Early Bronze Age tin processing at Kestel/Göltepe, anatolia

Archaeometry

Volumn 38, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 289-303

  Earl, B ^a   Ozbal H ^b  

^a Heathercliffe   (United Kingdom)

^b BOGAZICI UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Atomic absorption spectroscopy; Cassiterite; Early Bronze Age; G ltepe; Kestel; Scanning electron microscopy; Smelting; Smelting experiments; Tin; Turkey; Vanning

Indexed keywords

EID: 0040657458     PISSN: 0003813X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1475-4754.1996.tb00777.x     Document Type: Article

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