Effect of burial environment on crocodile bones from Hawara excavation, Fayoum, Egypt

Journal of Cultural Heritage

Volumn 12, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 180-189

  Abdel Maksoud, Gomaa ^a   Abdel Hady, Mohamed ^a  

^a Cairo Univ   (Egypt)

Author keywords

Crocodiles bones; Deterioration; FTIR; PH; PLM; SEM; Soil; UV spectrophotometry; XRD

Indexed keywords

EID: 79955742650     PISSN: 12962074     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.culher.2010.12.002     Document Type: Article

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