Shaft-hole axes from caput adriae: Mineralogical and chemical constraints about the provenance of serpentinitic artefacts

Archaeometry

Volumn 53, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 261-284

  Bernardini, F ^a   De Min, A ^b   Eichert, D ^c   Alberti, A ^b   Demarchi, G ^b   Veluscek A ^d   Tuniz, C ^a   Montagnari Kokelj, E ^b  

^a ABDUS SALAM INTERNATIONAL CENTRE FOR THEORETICAL PHYSICS   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TRIESTE   (Italy)

^c SINCROTRONE TRIESTE   (Italy)

^d ANTON MELIK GEOGRAPHICAL INSTITUTE   (Slovenia)

Author keywords

Caput adriae; Copper age; Drava river; Hohe Tauern; Mineralogical; Petrographic and geochemical analyses; Provenance; Serpentinite shaft hole axes

Indexed keywords

ARCHAEOLOGICAL EVIDENCE; ARTIFACT; COPPER; EXPLOITATION; GREENSCHIST FACIES; METALLURGY; MINERALOGY; NEOLITHIC; ORE DEPOSIT; PERIDOTITE; PETROGRAPHY; PREHISTORIC; PROVENANCE; SERPENTINITE; TOOL USE;

CROATIA; DRAU RIVER; ITALY; SLOVENIA;

EID: 79952806212     PISSN: 0003813X     EISSN: 14754754     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1475-4754.2010.00547.x     Document Type: Article

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