Red Palaeolithic pigments: Natural hematite or heated goethite?

Archaeometry

Volumn 41, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 275-285

  Pomies M P ^a,c   Menu, M ^a   Vignaud, C ^a,b  

^a CNRS   (France)

^b Université Pierre et Marie Curie   (France)

^c PSL RESEARCH UNIVERSITY   (France)

Author keywords

France; Goethite; Heat treatment; Hematite; Iron oxides; Pigments; Transmission electron microscopy; Troubat; Upper Palaeolithic; X ray diffraction

Indexed keywords

EID: 0033169262     PISSN: 0003813X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1475-4754.1999.tb00983.x     Document Type: Article

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