Large Number Of Outliers Research Articles

Activation analysis of Turkish and Canadian clays and Turkish pottery

Activation analysis of Canadian and Turkish clays showed that the elements Cs, Th, Sc, Hf, Ta and Co were the most useful elements to study in order to obtain a differentiation by multivariate analysis. The same elements were used to study a variety of Turkish potsherds. It was found that Roman and Byzantine pottery from Yalincak, and Phrygian pottery from Great Tumulus and Tumulus 2 were most probably made from local clay beds. Phrygian pottery from Yalincak shows a tendency to form a small sub-group. However, there are a large number of outliers. No such grouping was found with the Bronze Age pottery analyzed.