DIET AND ENVIRONMENT IN SOUTH‐EASTERN IBERIA DURING THE BRONZE AGE, BASED ON ISOTOPE ANALYSIS OF HUMAN REMAINS

2019 ◽  
Vol 38 (2) ◽  
pp. 189-213 ◽  
Author(s):  
Fernando Molina‐González ◽  
Francisco Nocete‐Calvo ◽  
Antonio Delgado‐Huertas ◽  
Juan Antonio Cámara‐Serrano ◽  
Rafael M. Martínez‐Sánchez ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Bronze Age ◽  
Isotope Analysis ◽  
Human Remains ◽  
South Eastern ◽  
The Bronze Age

scholarly journals Redefining the role of metal production during the Bronze Age of south-eastern Iberia. The mines of eastern Sierra Morena

2019 ◽  
Vol 45 ◽  
pp. 138-153
Author(s):  
Luis Arboledas-Martínez ◽  
Eva Alarcón-García
Keyword(s):  
Iberian Peninsula ◽  
Bronze Age ◽  
New Mineral ◽  
Metal Production ◽  
Archaeological Evidence ◽  
South Eastern ◽  
Sierra Morena ◽  
The Bronze Age ◽  
Metallurgical Activities

Researchers have traditionally paid little attention to mining by Bronze Age communities in the south-east of the Iberian Peninsula. This has changed recently due to the identification of new mineral exploitations from this period during the archaeo-mining surveys carried out in the Rumblar and Jándula valleys in the Sierra Morena Mountains between 2009-2014, as well as the excavation of the José Martín Palacios mine (Baños de la Encina, Jaén). The analysis of the archaeological evidence and the archaeometric results reveal the importance of mining and metallurgical activities undertaken by the communities that inhabited the region between 2200 and 900 cal. BC, when it became one of the most important copper and silver production centers during the Late Prehistory of south-eastern Iberia.

Lead Isotope Analysis of the Bronze Age Metal in the Steppe Cis- and Trans-Urals

2022 ◽  
pp. 29-38
Author(s):  
Daria V. Kiseleva ◽  
Natalia G. Soloshenko ◽  
Tatyana G. Okuneva ◽  
Evgeny S. Shagalov ◽  
Vitaly V. Tkachev ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Bronze Age ◽  
Lead Isotope ◽  
Isotope Analysis ◽  
Lead Isotope Analysis ◽  
Cis And Trans ◽  
The Bronze Age

scholarly journals Mountain adaptation of caprine herding in the eastern Pyrenees during the Bronze Age: A stable oxygen and carbon isotope analysis of teeth

2018 ◽  
Vol 484 ◽  
pp. 60-74 ◽  
Author(s):  
Juliette Knockaert ◽  
Marie Balasse ◽  
Christine Rendu ◽  
Albane Burens ◽  
Pierre Campmajo ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Bronze Age ◽  
Carbon Isotope ◽  
Isotope Analysis ◽  
Oxygen And Carbon Isotope ◽  
Eastern Pyrenees ◽  
Stable Oxygen ◽  
Carbon Isotope Analysis ◽  
The Bronze Age

Subsistence and social change in central Eurasia: stable isotope analysis of populations spanning the Bronze Age transition

2014 ◽  
Vol 42 ◽  
pp. 525-538 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alicia Ventresca Miller ◽  
Emma Usmanova ◽  
Viktor Logvin ◽  
Saule Kalieva ◽  
Irina Shevnina ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Social Change ◽  
Stable Isotope ◽  
Bronze Age ◽  
Stable Isotope Analysis ◽  
Isotope Analysis ◽  
Central Eurasia ◽  
The Bronze Age

scholarly journals Excavation of an urned cremation burial of the Bronze Age, Glennan, Argyll and Bute

2003 ◽  
Vol 8 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gavin MacGregor ◽  
Jennifer Miller ◽  
Julie Roberts ◽  
Michael Donnelly ◽  
Gary Tompsett ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Bronze Age ◽  
Cultural Landscape ◽  
Human Remains ◽  
Joint Disease ◽  
Section 8 ◽  
Research Division ◽  
Animal Remains ◽  
Animal Bone ◽  
National Museums ◽  
The Bronze Age

