Identification of post-depositional chemical alteration of ceramics from the north coast of Papua New Guinea (Sanduan province) By time-of-flight-laser ablation-inductively coupled plasma-mass spectrometry (TOF-LA-ICP-MS)

Archaeometry

Volumn 54, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 80-100

  Golitko, M ^a   Dudgeon, J V ^b   Neff, H ^c   Terrell, J E ^a  

^a FIELD MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY   (United States)

^b IDAHO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Barium; Papua New Guinea; Post burial chemical alteration; Pottery; TOF LA ICP MS

Indexed keywords

ARCHAEOLOGY; BARIUM; CERAMICS; CHEMICAL ALTERATION; CHEMICAL COMPOSITION; IDENTIFICATION METHOD; INDUCTIVELY COUPLED PLASMA METHOD; SAMPLING;

PAPUA NEW GUINEA;

EID: 84855454802     PISSN: 0003813X     EISSN: 14754754     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1475-4754.2011.00612.x     Document Type: Article

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