A contribution to the study of post-depositional alterations of pottery using TL dating analysis

Journal of Archaeological Science

Volumn 34, Issue 11, 2007, Pages 1804-1809

  Zacharias, Nikolaos ^a   Schwedt, Alexander ^b   Buxeda i Garrigós, Jaume ^c   Michael, Christodoulos T ^a   Mommsen, Hans ^b   Kilikoglou, Vasilis ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF MATERIALS SCIENCE   (Greece)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BONN   (Germany)

^c ERAUB   (Spain)

Author keywords

Age overestimation; Alteration; Archaeological pottery; K leaching; Luminescence; Over firing; Thermoluminescence

Indexed keywords

ARCHAEOLOGICAL EVIDENCE; LEACHING; LUMINESCENCE DATING; MINERALOGY; NUMERICAL MODEL; POTASSIUM; THERMOLUMINESCENCE;

BALEARIC ISLANDS; EURASIA; EUROPE; MAJORCA; MEDITERRANEAN SEA; SOUTHERN EUROPE; SPAIN;

EID: 34548828008     PISSN: 03054403     EISSN: 10959238     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jas.2006.12.017     Document Type: Article

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