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In defence of lead isotope analysis

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2015

M. S. Tite
M. S. Tite*
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Research Laboratory for Archaeology and the History of Art, 6 Keble Road, Oxford OX1 3QJ, England
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The head of the Oxford University Research Laboratory for Archaeology and the History of Art takes issue with comment on archaeometallurgical work at Oxford made in ANTIQUITY earlier in the year.

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Antiquity , Volume 70 , Issue 270 , December 1996 , pp. 959 - 962
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Copyright © Antiquity Publications Ltd. 1996

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