Read full paper at: http://www.scirp.org/journal/PaperInformation.aspx?PaperID=52973#.VK8sn8nQrzE Author(s) Alessandro Buccolieri 1* , Gianluca Bozzetti 2 , Antonio Serra 2 , Daniela Manno 1 , Isabella Caneva 3 , Federico Manuelli 3 Affiliation(s) 1 Dipartimento di Scienze e Tecnologie Biologiche e Ambientali, Università del Salento, Lecce, Italy . 2 Dipartimento di Beni Culturali, Università del Salento, Lecce, Italy . 3 Dipartimento di Scienze dell’Antichità, Sapienza Università di Roma, Roma, Italy . ABSTRACT The purpose of this paper is to present a summary of the application of non-destructive techniques used in a comparative study of eighty pottery fragments of the Chalcolithic period (5000 BC ca.) and Late Bronze Age (1650 - 1200 BC ca.), found in Mersin-Yumuktepe (Southern Turkey) and Arslantepe (Malatya, Eastern Turkey). The use of a scanning electron microscopy, equipped with a system of energy dispersive X-ray spectroscop...
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