Radical changes in Islamic glass technology: Evidence for conservatism and experimentation with new glass recipes from early and middle Islamic Raqqa, Syria

Archaeometry

Volumn 46, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 439-468

  Henderson, J ^a   McLoughlin, S D ^b   McPhail, D S ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

^b IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Electron probe microanalysis; Experimentation; First Millennium; Glass; Islamic; Raqqa; Raw materials; Syria; Technology

Indexed keywords

ARCHAEOLOGICAL EVIDENCE; GLASS; INDUSTRIAL PRODUCTION; TECHNOLOGICAL DEVELOPMENT;

ASIA; EURASIA; MIDDLE EAST; SYRIAN ARAB REPUBLIC;

EID: 4644318628     PISSN: 0003813X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1475-4754.2004.00167.x     Document Type: Article

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