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THERMOLUMINESCENT DATING OF EGYPTIAN PREDYNASTIC POTTERY FROM HEMAMIEH AND QURNA‐TARIF
Author(s) -
WHITTLE E. H.
Publication year - 1975
Publication title -
archaeometry
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.716
H-Index - 67
eISSN - 1475-4754
pISSN - 0003-813X
DOI - 10.1111/j.1475-4754.1975.tb00124.x
Subject(s) - pottery , archaeology , thermoluminescence , settlement (finance) , quartz , geology , ancient history , geography , history , materials science , paleontology , optoelectronics , luminescence , world wide web , computer science , payment
Eight sherds from Hemamieh and two from Qurna‐Tarif, both Predynastic settlement sites in the Nile valley, have been dated by the thermoluminescence method (quartz inclusion technique). The results put the Badarian phase at Hemamieh in the sixth and fifth millenium b.c. , and the Gerzean phase in the first half of the fourth millenium b.c. The dates for the village of Qurna‐Tarif fall around 4000 b.c.