Anthropic activity markers and spatial variability: An ethnoarchaeological experiment in a domestic unit of Northern Gujarat (India)

Journal of Archaeological Science

Volumn 41, Issue , 2014, Pages 482-492

  Rondelli, Bernardo ^a   Lancelotti, Carla ^a,b   Madella, Marco ^a,c   Pecci, Alessandra ^d   Balbo, Andrea ^a   Pérez, Javier Ruiz ^d   Inserra, Fernanda ^d   Gadekar, Charusmita ^e   Ontiveros, Miquel Ángel Cau ^c,d   Ajithprasad, P ^e  

^a CSIC   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITAT POMPEU FABRA   (Spain)

^c INSTITUCIÓ CATALANA DE RECERCA I ESTUDIS AVANÇATS ICREA   (Spain)

^d UNIVERSITY OF BARCELONA   (Spain)

^e M S UNIVERSITY OF BARODA   (India)

Author keywords

Anthropic markers; Chemical residues; Ethnoarchaeology; Geostatistics; ICP AES; Spatial interpolation; Spot tests

Indexed keywords

ARCHAEOLOGICAL EVIDENCE; ARCHAEOLOGY; CHEMICAL ANALYSIS; DATA INTERPRETATION; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; GEOSTATISTICS; HUMAN ACTIVITY; HUMAN SETTLEMENT; SPATIAL VARIATION; INDUCTIVELY COUPLED PLASMA METHOD; INTERPOLATION; MARKING METHOD;

GUJARAT; INDIA;

EID: 84885358683     PISSN: 03054403     EISSN: 10959238     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jas.2013.09.008     Document Type: Article

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