The probable industrial origin of archaeological daub at an Iron
Age site in Northeast Thailand Parr, JF & Boyd, WE 2002, 'The
probable industrial origin of archaeological daub at an Iron Age
site in Northeast Thailand', Geoarchaeology, vol. 17, no. 3, pp.
285 - 303. The definitive version is available at
www3.interscience.wiley.com, http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/gea.10013
Determining probable firing temperatures of daub recovered from
archaeological sites provides opportunities to interpret the
design and/or function of prehistoric structures. This paper
critiques some of the methods for determining firing
temperatures of daub, and presents a case study using samples
from a secure depositional context at the Iron Age
archaeological site of Noen U-Loke, in northeast Thailand.
Adopting a multimethod approach, the paper examines
relationships between color, micro- and macro-inclusions,
elemental and mineralogical composition, physical form, and
temperature, through the application of ICP-MS, XRD analysis,
magnetic