Provenance of temper in a New Kingdom Egyptian pottery sherd: Evidence from the petrology and mineralogy of basalt fragments

Geoarchaeology - An International Journal

Volumn 13, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 391-410

  Mallory Greenough, Leanne M ^a   Greenough, John D ^b   Owen, J Victor ^c  

^a OKANAGAN UNIVERSITY COLLEGE   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^c SAINT MARY S UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTIFACT; BASALT; CHEMICAL COMPOSITION; CRYSTALLIZATION; IGNEOUS ROCK; MAFIC ROCK; MARL; MINERALOGY; PETROLOGY; PROVENANCE; TEMPERATURE EFFECT;

BOEOTIA; CAIRO [EGYPT]; CENTRAL GREECE; EGYPT; GREECE; LUXOR [EGYPT]; THIVA;

EID: 0001222961     PISSN: 08836353     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1520-6548(199804)13:4<391::AID-GEA3>3.0.CO;2-Y     Document Type: Article

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