Chemical ICP-AES data of archeological pottery, Wanna, Germany

This is the measurement data from chemical analysis of archaeological Neolithic pottery using Inductively Coupled Plasma- Atomic Emission Spectrometry (ICP-AES). The pottery came from the sites Wanna 1588, 1591, 1592 and 1594 (district of Cuxhaven, Lower Saxony, Germany) and belongs to the cultural group of the Funnel Beaker culture. The measurements are part of the research projects "Preserved in the bog - relics of prehistoric settlement landscapes in the Elbe-Weser triangle" funded by Niedersachsen Vorab and "Pottery traditions as a mirror of social structures of the 5th and 4th millennium BC in northern Central Europe" funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG project number 438036891). The measurements were carried out by OMAC Laboratories Ltd. in Loughrea, Galway, Ireland. A minimum of 0.5 g of sample material was taken from each sherd. The sample material was grinded to a fine powder and solved in a 4-acid solution. These solutions were injected into an excited argon plasma.