RECONSTRUCTING ANCIENT YEMENI COMMERCIAL ROUTES DURING THE MIDDLE AGES USING STRUCTURAL CHARACTERIZATION OF TERPENOID RESINS*

Regert, Martine; Devièse, Thibaut; Solenn Le Hô, Anne; Rougeulle, Axelle

doi:10.1111/j.1475-4754.2007.00372.x

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RECONSTRUCTING ANCIENT YEMENI COMMERCIAL ROUTES DURING THE MIDDLE AGES USING STRUCTURAL CHARACTERIZATION OF TERPENOID RESINS*

Published in Archaeometry • Feb 16, 2008

Authors:

Martine Regert

Thibaut Devièse

Anne Solenn Le Hô

Abstract

Following the discovery of items that look like resins at the medieval site of Sharma (Hadramawt coast, Yemen, c. 11th century ad ), chemical investigations were carried out in order to determine their nature and geographic origin. By combining visual observation, infrared spectroscopy, direct inlet...

Subject

Gas chromatography

Mass spectrometry

Terpenoid

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