The history of analytical chemistry in archaeology

The development of instrumental measurement techniques during the 1920s and 1930s such as optical emission spectroscopy (OES see Section 3.1) gave 

During the late 1950s and early 1960s, the diffusionist archaeological philosophies of the 1930s were replaced by radical new theoretical 

It has been shown over the years that, to be of lasting interpretative value, chemical analysis in archaeology needs to be more than a descriptive exercise that simply documents the composition of ancient materials. This is often much more difficult than producing the primary analytical data as DeAtley and Bishop (1991 371) have pointed out, no analytical technique has built-in interpretative value for archaeological investigations the links between 

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