A preliminary petrographic analysis of Cypriot White Slip II ware

Archaeometry

Volumn 42, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 109-118

  Gomez, B ^a   Doherty, C ^b  

^a INDIANA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Bronze age; Ceramics; Copper mining; Cyprus; Hydrothermal clay; Petrography; Scanning electron microscopy; Wavelength dispersive analysis; White slip ware

Indexed keywords

EID: 0034131598     PISSN: 0003813X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1475-4754.2000.tb00869.x     Document Type: Article

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