2016/01/01 by Ioannis Liritzis, N. Zacharias, Fahad Alotaibi +3 · 1 citation
Earth and Planetary Sciences · Arts and Humanities · Environmental Science · #Archaeology and ancient environmental studies #Cultural Heritage Materials Analysis #Isotope Analysis in Ecology #Chronology #Archaeology #Thermoluminescence dating #Geology #Optical dating #Optically stimulated luminescence #Bronze Age #Quartz #Bronze #Paleontology #Geography
paper · pdf · doi:10.1515/geochr-2015-0041
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The <i>Nawamis</i> 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 <i>Nawamis</i> 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.