The technological development of stonepaste ceramics from the Islamic Middle East

Journal of Archaeological Science

Volumn 38, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 570-580

  Tite, M S ^a   Wolf, S ^b   Mason, R B ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^c DEPARTMENT OF NATURAL HISTORY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Ceramics; Egypt; Energy dispersive spectrometry; Iran; Islamic; Microstructure; Scanning electron microscopy; Stonepaste; Syria; Technology; Turkey; Uzbekistan

Indexed keywords

ARCHAEOLOGY; CERAMICS; CHEMICAL COMPOSITION; INDUSTRIAL PRODUCTION; ISLAMISM; MICROSTRUCTURE; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; TECHNOLOGICAL DEVELOPMENT;

MIDDLE EAST;

EID: 78650309959     PISSN: 03054403     EISSN: 10959238     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jas.2010.10.011     Document Type: Article

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