The Ben Lawers historic landscape project: Simultaneous multi-element analysis of former settlement and arable soils by X-ray fluorescence spectrometry

Journal of Archaeological Method and Theory

Volumn 17, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 231-248

  Abrahams, Peter W ^a   Entwistle, Jane A ^b   Dodgshon, Robert A ^a  

^a ABERYSTWYTH UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b NORTHUMBRIA UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Ben Lawers Historic Landscape Project; Discriminant analysis; Simultaneous multi element soil analysis; X ray fluorescence spectrometry

Indexed keywords

EID: 77954954948     PISSN: 10725369     EISSN: 15737764     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10816-010-9086-8     Document Type: Article

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