Research Article

Preliminary Compositional Evidence of Provenance of Ceramics from Hatahara Archaeological Site, Central Amazonia

Table 1

Mean, standard deviation, and range for the ceramic samples, , and clay, , in µg/g unless otherwise indicated.

ElementMean ± SDRangeClay 1Clay 2Clay 3Clay 4Clay 5Clay 6

Na, % 0.1–0.70.80.10.71.21.20.6
K, % 0.4–2.61.60.91.52.32.32.5
La 20.1–93.943.624.436.836.439.756.8
Yb 1.6–7.74.13.32.83.33.13.6
Lu 0.3–1.20.50.50.40.40.50.6
U 0.5–7.53.63.93.33.23.23.5
Ce 39.5–96.8107.940.973.076.381.3105.7
Cr 40.8–89.060.191.559.160.663.092.7
Cs 2.6–10.67.38.37.14.65.313.7
Eu 0.7–1.91.70.51.31.51.71.8
Fe, % 1.5–4.74.06.33.04.14.43.9
Hf 3.1–17.68.111.49.48.99.54.7
Sc 9.1–19.314.714.613.614.815.621.4
Tb 0.3–1.41.20.81.20.80.80.6
Th 8.7–20.012.017.611.712.012.917.2