Magnetic susceptibility variations at Mons Claudianus and in Roman columns: A method of provenancing to within a single quarry

Archaeometry

Volumn 38, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 15-41

  Williams Thorpe, O ^a   Jones, M C ^a   Tindle, A G ^a   Thorpe, R S ^a  

^a OPEN UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Columns; Data contouring; Egypt; Granito del foro; Granodiorite; Magnetic susceptibility; Mons Claudianus; Provenancing; Quarry; Roman; Rome; Statistics; Student's t test; Tonalite

Indexed keywords

EID: 0030531655     PISSN: 0003813X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1475-4754.1996.tb00758.x     Document Type: Article

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