Rectangular beads from the final gravettian level of the Abri Pataud: raw material identification and its archaeological implications
- The Final Gravettian level (level 2) of the abri Pataud (Dordogne, France) yielded a large assemblage of body ornaments that consists essentially of 85 quite standardized rectangular beads. Some uncertainty remained about the raw material in which these small beads were made: mammoth ivory, reindeer antler or bone? Non-invasive methods were employed in order to determine the raw material. First chemical analyses using microbeam Proton Induced X-ray Emission analysis (microPIXE) did not enable us to conclude definitively. Therefore, synchrotron and laboratory X-ray microtomography (microCT) were applied on eight beads and allowed us to identify ivory for all of them except for one, which shows slightly different morphological features.
Autor*innen: | C. Vercoutère, K. Müller, L. Chiotti, R. Nespoulet, Andreas Staude, Heinrich Riesemeier, I. Reiche |
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Dokumenttyp: | Zeitschriftenartikel |
Veröffentlichungsform: | Verlagsliteratur |
Sprache: | Englisch |
Titel des übergeordneten Werkes (Englisch): | ArcheoSciences : revue d'archéométrie |
Jahr der Erstveröffentlichung: | 2011 |
Verlag: | Presses Univ. de Rennes |
Verlagsort: | Rennes |
Jahrgang/Band: | 35 |
Erste Seite: | 259 |
Letzte Seite: | 271 |
Freie Schlagwörter: | Abri Pataud; Final Gravettian; Gravettien final; Ivoire de mammouth; Mammoth ivory; MicroCT; MicroPIXE; Perles rectangulaires; Rectangular beads |
ISSN: | 1960-1360 |
Verfügbarkeit des Dokuments: | Datei im Netzwerk der BAM verfügbar ("Closed Access") |
Datum der Freischaltung: | 19.02.2016 |
Referierte Publikation: | Nein |