Lead isotope ratios for mediterranean ores Notes for full database (medoresall.txt) Data assumed to be repeat analyses or repeat publications of the same sample are grouped together. Seperate data points are separated by a blank line The Oxford group has published a number of 'definitive' lists of analyses of samples from certain regions carried out in their laboratory. These are separated from the main list for that country by two blank lines, they are not included in the main section for each country. The Turkish samples from the Taurus mountain region have a group description attached to the location (e.g. '2A', or 'outlier') These groups are statistical entities constructed by the authors of the papers. They have no geographical meaning An edited version of the database is avaliable (medoresedit.txt) Data is from publications up to 1997 Key to references: Key Author Year Title Source 1 Graeser, S. & G. 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Gale 1980 Early Bronze Age lead-silver mining and metallurgy in the Aegean: the ancient workings on Siphnos Scientific Studies in Early Mining and Extractive Metallurgy, ed. P.T. Craddock. British Museum, London. pp.63-80 8 Gale, N.H. 1980 Some aspects of lead and silver mining in the Aegean Thera and theAegean World II. Thera and the Aegean World, London. pp. 161-195 9 Chamberlain, V.E. & N.H. Gale 1980 The isotopic composition of lead in Greek coins and galena from Greece and Turkey Proceedings of the 16th International Symposium on Archaeometry and Archaeological Prospection, eds E.A. Slater & J.O. Tate. National Museum of Antiquities of Scotland, Edinburgh. pp.139-155 10 Gale, N.H., W. Gentner & G.A. Wagner 1980 Mineralogical and geographical silver sources of Archaic Greek coinage Special Publications of the Royal Numismatic Society 13: 3-49 11 Gale, N.H. & Z.A. Stos-Gale 1981 Cycladic lead and silver metallurgy The Annual of the British School at Athens 76: 169-224 12 Gale, N.H., E.T.C. Spooner & P.J. Potts 1981 The lead and strontium isotope geochemistry of metalliferous sediments associated with Upper Cretaceous ophiolitic rocks in Cyprus, Syria, and the Sultanate of Oman Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences 18: 1290-1302 13 Stos-Gale, Z.A. & N.H. Gale 1981 Sources of galena, lead and silver in Predynastic Egypt Actes du XX Symposium D'Archeometrie, vol III, Bulletin de Liaison du Groupe des Methodes Physiques et Chemiques de L'Archeologie Supplement 1981, pp. 285-295. 14 Gale, N.H. & Z.A. Stos-Gale 1982 Bronze Age copper sources in the Mediterranean: a new approach Science 216: 11-18 15 Gale, N.H. & Z.A. 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