As part of the Historic Scotland Human Remains Call Off Contract, Glasgow Univ ersity Archaeological Research Division (GUARD)undertook an archaeological excavation of a prehistoric urned cremation deposit within a boulder shelter at Glennan, Kilmartin, Argyll and Bute (NGR NM86220097). Analysis has shown the cremation was of a male probably aged between 25 and 40 years. He had suffered from slight spinal joint disease, and mild iron deficiency anaemia, though neither seems likely to have affected his general health. He was cremated shortly after death, together with a young sheep/goat, and their remains were subsequently picked from the pyre and co-mingled before burial in the urn. An unburnt retouched flint flake was recovered which may have accompanied the burial. The closest parallels for the cremation container are found within the tradition of Enlarged Food Vessel urns, a tradition that is poorly dated but probably has a currency in the first half of the second millennium BC. Radiocarbon dating was problematic: a sample of heather-type charcoal from the fill of the urn was dated and provided a range of cal AD1260-1390 at 2 sigma (OxA-10281). A second date was obtained from a sample of hazel charcoal from the lowest part of the fill of the urn, which provided a range of 3370-2920 cal BC at 2 sigma (GU-9598). There are sufficient examples of animal bone previously found accompanying Bronze Age burials to suggest that animals may have had a role in mortuary rites before burial of human remains, though the role and status of these animal remains is not always clear. Although the sample is small, the evidence suggests that, depending on the burial rite, some species of animals were considered more appropriate than others for inclusion; pigs associated with inhumation and goat/sheep associated with cremation burials. The choice of a domesticated animal to accompany the mortuary rites may have been of significance during a period when agro-pastural farming was being widely practiced, and may reflect the perceived inter-relationship between the cultural landscape of people and their livestock. The context of deposition of an Enlarged Food Vessel urn at Glennan, in a boulder shelter in the uplands, provides an interesting contrast with the known deposition of Food Vessels focused on the valley floor at Kilmartin. It indicates that while many of the more visible ceremonial and funerary sites of the second millennium BC may focus on the floor of the glen, other parts of the landscape were also significant in terms of such activities.POSTSCRIPT The cremated bone from the Glennan urn, that had previously given some problematic dates (Report Section 8) has now (March 2004) produced a result of 3615+/-35BP (GrA-24861). At 2130-1880 calBC (2-sigma), this is well within the range of dates for such Vase Urns. The author of SAIR 8 acknowledges the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland for funding this radiocarbon date and the National Museums of Scotland Dating Cremated Bone Project (especially Dr Alison Sheridan) for organising it.

scholarly journals Transformations of Metal Supply during the Bronze Age in the Carpathian Basin

2020 ◽  
Vol 9 (2) ◽  
pp. 315-330
Author(s):  
Viktória Kiss
Keyword(s):  
Bronze Age ◽  
Neutron Radiography ◽  
Raw Materials ◽  
Isotope Analysis ◽  
Carpathian Basin ◽  
Raw Material ◽  
Research Centre ◽  
Metal Artifacts ◽  
Mining Sites ◽  
The Bronze Age

This paper presents recent research questions which have been raised and methods which have been used in the study of Bronze Age metallurgy in connection with available natural resources (ores) in and around the Carpathian Basin. This topic fits in the most current trends in the research on European prehistoric archaeology. Given the lack of written sources, copper and bronze artifacts discovered in settlement and cemetery excavations and prehistoric mining sites provide the primary sources on which the studies in question are based. The aim of compositional and isotope analysis of copper and tin ores, metal tools, ornaments, and weapons is to determine the provenience of the raw materials and further an understanding of the chaine operatiore of prehistoric metal production. The Momentum Mobility Research Group of the Institute of Archaeology, Research Centre for the Humanities studies these metal artifacts using archaeological and scientific methods. It has focused on the first thousand years of the Bronze Age (2500–1500 BC). Multidisciplinary research include non-destructive XRF, PGAA (promptgamma activation), TOF-ND (time-of-flight neutron diffraction) analyses and neutron radiography, as well as destructive methods, e.g. metal sampling for compositional and lead isotope testing, alongside archaeological analysis. Microstructure studies are also efficient methods for determining the raw material and production techniques. The results suggest the use of regional ore sources and interregional connections, as well as several transformations in the exchange network of the prehistoric communities living in the Carpathian Basin.

Disappearance Beyond Recall: A Social Context for Bronze Age Aurochs Extinction in Britain?

2015 ◽  
Vol 81 ◽  
pp. 107-123 ◽  
Author(s):  
Christopher Evans
Keyword(s):  
Social Context ◽  
Bronze Age ◽  
Species Loss ◽  
Faunal Remains ◽  
Social Relevance ◽  
South Eastern ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Bronze Age

The interest which attaches to the history of extinct British animals can only be equalled by the regret which must be felt, by all true naturalists, at theirdisappearance beyond recallfrom our fauna (Harting 1880, 3; emphasis added).The implications of pit-deposits containing aurochs/Bos primigeniusskulls dating to the Bronze Age, found in two recent excavations in Bedfordshire are outlined. Involving a review of related findings in south-eastern England, these serve as a platform to consider the dynamics of aurochs extinction, which is held to have occurred in Britain by the middle–later centuries of the 2nd millenniumbc. It should be stressed that, although consulting many ‘expert’ colleagues, this paper is not written from a faunal remains-specialist perspective. It is essentially discursive and primarily intended to highlight a significant site-recovery trend. It reflects, moreover, on issues of broad social relevance. Holocene human-induced extinctions have both an inherent curiosity and poignancy. Indeed now, faced with currently threatened mass-species loss, they can even involve – beyond regret – a sense of cumulative guilt.

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