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RAPID CHEMICAL CHARACTERIZATION OF OBSIDIAN ARTIFACTS BY ELECTRON MICROPROBE ANALYSIS
Author(s) -
MERRICK H. V.,
BROWN F. H.
Publication year - 1984
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.1475-4754.1984.tb00337.x
Subject(s) - electron microprobe , characterization (materials science) , microprobe , mineralogy , geology , materials science , archaeology , nanotechnology , geography
The potential of the electron microprobe to analyse chemically obsidian artifacts for source provenance studies is demonstrated using artifacts from four archaeological sites in Kenya.