Red clays from Central and Eastern Crete: Geochemical and mineralogical properties in view of provenance studies on ancient ceramics

Applied Clay Science

Volumn 24, Issue 3-4, 2004, Pages 245-255

  Hein, A ^a   Day, P M ^b   Cau Ontiveros, M A ^b   Kilikoglou, V ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF MATERIALS SCIENCE   (Greece)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Ceramics; Chemical analysis; Chemical variability; Petrography; Red alluvial clays

Indexed keywords

CLAY DEPOSITS; COMPOSITION; MINERALOGY; PETROGRAPHY; SOILS;

POTTERY PRODUCTION; PROVENANCE STUDIES;

CERAMIC MATERIALS;

ARCHAEOLOGICAL EVIDENCE; CERAMICS; CLAY; GEOCHEMISTRY; MINERALOGY; PETROGRAPHY; PROVENANCE;

CRETE; EURASIA; EUROPE; GREECE; SOUTHERN EUROPE;

EID: 1042275442     PISSN: 01691317     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.clay.2003.07.009     Document Type: Article

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