Birch-bark tar at Neolithic Makriyalos, Greece

Antiquity

Volumn 76, Issue 294, 2002, Pages 962-967

  Urem Kotsou, Dushka ^a   Stern, Ben ^a   Heron, Carl ^a   Kotsakis, Kostas ^a  

^a ARISTOTLE UNIVERSITY OF THESSALONIKI   (Greece)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BRADFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Birch bark tar; Gas chromatography mass spectrometry; Greece; Late Neolithic; Makriyalos

Indexed keywords

TAR;

EID: 0036930518     PISSN: 0003598X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0003598X00091766     Document Type: Article

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