Provenance study of some obsidians from the Malia Minoan palace (Crete);Détermination de provenance d'une sélection d'obsidiennes du palais minoen de Malia (Crète)

Comptes Rendus - Palevol

Volumn 7, Issue 7, 2008, Pages 419-427

  Bellot Gurlet, Ludovic ^a   Pelon, Olivier ^b   Séfériadès, Michel Louis ^c  

^a UMR 8233 CNRS Université Pierre et Marie Curie   (France)

^b UNIVERSITÉ LUMIÈRE LYON 2   (France)

^c Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique   (France)

Author keywords

Crete; Malia; Minoan; Obsidian; PIXE; Provenance study

Indexed keywords

EXCAVATION; RAW MATERIALS;

ARTIFACT; IDENTIFICATION METHOD; OBSIDIAN; PROVENANCE; VOLCANO;

AEGEAN ISLANDS; CRETE; CYCLADAS; EURASIA; EUROPE; GREECE; GYALI ISLAND; MILOS; SOUTHERN AEGEAN; SOUTHERN EUROPE;

GATTYANA; MALIA;

EID: 53849123970     PISSN: 16310683     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.crpv.2008.07.005     Document Type: Article

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