Striking the balance: The roles of petrography and geochemistry in stone axe studies in Ireland

Archaeometry

Volumn 39, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 289-308

  Mandal, S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE DUBLIN   (Ireland)

Author keywords

Axe; Britain; Cornwall; Gabbro; Ireland; Macroscopic identification; Microscopic identification; Neolithic; Source; Spidergrams; Stone; X Ray diffraction; X Ray fluorescence

Indexed keywords

EID: 0040562728     PISSN: 0003813X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1475-4754.1997.tb00807.x     Document Type: Article

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