Luminescence dating of pottery from later prehistoric Britain

Archaeometry

Volumn 42, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 431-457

  Barnett, S M ^a  

^a DURHAM UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Britain; Bronze Age; Ceramics; Chronology; England; Iron Age; Luminescence dating; Optically stimulated luminescence; Thermoluminescence; Typology

Indexed keywords

EID: 0034237996     PISSN: 0003813X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1475-4754.2000.tb00892.x     Document Type: Article

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