Interaction and the end of the Late Bronze Age as displayed through neutron activation analysis of Late Helladic sherds: a case study on Asine in the Argolid, Greece

Abstract

This article discusses the results of neutron activation analysis made on a limited number of LH IIIB and LH IIIC period sherds from the Argive settlement Asine, Greece. The analysis indicates that the transformation from the palatial to the post-palatial period, on a local level of a village as Asine, was not signified by loss of contacts with the surrounding world. Rather continuity and interaction prevailed, although with other geographical areas as production and use of pottery in the LH IIIB period apparently had a more regional preponderance. The geographical dominance of pottery assigned to producers in north-eastern Peloponnese and distributed over the Mediterranean was terminated, but other operators may have responded to the demand for pottery.

Caracterização dosimétrica de laboratório de calibração de detectores de nêutrons utilizando método Monte Carlo

“…Na área científica, os nêutrons podem ser utilizados de várias formas, seja para a análise de materiais com a ativação de nêutrons (Sjöberg and Mommsen, 2021), como para a criação de novos materiais, como plásticos, polímeros ou reagentes químicos. Os nêutrons também são ferramentas presentes em estudos relacionados às estruturas cristalina e molecular (Meilleur et al, 2013), física nuclear, estudos de fissão e fusão, entre outros (Rinaldi , 2009).…”