Physical and mineralogical properties of experimentally heated chaff-tempered mud bricks: Implications for reconstruction of environmental factors influencing the appearance of mud bricks in archaeological conflagration events

Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports

Volumn 2, Issue , 2015, Pages 80-93

  Forget, Mathilde C L ^a   Regev, Lior ^a   Friesem, David E ^b   Shahack Gross, Ruth ^a  

^a WEIZMANN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE   (Israel)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Composition; Duration; Firing atmosphere; Heat; Infrared spectroscopy; Mud bricks; Temperature

Indexed keywords

EID: 84922712449     PISSN: 2352409X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jasrep.2015.01.008     Document Type: Article

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