Archeometallurgy
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En este artículo, el lector encontrará una síntesis del conjunto de investigaciones que han aplicado la experimentación para el estudio de las técnicas prehistóricas de transformación de minerales de cobre. Se trata de un corpus... more
http://eacom.be/wp/non-ferrous-metals-metallurgy-and-experimental-archaeology/ For the past twenty years, archaeometallurgy has developed substantially, as did the archaeometry of archaeological metals. Regarding the complexity of the... more
The different processes of lost-wax casting are described according to the technique used to form the wax model. The current assessments of the early history of the technique are discussed. The evidence from early literature, the moulds... more
This paper presents an original work of thesis that is defended in July 2004 at the Faculty of Philosophy, Department of Archaeology in Belgrade, before a commission made up of PhD Dusan Mihailovic and PhD Boban Tripoković.
In the summer of 2000 an intriguing find was made during excavations by the Fröjel Discovery Programme, Gotland, Sweden. In a pasture known as “Irma’s hage”, which had never been ploughed, traces of a silver casting workshop were uncovered.
Summary Twenty years of metallurgical researches in Northern Italy. The Author presents a summary of all her researches with M. Tizzoni about early copper and iron mining and metallurgy in Lombardy. The large copper, and possibly... more
Kniha byla vydána roku 1982 v Praze jako 20 svazek serie ,,Monumenta archaeologica" / The book was published in Prague in 1982 as 20 series of ,,Monumenta archeologica".
"Viene esposto il caso studio relativo ai manufatti in argento rinvenuti nel sito archeologico di Classe (Ravenna). Nel Settembre 2005 nello scavo dell’area portuale della città è stato rinvenuto un tesoretto di oggetti d’argento da... more
According to recent researches bearers of H2a1 MtDNA suddenly appeared between Araxes, Don and Volga Rivers during Chalcolithic and spread in Eurasia until Late Bronze Age during what is commonly called Indo-European Migrations. We... more
Lead Isotopes Analysis (LIA) is a well-established technique, that is used to determine the origin of copper in an artefact under investigation (i.e. “provenancing”), through lead isotopes ratios. By comparing the ratios of the lead... more
In the past, many scholars have attempted to find tin sources, in the central Mediterranean area, for bronze production, mostly between the Medium Bronze and Recent Bronze Age (1,700-1,200 BC). In this period we can find, in the entire... more
"The aim of this thesis has been to investigate and interpret late Iron Age and Early Medieval traces of non-ferrous metalworking on the island Gotland, Sweden. Gotland was not, based on the archaeological record, an integrated part of... more
This article presents a unique Byzantine gold pectoral cross pendant from the Avar period archaeological site of Makó, Mikócsa-halom, located in Maros Valley, Southeastern Hungary (Kom. Csongrád). The adult woman (aged 23-35) who wore... more
The shipwreck codenamed ANG-003 was located in Caldeira Island, within the group of islands known as “Ilhas Primeiras”, in Angoche, Province of Nampula, Republic of Mozambique, in 2003 following information from fishermen. The nature of... more