Provenance of obsidian artifacts from site of Colle Cera, Italy, by LA-ICP-MS method

Periodico di Mineralogia

Volumn 77, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 41-42

  Barca, Donatella ^a   De Francesco, Anna Maria ^a   Crisci, Gino Mirocle ^a   Tozzi, Carlo ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALABRIA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PISA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Archaeological artefacts; Colle Cera site; LA ICP MS; Obsidian; Peri Tyrrhenian area; Trace elements

Indexed keywords

EID: 54349093318     PISSN: 03698963     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2451/2008PM0003     Document Type: Article

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