Abstract
In the northern Golan Heights, which is built up from volcanic ejections, paleolithic artifacts are found embedded between basalt flows, and in other stratified ejecta. The archaeological objective is to describe the styles of artifacts which belong to particular cultures, which means particular periods. This can be done if different rock stratigraphic units can be mapped in areas where the exposures of strata are not continuous. The present study made use of neutron activation analysis (NAA) to map flows by their chemical compositions. It was found that there is no difficulty in telling one rock unit from another. In addition, it was possible to show that some aspects of earlier geological mapping were deficient or faulty.
| Original language | English |
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| Pages (from-to) | 89-99 |
| Number of pages | 11 |
| Journal | Archaeometry |
| Volume | 28 |
| Issue number | 1 |
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| State | Published - Feb 1986 |