Vadas Ferenc (szerk.): A Wosinszky Mór Múzeum Évkönyve 15. (Szekszárd, 1990)

Die awarischer Kultur - Márta Balla: Provenance studies of avar ceramics by neutron activation analysis

that they were not produced in these manufactures. In four cases the examination supposed the existence of a third workshop, too. Further on we have analysed samples from the third workshop excavated in the meantime, from cemeteries near Szekszárd, from the Őcsény workshop, from cemeteries near Dunaújváros and Szeged. Our aim was to prove the existence of pottery centres rendered probable by archaeological methods. As a result we can state that the existence of the 3. workshop in Szekszárd is provable, there was a workshop making pottery in Őcsény, too. The products of the 2. and 3. workshops and the Ócsény one regarding their trace element concentrations are in close connection with each other and differ from the 1. workshop of Szekszárd greatly. Near Dunaújváros the activity of another pottery making centre is provable. These products differ strongly from those found near Szekszárd. Workshop near Szeged haven't proved to be true on the basis of the 5 samples investigated. These sherds regarding their chemical composition were related to the products of Dunaújváros workshops. Finally I would like to emphasis that these investigations do not intend to substitute the archaeological examinations, only to help, to controll, to complete its results with another method. We are convinced that objective conclusions of scientific demand can be drawn based on studies principally different but which serve adequate results. NOTES 1. Szabó E., Simonits A.: Aktivációs analízis, Műszaki Könyvkiadó, Budapest, 1973. 2. Ballá M., Bérezi J., Keömley G., Rosner Gy., Gabler D.: Provenance studies of ceramics by neutron activation analysis. Archaeometrical Research in Hungary, National Centre of Museums, Budapest, 1988. pp. 103-119. 133