Response to comment of Albarède and colleagues

Abstract

Our purpose is to better understand the actions and behaviours of people in the past, often with a focus on ancient economies, and we are willing to use tools from any discipline that allow us to explore these issues. This is why it is so important that the limitations of techniques applied to archaeology are presented as explicitly as their utility.

Keywords

• archaeology
• pb
• ag isotopes
• trace elements as provenance tracers