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Forgery Determination by Functional Analysis

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 February 2011

Leonard Gorelick
Affiliation:
School of Dental Medicine, Suny at Stony Brook Stony Brook, NY 11794–8702
A.J. Gwinnett
Affiliation:
School of Dental Medicine, Suny at Stony Brook Stony Brook, NY 11794–8702
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Abstract

Stone statuettes from turkey in simply shaped animal and bird forms were analyzed using scanning electron microscopy. observations made in drill holes in some of the artifacts led to definite unequivocal evidence for forgery while others were equivocal.

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Copyright © Materials Research Society 1992

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