Provenance studies of chalcolithic obsidian artefacts from near lake Urmia, northwestern Iran using WDXRF analysis

Archaeometry

Volumn 52, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 19-30

  Niknami, K A ^a   Amirkhiz, A C ^b   Glascock, M D ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEHRAN   (Iran)

^b Iranian Centre for Archaeological Research (ICAR)   (Iran)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI   (United States)

Author keywords

Lake urmia; Obsidian; Provenance studies; Wdxrf

Indexed keywords

ARCHAEOLOGY; ARTIFACT; OBSIDIAN; PROVENANCE; TRACE ELEMENT; X-RAY FLUORESCENCE;

IRAN; LAKE URMIA; LAKE VAN; TURKEY;

EID: 77953950995     PISSN: 0003813X     EISSN: 14754754     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1475-4754.2009.00474.x     Document Type: Article

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