Color, texture, mineralogy, thin-section petrography, and atomic absorption spectrophotometry are used to characterize soapstone samples from several prehistoric quarry sites in Connecticut, Rhode Island, and Massachusetts. Using the petrographic profiles generated by these analyses, the authors attempt to attribute a number of soapstone artifacts from archaeological contexts to their respective quarry source. The encouraging results suggest that a combination of major element analyses and observable characteristics may serve, in at least some cases, to differentiate soapstone sources and their derivative artifacts.