Dating fired-clay ceramics using long-term power law rehydroxylation kinetics

Proceedings of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences

Volumn 465, Issue 2108, 2009, Pages 2407-2415

  Wilson, Moira A ^a   Carter, Margaret A ^a   Hall, Christopher ^b   Hoff, William D ^a   Ince, Ceren ^a   Savage, Shaun D ^a   Mckay, Bernard ^a   Betts, Ian M ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^c MUSEUM OF LONDON ARCHAEOLOGY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Archaeological dating; Brick; Ceramics; Rehydroxylation

Indexed keywords

BRICK; BRICKMAKING; CLAY; CLAY DEPOSITS; CLAY MINERALS; OCEANOGRAPHY; WATER VAPOR;

ARCHAEOLOGICAL DATING; ARCHAEOLOGICAL DEPOSITS; CERAMIC SAMPLES; CERAMICS; CLAY CERAMICS; CLAY MATERIALS; KINETIC CONSTANT; MASS GAIN; MEAN LIFETIME; METEOROLOGICAL DATA; POWER LAW; POWER LAW EXPONENT; REHYDROXYLATION; TIME-SCALE; WATER MASS; WATER VAPOUR;

CERAMIC MATERIALS;

EID: 67749108193     PISSN: 13645021     EISSN: 14712946     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspa.2009.0117     Document Type: Article

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