On the provenance and manufacture of red-slipped fine ware from ancient Cassope (NW Greece): Evidence by X-ray analytical methods

Journal of Archaeological Science

Volumn 37, Issue 9, 2010, Pages 2146-2154

  Papachristodoulou, Christina ^a   Gravani, Konstantina ^a   Oikonomou, Artemios ^a   Ioannides, Kostas ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF IOANNINA   (Greece)

Author keywords

Composition; Firing temperature; Multivariate statistics; Pottery; SEM EDX; Surface slip; Technology; XRD; XRF

Indexed keywords

CERAMICS; MINERALOGY; MORPHOLOGY; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; X-RAY DIFFRACTION;

EID: 77954242834     PISSN: 03054403     EISSN: 10959238     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jas.2010.02.013     Document Type: Article

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