Investigation of Iron Age north-eastern Scottish glass beads using element analysis with LA-ICP-MS

Journal of Archaeological Science

Volumn 38, Issue 10, 2011, Pages 2750-2766

  Bertini, Martina ^a   Shortland, Andrew ^b   Milek, Karen ^a   Krupp, Eva M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ABERDEEN   (United Kingdom)

^b CRANFIELD UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Beads; Colour recipes; Glass; Iron age Scotland; LA ICP MS; Provenance

Indexed keywords

ARCHAEOLOGICAL EVIDENCE; CHEMICAL COMPOSITION; GLASS; HOMOGENEITY; INDUCTIVELY COUPLED PLASMA METHOD; IRON AGE; PROVENANCE; TRACE ELEMENT;

SCOTLAND; UNITED KINGDOM;

EID: 80051802948     PISSN: 03054403     EISSN: 10959238     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jas.2011.06.019     Document Type: Article

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