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Source analysis (LA-ICP-MS) of gold indicated that coins being minted by the Almoravid dynasty in North Africa were struck from the same West African gold. Subsequent similar source analysis of carnelian beads, the first in-depth study to be completed on this material using Laser Ablation Inductively coupled Mass Spectrometry, indicated that some were probably of Indian origin, and others of West African

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