Pacific obsidian sourcing by portable XRF

Archaeology in Oceania

Volumn 45, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 21-30

  Sheppard, Peter ^a   Trichereau, Barbara ^b   Milicich, Cristany ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AUCKLAND   (New Zealand)

^b NONE   (France)

Author keywords

Geochemistry; Lapita; Obsidian; XRF

Indexed keywords

EID: 77958059705     PISSN: 07284896     EISSN: 18344453     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/j.1834-4453.2010.tb00074.x     Document Type: Article

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