Soil forensics as a tool to test reported artefact find sites

Journal of Archaeological Science

Volumn 41, Issue , 2014, Pages 461-473

  Pirrie, Duncan ^a   Rollinson, Gavyn K ^b   Andersen, Jens C ^b   Wootton, Danielle ^b   Moorhead, Sam ^c  

^a HELFORD GEOSCIENCE LLP   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF EXETER   (United Kingdom)

^c BRITISH MUSEUM   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Automated mineralogy; Coins; Provenancing; SEM EDS; Soil analysis

Indexed keywords

ARCHAEOLOGY; ARTIFACT; IN SITU MEASUREMENT; MINERALOGY; PEDOGENESIS; PROVENANCE; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; SOIL ANALYSIS; FORENSIC SCIENCE;

DEVON; ENGLAND; SOMERSET; UNITED KINGDOM;

EID: 84885337907     PISSN: 03054403     EISSN: 10959238     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jas.2013.09.007     Document Type: Article

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