Archaeomagnetism, methodology and applications: Implentation and practice of the archeomagnetic method in France and Bulgaria

European Journal of Archaeology

Volumn 2, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 365-392

  Lanos, Philippe ^a,d   Kovacheva, Mary ^b,e   Chauvin, Annick ^c,d  

^a CNRS   (France)

^b BULGARIAN ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (Bulgaria)

^c UNIVERSITÉ DE RENNES 1   (France)

^d UNIVERSITÉ DE RENNES 1   (France)

^e NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF GEOPHYSICS   (Bulgaria)

Author keywords

Archaeomagnetism; Baked clay; Bayesian approach for calculating dates; French and Bulgarian databases; Induration; Magnetic anisotropy; Secular variation of the geomagnetic field; Smoothing techniques of magnetic reference curves

Indexed keywords

EID: 0011641949     PISSN: 14619571     EISSN: 17412722     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/146195719900200305     Document Type: Article

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