Characterization of green copper phase pigments in Egyptian artifacts with X-ray absorption spectroscopy and principal components analysis

Spectrochimica Acta - Part B Atomic Spectroscopy

Volumn 63, Issue 11, 2008, Pages 1283-1289

  Lau, Deborah ^a   Kappen, Peter ^b   Strohschnieder, Marika ^c   Brack, Narelle ^b   Pigram, Paul J ^b  

^a CSIRO   (Australia)

^b LA TROBE UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^c National Gallery of Victoria   (Australia)

Author keywords

Egyptian pigments; Exploratory analysis; PCA; XANES

Indexed keywords

ABSORPTION; ABSORPTION SPECTROSCOPY; COPPER; DATA STRUCTURES; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE ABSORPTION; ENERGY ABSORPTION; FILE ORGANIZATION; MINERALS; PAINT; PIGMENTS; X RAY ABSORPTION; X RAY ABSORPTION SPECTROSCOPY; X RAY ANALYSIS; X RAY SPECTROSCOPY;

ALTERNATIVE APPROACHES; ARCHEOMETRY; CULTURAL HERITAGES; DATA PROJECTIONS; EDGE STRUCTURE SPECTROSCOPIES; EGYPTIAN PIGMENTS; EGYPTIANS; EXPLORATORY ANALYSIS; GREEN PIGMENTS; PCA; PRINCIPAL COMPONENTS; PRINCIPAL COMPONENTS ANALYSES; REFERENCE MATERIALS; REFERENCE SETS; TRAINING SETS; XANES;

PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS;

EID: 56349088829     PISSN: 05848547     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.sab.2008.09.013     Document Type: Article

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