The first fake? Imitation turquoise beads recovered from a Syrian neolithic site, tell El-Kerkh

Studies in Conservation

Volumn 47, Issue 3, 2002, Pages 175-183

  Taniguchi, Yoko ^a   Hirao, Yoshimitsu ^b   Shimadzu, Yoshiko ^b   Tsuneki, Akira ^c  

^a Malta Centre for Restoration   (Malta)

^b Independent Administrative Institution National Research Institute for Cultural Properties Tokyo   (Japan)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TSUKUBA   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPOSITION; FOURIER TRANSFORM INFRARED SPECTROSCOPY; HEATING; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; SPECTROPHOTOMETRY; X RAY DIFFRACTION ANALYSIS;

FAKE; IMITATION; MICROX RAY FLUORESCENCE; TURQUOISE BEADS;

MINERALS;

BROSME BROSME; MAMMALIA;

EID: 0038540673     PISSN: 00393630     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1179/sic.2002.47.3.175     Document Type: Article

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