Provenance and technology of bricks from the Greek colony of Kaulon (Calabria, Italy)

Periodico di Mineralogia

Volumn 78, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 37-49

  De Francesco, Anna Maria ^a   Iannelli, Maria Teresa ^b   Barrese, Eugenio ^a   Andaloro, Eliana ^a   Imperitura, Vincenzo G ^a   Bocci, Marco ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALABRIA   (Italy)

^b Museo Archeologico di Monasterace Marina   (Italy)

Author keywords

Bricks; Kaulon; Petrographic analysis; Raw materials; XRD; XRF

Indexed keywords

EID: 73549108710     PISSN: 03698963     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2451/2009PM0011     Document Type: Article

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