Re: A question about archaeolgical sterility of sites with a religious connection.


Eric Stevens a écrit dans le message
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On Sun, 25 Nov 2007 10:26:52 +0100, "Peter Alaca"
<p.alaca@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

BTW, Mark W Holley knws a lot about the
Crannoghs of Islay, but I found no indication
he ever was involved archaeological work on
sacred sites or standing stones.

Apparently he once was but switched to marine archaeology as he found
it more interesting.



Eric Stevens


Don't know the nature of the Towers mortar but here is a tidbit to look at.

For the dating of lime mortar to have any meaning at all the lime binding
material must be completely brunt
(unlikely in homemade or crude mortars) and completely free of limestone or
carbonate aggregates (highly unlikely)

http://www.carbon14.pl/geo/pdf/geo_24/Geo24_15.pdf

http://mysite.du.edu/~jcalvert/phys/carbon.htm

JL




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