Chemical and mineralogical examination of metallurgical ceramics from a Late Bronze Age copper smelting site in Cyprus

Journal of Archaeological Science

Volumn 34, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 141-154

  Hein, Anno ^a   Kilikoglou, Vassilis ^a   Kassianidou, Vasiliki ^b  

^a INSTITUTE OF MATERIALS SCIENCE   (Greece)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CYPRUS   (Cyprus)

Author keywords

Ancient refractory ceramics; Neutron activation analysis; Scanning electron microscopy; X ray diffraction

Indexed keywords

ARCHAEOLOGICAL EVIDENCE; BRONZE AGE; CERAMICS; COPPER; METALLURGY; NEUTRON ACTIVATION ANALYSIS; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; SMELTING; X-RAY DIFFRACTION;

ASIA; CYPRUS; EURASIA; MIDDLE EAST; NICOSIA [CYPRUS]; POLITIKO PHORADES;

EID: 33749459647     PISSN: 03054403     EISSN: 10959238     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jas.2006.04.005     Document Type: Article

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