Technology transfer at the periphery of the Mycenaean world: The cases of Mycenaean pottery found in Central Macedonia (Greece) and the plain of Sybaris (Italy)

Archaeometry

Volumn 45, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 263-284

  Garrigós, J Buxeda I ^a   Jones, R E ^b   Kilikoglou, V ^a   Levi, S T ^c   Maniatis, Y ^a   Mitchell, J ^d   Vagnetti, L ^e   Wardle, K A ^f   Andreou, S ^g  

^a INSTITUTE OF MATERIALS SCIENCE   (Greece)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW   (United Kingdom)

^c Universita degli Studi Suor Orsola Benincasa   (Italy)

^d CNR ^*  (United Kingdom)

^e CNR   (Italy)

^f UNIVERSITY OF BIRMINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

^g ARISTOTLE UNIVERSITY OF THESSALONIKI   (Greece)

Author keywords

Central Macedonia; Firing technology; Mycenaean pottery; Neutron activation analysis; Optical microscopy; Pigments; Scanning electron microscopy; Southern Italy; X ray diffraction

Indexed keywords

ARCHAEOLOGY; CERAMICS; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; X-RAY DIFFRACTION;

GREECE; ITALY;

EID: 0037932729     PISSN: 0003813X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1475-4754.00108     Document Type: Article

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