Archaeometric study of shells of helicidae from the Edera cave (Northeastern Italy)

Archaeometry

Volumn 51, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 151-173

  Bonizzoni, L ^a   Bruni, Silvia ^a   Girod, A ^b   Guglielmi, V ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MILAN   (Italy)

^b Laboratorio di Malacologia Applicata   (Italy)

Author keywords

Alimentation; Ederacave; Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy; Helicidae; Mesolithic; X ray diffraction

Indexed keywords

ARCHAEOLOGY; BIOSTRATIGRAPHY; CHEMICAL ANALYSIS; FTIR SPECTROSCOPY; MESOLITHIC; SHELL; SNAIL; X-RAY DIFFRACTION;

EDERA CAVE; EURASIA; EUROPE; FRIULI-VENEZIA GIULIA; ITALY; SOUTHERN EUROPE; TRIESTE [FRIULI-VENEZIA GIULIA];

HELICIDAE; HELIX CINCTA;

EID: 58549106806     PISSN: 0003813X     EISSN: 14754754     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1475-4754.2008.00412.x     Document Type: Article

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