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Compositional data analysis of archaeological glass: problems and possible solutions [PDF]

, 2003
Presentation in CODAWORK'03, session 4: Applications to archeometryGeologische Vereinigung; Universitat de Barcelona, Equip de Recerca Arqueomètrica; Institut d’Estadística de Catalunya; International Association for Mathematical Geology; Patronat de l ...
Baxter, MJ, Beardah, CC, Cool, HEM, Jackson, CM   +3 more
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Estimación de edades arqueológicas usando la hidratación de obsidianas: dos fuentes de los andes meridionales [PDF]

, 2016
Obsidian is abundant in archaeological sites throughout Mendoza Province, Argentina but no obsidian hydration rates exist to date these assemblages.
Bettinger, Robert, Carpenter, Tim, Garvey, Raven, Gil, Adolfo Fabian, Neme, Gustavo Adolfo   +4 more
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Obsidianas de San Miguel de Renaico 5 (Araucanía, Chile): Nuevos análisis geoquímicos y datos sobre la distribución de obsidianas en el Sur de Chile

Revista del Museo de Antropologia
En este trabajo se presentan los resultados del análisis geoquímico por fluorescencia de rayos X portátil (pXRF) realizado a 286 piezas de obsidianas del sitio arqueológico San Miguel de Renaico 5 (37,3° S; Araucanía, Chile).
Roberto Campbel, Sebastián Vivanco, Angela Peñaloza, Pablo Salas, Francisco Vergara, Michael Glascock, Brandi Lee MacDonald   +6 more
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Faience: the ceramic technology of ancient Egypt [PDF]

, 2012
Faiences are ancient Egyptian ceramic materials, considered as "high-tech" products. The paper discussed the method by which the faiences were produced and the application of SEM and Raman spectroscopy to their ...
Sparavigna, Amelia Carolina
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Once in a lifetime: the date of the Wayland's Smithy long barrow [PDF]

, 2007
Twenty-three radiocarbon results are now available from the Wayland’s Smithy long barrow, and are presented within an interpretive Bayesian statistical framework.
Bayliss, A, Whittle, A, Wysocki, Michael Peter   +2 more
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Patterns in solar activity over the first millennium CE

Communications Earth & Environment
Radiocarbon (14C) measurements are a powerful tool for reconstructing past solar activity and identifying extreme events caused by bursts of high-energy particles from the Sun.
Jian Wang, Michael W. Dee, Benjamin J. S. Pope, Mathew J. Owens, David Brown, Susanne Lindauer, Kirsten Schwabe, Hannes Knapp, Thorsten Westphal, Ronny Friedrich   +9 more
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Recent palaeoenvironmental evidence for the processing of hemp (Cannabis sativa L.) in eastern England during the medieval period [PDF]

, 2005
[FIRST PARAGRAPH] Hemp (Cannabissativa L.)— whose origins as a domesticated plant probably lie in C.Asia — has been cultivated in England since at least a.d.800 (and before this perhaps in the Roman Period), mainly for its ¿bre, which was used to make ...
Bunting, M.J., Carrott, J., Gearey, B.R., Hall, A.R., Kenward, H., Lillie, M.C.   +5 more
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Refrain from Standards? French, Cavemen and Computers. A (short) Story of Multidimensional Analysis in French Prehistoric Archaeology [PDF]

, 2015
Focusing on the history of prehistoric archaeology in the 20th century, this papers shows (1) that statistical multidimensional analyses were carried out by a new kind of actors who challenged the previous common language shared by prehistorians.
Plutniak, Sébastien
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The Provenance of Marbles and Alabasters Used in the Monuments of Hierapolis in Phrygia (Turkey): New Information from a Systematic Review and Integration of Archaeological and Archaeometric Data

Heritage, 2019
Determining the provenance of the stones used for ancient architectures is very important in order to reconstruct many social and economic questions linked to the life of a city.
Giuseppe Scardozzi
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The Corning Archaeological Reference Glasses: New Values for “Old” Compositions

Papers from the Institute of Archaeology, 2017
The Corning Archaeological Reference Glasses are widely used as standards in the chemical analysis of archaeological and historical glasses, as their compositions were designed to approximate those of major glass types in antiquity.
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