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ENERGY-DISPERSIVE X-RAY FLUORESCENCE (EDXRF) ANALYSIS OF MAJOR AND MINOR OXIDE AND TRACE ELEMENT CONCENTRATIONS FOR IRON OXIDE (OCHRE) SAMPLES FROM THREE MINE LOCATIONS AND THE BEACH PALEOINDIAN CACHE IN NORTH DAKOTA

Abstract

The non-destructive whole rock EDXRF analysis here of source standards from the Lien Sunrise and Chicago iron mines and the Beach Paleoindian Cache in North Dakota indicate a good statistical correlation between the source rocks and the archaeological ochre (hematite) from the cache. An analytical trajectory of parametric and non-parametric multivariate and graphical statistical procedures was employed to determine source provenance (see Baxter 1994; Johnson and Wichern 1998; Shennan 1997; c.f. Zarzycka et al. 2019).


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