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Analysis of the Akkadian 'glass' objects from Tell Brakessay 2001 • Brill, Robert & Shell, Colin
Akkadian • Middle East > Middle East
Brill and Shell analyzed the glazed quartz/chalcedony item using energy-dispersive X-ray analysis (EDXA) and a scanning electron microscope (SEM). It resembles small hematite burnishing tools found at Tell Brak....Excavations at Jenné-Jeno, Hambarketolo, and Kaniana (Inland Niger Delta, Mali) : 1994 • McIntosh, Susan Keech et al.
West African Iron Age • Africa > Western Africa
The Inland Niger Delta (IND) site of Jenné-jeno is one of the longest Iron Age sequences in west Africa (250 B.C.-1400 A.D.), reaching its peak settlement density in 900 A.D. The archaeologists carried out a site survey in 1977 and returned in 1980 t...