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.

MC ICP-MS Lead Isotope Analysis of Archaeological Metal Artifacts from the Bronze Age Sites of Eurasia

2020 ◽  
pp. 133-141
Author(s):  
Daria V. Kiseleva ◽  
Natalia I. Shishlina ◽  
Maria V. Streletskaya ◽  
Natalia G. Soloshenko ◽  
Tatyana G. Okuneva ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Bronze Age ◽  
Lead Isotope ◽  
Isotope Analysis ◽  
Metal Artifacts ◽  
Lead Isotope Analysis ◽  
Icp Ms ◽  
The Bronze Age

Exploring the Bronze Age Tells and Tell-like Settlements from the Eastern Carpathian Basin. Results of a Research Project

2020 ◽  
pp. 73-96
Author(s):  
Florin Gogâltan ◽  
Alexandra Găvan ◽  
Marian A. Lie ◽  
Gruia Fazecaș ◽  
Cristina Cordoș ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Bronze Age ◽  
Carpathian Basin ◽  
Research Project ◽  
The Bronze Age

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 From the Parochial to the Universal: Comparing Cloth Cultures in the Bronze Age

2012 ◽  
Vol 15 (1) ◽  
pp. 61-97 ◽  
Author(s):  
Susanna Harris
Keyword(s):  
Bronze Age ◽  
Raw Materials ◽  
Comparative Approach ◽  
Textile Fibre ◽  
Eighteenth Dynasty ◽  
Salt Mines ◽  
Southern Scandinavia ◽  
Chronological Period ◽  
The Bronze Age ◽  
Thread Count

The aim of this research is to compare the cloth cultures of Europe and Egypt in the Bronze Age and New Kingdom. The comparison focuses on the fourteenth century cal BC and includes four geographically separate areas, including the oak coffin burials of southern Scandinavia, the Hallstatt salt mines of central Europe, Late Minoan Crete, and the tombs and towns of the later Eighteenth Dynasty of Egypt. The comparative approach can bring insights even when applied to unconnected cultures or regions. However, in this study I concentrate on a restricted chronological period and areas that were connected, directly or indirectly, by widespread networks of trade or exchange. The concept of cloth cultures is used to include both textiles and animal skins as these were closely related materials in the prehistoric past. Information was gathered according to the following categories: raw materials, including textile fibre, and species of skins; fabric structure and thread count (only for textiles); decoration and finish; and use and context. From this study, it is possible to recognize the universally shared principles of cloth cultures and the great versatility and creativity in the regional cloth cultures of 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

scholarly journals Obsidian from the Bronze Age Village of San Vincenzo, Stromboli, Aeolian Islands: A Preliminary Investigation

2019 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 31-45 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sara Tiziana Levi ◽  
Diego Calliari ◽  
Marta Arzarello ◽  
Valentina Cannavò ◽  
Andrea Di Renzoni ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Bronze Age ◽  
Preliminary Investigation ◽  
Raw Material ◽  
Aeolian Islands ◽  
Preliminary Results ◽  
Production Areas ◽  
Non Destructive ◽  
The Bronze Age

AbstractWe present the preliminary results of the ongoing investigation of the obsidian from the Bronze Age village of San Vincenzo, Stromboli, Aeolian Islands, for the purpose of providing technological and typological characterization, and also provenance of the raw material, the latter with non-destructive p-XRF. Regarding provenance, the source of the raw material is likely to be neighbouring Lipari. It was transported to Stromboli and used mostly in a highly opportunistic manner and for the production of blade(let), non-bladelike tools (mainly scrapers) and micro bladelets. The obsidian distribution around the site shows concentration in both domestic and production areas.

Copper Mining at Mount Gabriel, Co. Cork: Bronze Age Bonanza or Post-Famine Fiasco?

1983 ◽  
Vol 49 (1) ◽  
pp. 317-333 ◽  
Author(s):  
C. Stephen Briggs
Keyword(s):  
Bronze Age ◽  
Copper Mining ◽  
Archaeological Survey ◽  
Historical Sources ◽  
Mining Sites ◽  
The Many ◽  
The Bronze Age

The background to discoveries of early mining sites in southwest Ireland is examined. Particular attention is devoted to the workings at Mount Gabriel, currently believed to date from the Bronze Age. Working principally from historical sources it is concluded that the site was exploited in shallow workings and trial pits between c. 1852 and 1862. Theories concerning the output of these and other Irish mines are discussed. Palaeoenvironmental and archaeological survey as well as documentary research are recommended to help solve the many outstanding problems.

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 Bracelet from an Elunino burial at the Teleut Vzvoz-I site

2020 ◽  
pp. 5-14
Author(s):  
I.A. Valkov
Keyword(s):  
Bronze Age ◽  
Trace Analysis ◽  
Western Siberia ◽  
Average Diameter ◽  
Raw Material ◽  
Archaeological Sites ◽  
Forest Steppe ◽  
Burial Ground ◽  
Radiocarbon Dates ◽  
The Bronze Age

The article studies a stone bead bracelet found in an Early Bronze Age burial of the Elunino archaeological culture during the excavation of the Teleut Vzvoz-I burial ground (heterogeneous in time) in the south of Western Siberia (Forest-Steppe Altai). According to a series of calibrated radiocarbon dates, the Elunino burial ground at the Teleut Vzvoz-I site was used in the 22nd–18th centuries BC. The artefact under study was found in double burial No. 16 of the indicated burial ground, on the wrist of an adult (gender is not established). The bracelet in-cludes 66 stone beads, as well as one stone base. This piece of jewellery is unique in terms of technique, as well as the sacral meaning embedded in it. The ornament found on the beads bears no analogies to those discovered in the well-known Bronze Age archaeological sites of Western and Eastern Siberia. The present publication con-siders the morphological and raw material characteristics of the bracelet, as well as the specifics of its production and use. In this study, trace analysis was performed, i.e. the analysis of macro- and micro-traces left on the sur-face of the item as a result of its production and subsequent use. All traces were examined using an MBS-10 stereoscopic microscope at a magnification of ×16–56. It was found that some of the beads in the bracelet were made of serpentinite. The nearest sources of this stone are at least 250–300 km away from Teleut Vzvoz-I. The beads are made by counter-drilling, drilling of blind holes, polishing and grinding. This find is unique due to orna-mental compositions found on several beads in the form of oblique notches on side faces. The extremely small size of the beads (average diameter of 3.3 mm; average thickness of 1.4 mm) makes the pattern invisible to the naked eye. Thus, it is concluded that the ornament had a sacred meaning, and the bracelet itself served as an amulet. Despite no finds of ornamented bracelets dating back to the Bronze Age in Western Siberia and adjacent territories, typologically the bracelet bears analogies to the antiquities of the Okunevo culture, the Yamna cultural and historical community, as well as in the materials of the Bronze Age archaeological site of Gonur Depe (Turk-menistan). The study of the bracelet demonstrates the relevance of performing trace analysis of such items from other archaeological sites.

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