Microelement analysis of source of raw materials of terracotta warriors and horses of Qin’s Mausoleum in pits No. 1 and No. 2 |
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| Authors: | Weijuan Zhao Aijun Xu Rongwu Li Zhengyao Gao Guoxia Li Jianzhong Xie Guohe Han Songlin Feng Dongyu Fan Ying Zhang Zhifang Cai Zhongli Zhang Junxiao Zhu |
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| Institution: | (1) Faculty of Physical Engineering, Zhengzhou University, 450052 Zhengzhou, China;(2) Department of Physics, Beijing Normal University, 100875 Beijing, China;(3) High Energy Physics Institute, The Chinese Academy of Sciences, 100080 Beijing, China;(4) Museum of the Terracotta Warriors and Horses of Qin Shihuang’s Mausoleum, 710600 Xi’an, China |
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| Abstract: | In order to search for sources of the raw material of the Qin’s terracotta warriors and horses, we selected 20 samples of
pottery warriors and pottery horses of the Qin’s Mausoleum from pit No. 1, 19 samples of pottery warriors and brick from pit
No. 2, 20 samples of clays near the Qin’s Mausoleum and 2 samples of Yaozhou porcelain bodies. The 32 kinds of element content
of each sample were measured by neutron activation analysis (NAA). These data were analyzed by fuzzy cluster analysis, the
trend cluster analysis diagram was obtained. The results showed that samples of terracotta warriors and horses from pits No.1
and No. 2 were closely related to the loam layer near Qin’s Mausoleum, but their relations with the loess layers were not
so close, and they were out of all relation to Yaozhou porcelain bodies. Thus, it could be deduced that the Li Mountain clay
may be considered as the original place of the raw materials of the terracotta warriors and horses, the kiln sites might be
located nearby the Qin’s Mausoleum. |
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| Keywords: | fuzzy cluster analysis terracotta warriors and horses of Qin’ s Mausoleum the original place of raw material neutron activation analysis microelement analysis |
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