Micro-PIXE geochemical fingerprinting of nephrite neolithic artifacts from southwest bulgaria

Geoarchaeology

Volumn 27, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 457-469

  Kostov, Ruslan I ^a   Protochristov, Christo ^b   Stoyanov, Chavdar ^b   Csedreki, László ^c   Simon, Alíz ^c   Szikszai, Zita ^c   Uzonyi, Imre ^c   Gaydarska, Bisserka ^d   Chapman, John ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINING AND GEOLOGY   (Bulgaria)

^b INSTITUTE FOR NUCLEAR RESEARCH AND NUCLEAR ENERGY   (Bulgaria)

^c INSTITUTE OF NUCLEAR RESEARCH ATOMKI   (Hungary)

^d DURHAM UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTIFACT; ELECTRON PROBE ANALYSIS; ELECTRON SPIN RESONANCE; GEOCHEMISTRY; MINERALOGY; NEOLITHIC; PREHISTORIC; TREMOLITE;

BULGARIA;

EID: 84864819792     PISSN: 08836353     EISSN: 15206548     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/gea.21417     Document Type: Article

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