Lead isotope analyses from Tell Abraq, United Arab Emirates: New data regarding the 'tin problem' in Western Asia

Antiquity

Volumn 73, Issue 279, 1999, Pages 49-64

  Weeks, Lloyd ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

^b NONE

Author keywords

Arabia; Bronze; Lead isotope analysis; Prehistory; Tell Abraq; Tin; Western Asia

Indexed keywords

ARCHAEOLOGICAL EVIDENCE; HISTORICAL GEOGRAPHY; ISOTOPIC ANALYSIS; LEAD; RESOURCE DEVELOPMENT;

ASIA;

EID: 0032985739     PISSN: 0003598X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0003598X00087834     Document Type: Article

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