Archaeological reconstruction of medieval lead production: Implications for ancient metal provenance studies and paleopollution tracing by Pb isotopes

Applied Geochemistry

Volumn 24, Issue 11, 2009, Pages 2093-2101

  Baron, Sandrine ^a,b   Le Carlier, Cécile ^c   Carignan, Jean ^b   Ploquin, Alain ^b  

^a Maison de la Recherche   (France)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE LORRAINE   (France)

^c UNIVERSITÉ DE RENNES 1   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FRACTIONATION PROCESS; ISOTOPIC COMPOSITION; ISOTOPIC FRACTIONATIONS; ISOTOPIC RATIOS; LIMITING FACTORS; METAL PRODUCTION; METAL RECYCLING; METALLURGICAL PROCESS; MINING DISTRICT; OPERATING CHAINS; ORE MINING; PB ISOTOPES; PROVENANCE STUDIES; WORKSHOP MATERIALS;

CHEMICAL ANALYSIS; ISOTOPES; LEAD SMELTING; METAL CASTINGS; METALLURGY; METALS; MINERALS; MINING; ORE REDUCTION; ORES; SLAGS; SMOKE;

LEAD;

ARCHAEOLOGICAL EVIDENCE; ISOTOPIC ANALYSIS; ISOTOPIC FRACTIONATION; LEAD ISOTOPE; MEDIEVAL; MINING; PALEOENVIRONMENT; PEAT; RECONSTRUCTION; SMELTING; TRACE METAL;

EID: 70350749413     PISSN: 08832927     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.apgeochem.2009.08.003     Document Type: Article

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