Article ID | Journal | Published Year | Pages | File Type |
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1038743 | Journal of Cultural Heritage | 2008 | 7 Pages |
Abstract
The patina of the most recent statuettes presents a stratigraphy which can be related to successive uses of the objects for ritual purposes, and the results are in agreement with the ethnological reports. For the Tellem objects, the significant quantity of minerals and the lack of stratigraphy suggest that the patina was deposited according to a different recipe. This difference suggests the existence of a diversity of rituals that are more extensive than that described by the ethnologists.
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Authors
Vincent Mazel, Pascale Richardin, Delphine Debois, David Touboul, Marine Cotte, Alain Brunelle, Philippe Walter, Olivier Laprévote,