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Table 1 Samples analysed in the present study

From: Defining multiple inhabitations of a cave environment using interdisciplinary archaeometry: the ‘Christmas Cave’ of the Wadi en-Nar/Nahal Qidron, West of the Dead Sea

KLR Lab No

GrA Lab No

QUM No

Field no

Sample description

Analyses performed

KLR-8008

 

430

QCC-007

Ceramic with fat

GC–MS, TS, TL, LA-ICP-MS, XRF, FT, SUS, FTIR, XRD

KLR-8009

 

426

QCC-079

Ceramic with fat

GC–MS, TL, LA-ICP-MS, XRF, SUS, FTIR, XRD

KLR-8010

 

428

QCC-264

Ceramic, blackened

TS, TL, LA-ICP-MS, XRF, FT, SUS, FTIR, XRD

KLR-8011

 

425

QCC

Ceramic, juglet, N trench I

TS, FT, SUS

KLR-8012

 

437

QCC-258

Ceramic, small juglet

GC–MS

KLR-8013

GrA-50530

437a

QCC-221

Dung

C14

KLR-8014

GrA-50531

427

III 1A

Charcoal

C14

KLR-8015

GrA-50532

436

 

Wood

C14

KLR-8016

  

QCC test s

Ceramic

GC–MS, TL, LA-ICP-MS, XRF, SUS, FTIR, XRD

KLR-8852

GrA-53282

 

C1

Cereal grain

C14

KLR-8853

GrA-53271

 

C2

Olive stone

C14

KLR-8854

GrA-53272

 

C3

Date stone

C14

KLR-8855

GrA-53273

 

C4

Reed

C14

KLR-8856

GrA-53274

 

C5

Textile

C14

KLR-8857

  

Frumkin#5

Ceramic

TS, TL, LA-ICP-MS, XRF, FT, SUS, FTIR, XRD

KLR-8858

  

Frumkin#6

Ceramic

TS, TL, LA-ICP-MS, XRF, FT, SUS, FTIR. XRD

KLR-8859

  

Frumkin#7

Ceramic

TS, TL, LA-ICP-MS, XRF, FT, SUS, FTIR, XRD

KLR-8860

  

Frumkin#11

Ceramic

TS, TL, LA-ICP-MS, XRF, FT, SUS, FTIR, XRD

KLR-8861

  

Frumkin#12

Ceramic

TS, TL, LA-ICP-MS, XRF, FT, SUS, FTIR, XRD

KLR-8862

  

Frumkin#15

Ceramic, lamp with soot

TS, TL, LA-ICP-MS, XRF, FT, SUS

KLR-8863

  

Frumkin#16

Ceramic

TS, TL, LA-ICP-MS, XRF, FT, SUS, FTIR, XRD

KLR-12527

  

CC1 soil

Soil from surface

LA-ICP-MS, XRF

KLR-12529

  

CC3 soil

Soil from surface

LA-ICP-MS, XRF

KLR-12530

  

CC4 soil

Soil from surface

LA-ICP-MS, XRF

KLR-12531

  

CC5 soil

Soil from surface

LA-ICP-MS, XRF

  1. “QUM” are EBAF and J. Gunneweg numbers. GC–MS Gas Chromatography Mass Spectrometry, C14 Radiocarbon dating, TS Thin Section – petrographic description, FT Firing Temperature determination, TL Thermoluminescence, XRF X-Ray fluorescence, LA-ICP-MS Laser Ablation Inductively Coupled Plasma Mass Spectrometry, SUS magnetic susceptibility, FTIR Fourier Transform Infrared Spectroscopy, XRD X-ray diffraction