Estimating the approximate firing temperature of burnt archaeological sediments through an unmixing algorithm applied to hysteresis data

Physics of the Earth and Planetary Interiors

Volumn 147, Issue 2-3 SPEC.ISS., 2004, Pages 197-207

  Linford, Niel ^a,b   Platzman, E ^b  

^a ENGLISH HERITAGE   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Archaeology; Hysteresis; IRM acquisition curves; Temperature estimation; Unmixing algorithm

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; ARCHAEOMAGNETISM; BURNING; DATING METHOD; HYSTERESIS; SEDIMENT ANALYSIS; TEMPERATURE;

EID: 5144231844     PISSN: 00319201     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.pepi.2004.06.007     Document Type: Article

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