The Sarmizegetusa bracelets

Antiquity

Volumn 84, Issue 326, 2010, Pages 1028-1042

  Constantinescu, Bogdan ^a   Oberländer Târnoveanu, Ernest ^b   Bugoi, Roxana ^a   Cojocaru, Viorel ^a   Radtke, Martin ^c  

^a HORIA HULUBEI NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF PHYSICS AND NUCLEAR ENGINEERING   (Romania)

^b National History Museum of Romania   (Romania)

^c BAM FEDERAL INSTITUTE FOR MATERIALS RESEARCH AND TESTING   (Germany)

Author keywords

Bracelets; Dacian; First century BC; Gold; Hoard; Romania; Sacred centre; Sarmizegetusa; World Heritage Site

Indexed keywords

EID: 78649766723     PISSN: 0003598X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0003598X00067053     Document Type: Article

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