Portable x-ray fluorescence analysis of rock art pigments

Plains Anthropologist

Volumn 50, Issue 195, 2005, Pages 277-283

  Newman, Bonita ^a   Loendorf, Lawrence ^a  

^a NEW MEXICO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Pigment; Rock art; X ray fluorescence

Indexed keywords

EID: 33645513038     PISSN: 00320447     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1179/pan.2005.025     Document Type: Article

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