "lost" Caravels of Columbus
in Saint Anne's Bay, Jamaica and the "Tell Frigate" of the 1579 Drake
Expedition, and, finally, the "lost" 2nd Day Battlefield of Bannockburn in
Scotland-all under the flag of Wondjina Research Institute (WRI).
As we are just "over the hill" from you at Twain Harte California and I did
my graduate Field School work in Historical Archaeology at UNR under Don
Hardesty, I believe that we would have much to discuss. We do get "over
the Hill" on a quaqrterly basis for Geological Society of Nevada
(GSN) meetings and could get together with you in April when I am scheduled
to give a talk at the Reno Meeting of GSN on one of our mineral industry
projects.
Please feel free to call me a call at WRI's Confidence House number: (209)
586-5632 so that we may get together and exchange ideas and referencesso
as to assist you in your MA Thesis work. By the way, what instrument are
you using for the field work?
Sincerely,
Richard J. Lundin BA, MA, RPA, ISAP, AIPG
Registered Professional Historical Archaeologist (RPA) & Remote Sensing
Specialist (ISAP)(Airbourne & Archaeogeophysics)
Mineral Exploration Consultant, Professional Geologist (AIPG) and
Permitting Specialist
Director, Wondjina Research Institute
President & CEO, RICH ORE Mining, Inc.
Vice President & Exploration Manager, GOLD BAR Mining, Inc.
President, Wombat Mining Co.
Geologist & Agent, Oro Grande Mining, Inc.
Partner, WRI\CC JV
California Office: (209) 586-5632
22510 Confidence Rd., Twain Harte CA 95383
Arizona Field Office: (928) 274-6529
On Tue, Feb 25, 2014 at 12:28 PM, Ian Springer <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> I am working on geochemical analysis of soils as part of my MA thesis at
> the University of Nevada, Reno, and I'm trying to find information on what
> has been done using XRF on soils, specifically in historical archaeology in
> the United States. I've searched as many relevant journals as I can find,
> but all of the published articles using XRF in the U.S. focus on artifacts,
> such as ceramics or spent rifle shells. I have found examples of the use of
> XRF on soils in Europe, but if it has been used in the U.S., it appears
> that nothing has been published in the literature that I have access to.
> Has anyone written about this as part of a CRM report, or perhaps a
> regional journal?
> Here is a listing of what I have found so far:
>
> Duran, A., et al.
> 2011 Analytical Study of Roman and Arabic Wall Paintings in the Patio De
> Banderas of Reales Alcazares' Palace Using Non-Destructive XRD/XRF and
> Complementary Techniques. Journal of Archaeological Science 38:2366-2377.
>
> Gilbert, Allan S., Garman Harbottle, and Daniel deNoyelles
> 1993 A Ceramic Chemistry Archive for New Netherland/New York. Historical
> Archaeology 27(3):17-56.
>
> Hein, Don, Gary Hill, and Ross H. Ramsay
> 2004 Raw or Pre-Fired: Kiln Construction at Sawankhalok, North Central
> Thailand, as a Guide to Ceramic History. International Journal of
> Historical Archaeology 8(4):247-266.
>
> Milek, Karen B., and Howell M. Roberts
> 2013 Integrated Geoarchaeological Methods for the Determination of Site
> Activity Areas: A Study of a Viking Age House in Reykjavik, Iceland.
> Journal of Archaeological Science 40(4):1845-1865.
>
> Neff, Hector, Barbara Voorhies, and Federico Paredes Umana
> 2012 Handheld XRF for Art and Archaeology. Volume 3. Leuven: Leuven
> University Press.
>
> Owen, J. V., and Denise Hansen
> 1996 Compositional Constraints on the Identification of Eighteenth-Century
> Porcelain Sherds from Fort Beausejour, New Brunswick, and Grassy Island,
> Nova Scotia, Canada. Historical Archaeology 30(4):88-100.
>
> Pearl, Frederic B., and Sandy Loiseau-Vonruff
> 2007 Father Julian Vidal and the Social transformation of a Small
> Polynesian Village (1787-1930): Historical Archaeology at Massacre Bay,
> American Samoa. International Journal of Historical Archaeology 11(1):32-59.
>
> Shackel, Paul A., and Michael Roller
> 2012 The Gilded Age Wasn't So Gilded in the Anthracite Region of
> Pennsylvania. International Journal of Historical Archaeology 16(4):761-775.
>
> Thomas, William J., et al.
> 1992 An X-Ray Fluorescence-Pattern Recognition Analysis of Pottery from an
> Early Historic Hispanic Settlement near Santa Fe, New Mexico. Historical
> Archaeology 26(2):24-36.
>
> Any further suggestions would be appreciated,
> Ian Springer
>
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