The provenance of obsidian artefacts from the wādī ath-thayyilah 3 neolithic site (eastern yemen plateau) by la-icp-ms

Archaeometry

Volumn 54, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 603-622

  Barca, D ^a   Lucarini, G ^b   Fedele, F G ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALABRIA   (Italy)

^b SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NAPLES FEDERICO II   (Italy)

Author keywords

LA ICP MS; Neolithic exchange; Obsidian; SEM EDS; Trace elements; Yemen plateau

Indexed keywords

ARCHAEOLOGY; ARTIFACT; INDUCTIVELY COUPLED PLASMA METHOD; MASS SPECTROMETRY; NEOLITHIC; OBSIDIAN; PROVENANCE; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; TRACE ELEMENT;

INDIAN OCEAN; RED SEA [INDIAN OCEAN];

EID: 84862305001     PISSN: 0003813X     EISSN: 14754754     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1475-4754.2011.00643.x     Document Type: Article

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