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Chronology of construction and occupational phases of Nawamis tombs, Sinai based on OSL dating Cover

Chronology of construction and occupational phases of Nawamis tombs, Sinai based on OSL dating

Open Access
|Dec 2016

Abstract

The Nawamis are sandstone-built circular structures, located at several sites across Southern Sinai, Egypt. They are thought to be family tombs, created by the nomadic people that inhabited the area. Archaeological age estimates fall within the Early to Late Bronze Age. Here an interesting suite of nine OSL dates of three stone pieces has been resulted, from two Nawamis at Gebel Gunna and Ain Khodra fields. Single aliquot regeneration OSL of quartz grains provided the accumulated dose. XRD was used to identify mineralogy of several tombs. Based on the estimated luminescence ages a time span from Early and late Bronze ages is obtained, while some possible later activity, due to partial (re)construction or reuse of tombs, was detected.

Language: English
Page range: 121 - 130
Submitted on: Mar 8, 2016
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Accepted on: Sep 19, 2016
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Published on: Dec 30, 2016
Published by: Sciendo
In partnership with: Paradigm Publishing Services
Publication frequency: 1 issue per year

© 2016 Ioannis Liritzis, Nikolaos Zacharias, Fahad Al-Otaibi, Ioannis Iliopoulos, Christos Katagas, Mossalam Shaltout, published by Sciendo
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