Isotopic discriminants between late bronze age glasses from egypt and the near east

Archaeometry

Volumn 52, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 380-388

  Degryse, P ^a   Boyce, A ^b   Erb Satullo, N ^c   Eremin, K ^d   Kirk, S ^e   Scott, R ^e   Shortland, A J ^e   Schneider, J ^a   Walton, M ^f  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

^b SCOTTISH UNIVERSITIES ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH CENTRE   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^d HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e CRANFIELD UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^f GETTY CONSERVATION INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

Egypt; Glass; Late bronze age; Mesopotamia; Oxygen; Strontium and neodymium Isotopic analysis

Indexed keywords

BRONZE AGE; GLASS; ISOTOPIC ANALYSIS; ISOTOPIC RATIO; NEODYMIUM ISOTOPE; OXYGEN ISOTOPE; STRONTIUM ISOTOPE;

EGYPT; MESOPOTAMIA;

EID: 77953755609     PISSN: 0003813X     EISSN: 14754754     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1475-4754.2009.00487.x     Document Type: Article

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