Pliocene clays from Aegina (Greece): Reference material for chemical provenance studies on Bronze Age pottery from the island

Geoarchaeology

Volumn 19, Issue 6, 2004, Pages 553-564

  Hein, Anno ^a   Mommsen, Hans ^b   Zender, Guido ^b  

^a INSTITUTE OF MATERIALS SCIENCE   (Greece)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BONN   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARCHAEOLOGY; BRONZE AGE; CERAMICS; CHEMICAL ANALYSIS; CLAY; PLIOCENE; PROVENANCE;

GREECE;

EID: 4644305097     PISSN: 08836353     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/gea.20010     Document Type: Article

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