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A provenance study of ceramics from Final Bronze Age sites in Corsica using non-destructive pXRF analysis (2016)
DOCUMENT Citation Only Aurelien Tafani. Robert H. Tykot. Kewin Peche-Quilichini.

This paper presents the results of a study of Final Bronze Age ceramics in Corsica, which took place during summer 2015. More than three hundred sherds from six different sites were analyzed using a non-destructive technology, XRF (X-ray fluorescence), to identify trace elements. The use of a hand-held device allowed the archaeometric study in situ of collections preserved in the Sartene museum, which could not have been removed and sent for analysis otherwise, and their comparison with...