Provenancing of archeological pumice finds from North Sinai

Naturwissenschaften

Volumn 97, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 403-410

  Steinhauser, Georg ^a   Sterba, Johannes H ^a   Oren, Eliezer ^b   Foster, Michaela ^a   Bichler, Max ^a  

^a VIENNA UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Austria)

^b BEN GURION UNIVERSITY OF THE NEGEV   (Israel)

Author keywords

Chemical fingerprint; INAA; Pumice; Tephrochronology; Trade

Indexed keywords

ELEMENT; PUMICE; SILICATE;

BRONZE AGE; CHEMICAL ANALYSIS; CHEMICAL COMPOSITION; DNA FINGERPRINTING; GEOCHEMICAL SURVEY; PUMICE; SAMPLING; TEPHROCHRONOLOGY; VOLCANIC ERUPTION; VOLCANIC ROCK;

ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; EGYPT; GREECE; HISTORY; ITALY; SOUTHERN EUROPE; VOLCANO;

EGYPT; ELEMENTS; GREECE; HISTORY, ANCIENT; HISTORY, MEDIEVAL; MEDITERRANEAN ISLANDS; SICILY; SILICATES; VOLCANIC ERUPTIONS;

EGYPT; GREECE; MEDITERRANEAN REGION; SINAI;

EID: 77952094413     PISSN: 00281042     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00114-010-0645-3     Document Type: Article

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