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PORTABLE XRF "STARTER PACK"

Here I have assembled a "starter pack" of my publications for those archaeologists interested in incorporating portable X-ray fluorescence (pXRF) into their own research projects and publishing their findings.

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Protocols, pitfalls, and publishing for pXRF analyses: From “know how” to “best practices.”

 

Frahm 2024

Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports

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Introducing the BRICC (Bricks and Rocks for Instruments’ Ceramic Calibration) sets: Open-source calibration materials for quantitative X-ray fluorescence analysis

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Frahm et al. 2022

Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports

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Ceramic studies using portable XRF: From experimental tempered ceramics to imports and imitations at Tell Mozan, Syria

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Frahm 2018

Journal of Archaeological Science

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Late Holocene forager-fisher and pastoralist interactions along the Lake Victoria shores, Kenya: Perspectives from portable XRF of obsidian artifacts

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Frahm et al. 2017

Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports

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Chemical soil surveys at the Bremer Site (Dakota County, Minnesota, USA): Measuring phosphorous content  of sediment by portable XRF and ICP-OES

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Frahm et al. 2016

Journal of Archaeological Science

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Characterizing obsidian sources with portable XRF: Accuracy, reproducibility, and field relationships in a case study from Armenia

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Frahm 2014

Journal of Archaeological Science

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The technological versus methodological revolution of portable XRF in archaeology

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Frahm and Doonan 2013

Journal of Archaeological Science

©2025 by Ellery Frahm

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