Chemical fingerprinting of whitewares from Nanwa site of the Chinese Erlitou state

Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research, Section B: Beam Interactions with Materials and Atoms

Volumn 266, Issue 11, 2008, Pages 2614-2622

  Li, Bao Ping ^a   Liu, Li ^b   Zhao, Jian Xin ^a   Chen, Xing Can ^c   Feng, Yue Xing ^a   Han, Guo He ^d   Zhu, Jun Xiao ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

^b LA TROBE UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^c CHINESE ACADEMY OF SOCIAL SCIENCES   (China)

^d ZHENGZHOU UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Ding kilns; Erlitou; Gongxian kilns; ICP MS; Provenance study; Sr isotopic ratio

Indexed keywords

CHEMICAL PROPERTIES; CLAY; GEOCHEMISTRY; INDUCTIVELY COUPLED PLASMA MASS SPECTROMETRY; ISOTOPES; KAOLINITE;

DING KILNS; GONGXIAN KILNS; ISOTOPIC RATIOS; KAOLINIC CLAYS;

STRONTIUM;

EID: 44449085310     PISSN: 0168583X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.nimb.2008.03.202     Document Type: Article

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