Provenance of obsidian excavated from late Chalcolithic levels at the sites of Tell Hamoukar and Tell Brak, Syria

Archaeometry

Volumn 51, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 879-893

  Khalidi, L ^a   Gratuze, B ^b   Boucetta, S ^b  

^a UNIVERSITÉ CÔTE D'AZUR   (France)

^b UNIVERSITÉ D'ORLÉANS   (France)

Author keywords

Geochemical analyses; LA ICP MS; Late chalcolithic; Northern mesopotamia; Obsidian; Syria; Tell brak; Tell hamoukar; X ray fluorescence

Indexed keywords

ARCHAEOLOGY; CHRONOLOGY; DATA ACQUISITION; GEOCHEMISTRY; HOLOCENE; MASS SPECTROMETRY; OBSIDIAN; PROVENANCE; X-RAY FLUORESCENCE;

LAKE VAN; MESOPOTAMIA; SYRIAN ARAB REPUBLIC; TURKEY;

EID: 77955174268     PISSN: 0003813X     EISSN: 14754754     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1475-4754.2009.00459.x     Document Type: Article

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