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Sicán blackware from a 1000-year old elite tomb at Huaca Loro was characterised by neutron activation analysis, optical thin-section microscopy, X-ray diffraction and Mössbauer spectroscopy. A number of blackware fragments from the later site of Puerto Pobre (ca. AD 1460–1550) were included in the analysis for comparison and found to be of different origin. The black surface of the specimens from Huaca Loro is mostly due to carbon deposition during firing in a reducing environment. Part of the pottery was merely dried at temperatures below 400°C, perhaps because it was made in haste for funeral use.
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Shimada, I., Häusler, W., Hutzelmann, T. et al. Early Pottery Making in Northern Coastal Peru. Part III: Mössbauer Study of Sicán Pottery. Hyperfine Interactions 150, 107–123 (2003). https://doi.org/10.1023/B:HYPE.0000007381.73578.b3
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