Adhesive production and pottery function during the Iron Age at the site of grand aunay (Sarthe, France)

Archaeometry

Volumn 45, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 101-120

  Regert, M ^a   Vacher, S ^b   Moulherat, C ^a   Decavallas, O ^a  

^a CENTRE DE RECHERCHE ET DE RESTAURATION DES MUSÉES DE FRANCE   (France)

^b INRAP Base de Longèves   (France)

Author keywords

Adhesive; Beeswax; Birch bark tar; France; Gas chromatography; Iron age; Mass spectrometry; Pottery; Textile fabric

Indexed keywords

ARCHAEOLOGICAL EVIDENCE; CERAMICS; IRON AGE; MANUFACTURING;

FRANCE;

EID: 0041738096     PISSN: 0003813X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1475-4754.00098     Document Type: Article

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