A preliminary archeomagnetic study of prehistoric Amerindian pottery from Venezuela

Interciencia

Volumn 24, Issue 5, 1999, Pages 293-299

  Brandt Rodríguez, María Carmela ^a   Costanzo Álvarez, Vincenzo ^b  

^a Veritas   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSIDAD SIMÓN BOLÍVAR   (Venezuela)

Author keywords

Amerindian pottery; Archeomagnetism; Geomagnetic field; Paleointensity; VADM

Indexed keywords

EID: 0041725512     PISSN: 03781844     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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