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Nails from a 2,400 year old shipwreck: A study of copper in a marine archaeological environment

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  1. S. Shalev (senior scientist and senior lecturer)

    Present address: the Center of Archaeological Sciences, ESER, Weizmann Institute of Science and University of Haifa, Israel

  2. Y. Kahanov (a researcher)

    Present address: the Department of Marine Civilizations, University of Haifa, Israel

  3. C. Doherty

    Present address: the Research Laboratory for Archaeology, University of Oxford, United Kingdom

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    For more information, contact S. Shalev, Center of Archaeological Sciences, ESER, Weizmann Institute of Science, 76100 Rehovot, Israel; email shalev@wis.weizmann.ac.il.

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    Shalev, S., Kahanov, Y. & Doherty, C. Nails from a 2,400 year old shipwreck: A study of copper in a marine archaeological environment. JOM 51, 14–17 (1999). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11837-999-0205-5

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