ABSTRACT
Patterns in ceramic production have been determined through analysis of chemical element attributes of pottery samples from the Tutu site. In this study, pottery samples representing four chronological components of the settlement were analyzed, allowing rudimentary modeling of continuity and change in ceramic production processes. Sherd samples discussed here were investigated by the acid-extraction method of inductively coupled plasma emission spectroscopy (ICP). The acid-extraction ICP analyses provide measurements of the quantities of certain chemical elements extracted from the sherds.
