The Early Bronze Age settlement of Fidvár, Vráble (Slovakia): Reconstructing prehistoric settlement patterns using portable XRF

Journal of Archaeological Science

Volumn 40, Issue 7, 2013, Pages 2942-2960

  Gauss, Roland K ^a   Batora J ^b   Nowaczinski, Erich ^c   Rassmann, Knut ^d   Schukraft, Gerd ^c  

^a FRAUNHOFER INSTITUTE FOR SILICATE RESEARCH ISC   (Germany)

^b INSTITUTE OF CHEMISTRY   (Slovakia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

^d GERMAN ARCHAEOLOGICAL INSTITUTE   (Germany)

Author keywords

AAS; Activity areas; Anthropogenic sediments; Augering; Geomagnetic prospection; ICP OES; PXRF; Simultaneous multi element soil analysis; Soil chemistry; Survey

Indexed keywords

ANTHROPOGENIC SOURCE; ARCHAEOLOGICAL EVIDENCE; ARCHAEOLOGY; ATOMIC ABSORPTION SPECTROSCOPY; BRONZE AGE; CHEMICAL ANALYSIS; HUMAN SETTLEMENT; PREHISTORIC; SOIL ANALYSIS; SOIL CHEMISTRY; X-RAY FLUORESCENCE;

NITRIANSKY; SLOVAKIA; VRABLE;

EID: 84876443509     PISSN: 03054403     EISSN: 10959238     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jas.2013.01.029     Document Type: Article

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