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Archaeometry, EarlyView.Abstract Trade between Mesopotamia and the Indus Civilization is studied through the analysis of Early Dynastic III Period (2600–2350 BCE) carnelian beads from the site of Kish, Iraq. Morphological and technological features of the beads are compared with beads from the Indus region.
J. Mark Kenoyer +2 more
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MineralogiaChert, a primarily silica-bearing sedimentary rock, is often found in limited layers within the Earth's lithosphere. Optical microscopy, X-ray diffraction, major and trace element analyses were used to study chert samples from Gebel El-Khashab—an ...
Hassan Kamaleldin M.
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, 2002 Site 1216 (21°27.16´N, 139°28.79´W; 5152 meters below sea level [mbsl]; Fig. F1) is situated in abyssal hill topography south of the Molokai Fracture Zone and two small associated unnamed parasitic fracture zones (Fig. F2).
Backman, J. +27 more
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Archaeometry, EarlyView.Abstract This study examines the continuity and change in harvesting practices between the Late Pre‐Pottery Neolithic B (LPPNB) and the Early Pottery Neolithic at Qminas, north‐western Levant, through a traceological analysis of flint sickles. By combining qualitative traceological analysis with quantitative functional approaches, we demonstrate that ...
Fiona Pichon +3 more
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Archaeometry, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This paper examines transport amphorae of Greek/Aegean types from the 7th–4th c. BCE imported to the Phoenician coastal settlement of Tell el‐Burak, Lebanon. We present a selection of 58 pieces analyzed by typological, chemical (NAA), and petrographic approaches.
Maximilian Rönnberg +3 more
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New data about Cenomanian and Turonian chert from the Charente basin (France)
Journal of Lithic Studies, 2014 Prehistoric studies in lithic raw materials have experienced some methodological innovations that have resulted in research breakthroughs. The transfer of methods from Geology to Archaeology has led to the development of a new discipline, Petroarcheology,
Mar Rey-Solé +2 more
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Climatic and eustatic controls on the development of a Late Triassic source rock in the Jameson Land Basin, East Greenland [PDF]
, 2014 This work was undertaken as part of the continuing work of CASP in East Greenland. The sponsoring companies are thanked for their continued support of this work. Help in the field by T. Kinnaird and useful discussions with A.
Andrews, Steven D. +3 more
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The Sedimentary Origin of Black and White Banded Cherts of the Buck Reef, Barberton, South Africa
Geosciences, 2019 The Buck Reef is a 250−400 m thick sequence of banded black and white (B&W) cherts deposited ca. 3416 Ma ago in a shallow basin. We provide field, petrological and geochemical constraints on the chert-forming process and the origin of the ...
Morgane Ledevin +4 more
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Geologija, 2017 The village of Crngrob (central Slovenia) is known to geologists for the silicifid fossils found in the thick soil covering the “Amphiclina beds”, a Carnian lithostratigraphic unit of the Mesozoic Slovenian Basin.
Luka Gale +4 more
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Archaeological Survey Investigations of Private Land within the boundaries of the proposed Lower Bois d’Arc Creek Reservoir Project, Fannin County, Texas [PDF]
, 2016 At the request of a private landowner that has property within the boundaries of the proposed Lower Bois d’Arc Creek Reservoir in Fannin County, we completed volunteer archaeological survey investigations on a portion of this tract of private land on ...
Cheatwood, Gary W. +3 more
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