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Verfasst von:Berger, Daniel [VerfasserIn]   i
 Brügmann, Gerhard [VerfasserIn]   i
 Friedrich, Ronny [VerfasserIn]   i
 Lutz, Joachim [VerfasserIn]   i
 Meyer, Hans-Peter [VerfasserIn]   i
 Pernicka, Ernst [VerfasserIn]   i
Titel:Shiny bronze in glassy matter
Titelzusatz:an inconspicuous piece of slag from the Bronze Age mining site of Musiston (Tajikistan) and its significance for the development of tin metallurgy in Central Asia
Verf.angabe:Daniel Berger, Gerhard Bruegmann, Ronny Friedrich, Joachim Lutz, Hans-Peter Meyer, Ernst Pernicka
E-Jahr:2022
Jahr:19 July 2022
Umfang:29 S.
Illustrationen:Illustrationen
Fussnoten:Gesehen am 09.11.2022
Titel Quelle:Enthalten in: Archaeological and anthropological sciences
Ort Quelle:Berlin : Springer, 2009
Jahr Quelle:2022
Band/Heft Quelle:14(2022), 8, Artikel-ID 150, Seite 1-29
ISSN Quelle:1866-9565
Abstract:This paper aims at contributing to a better understanding of the beginnings of tin and bronze metallurgy in Central Asia by investigating a hitherto unique piece of a bronze slag. The object was originally discovered as a stray find only 4 km away from the large copper-tin deposit of Musiston in Tajikistan. It contains many prills of bronze and copper as well as small charcoal particles. Radiocarbon dating of the charcoal places the slag in a period between 1900 and 1400 BCE and thus in the Late Bronze Age of the region. This date coincides with radiocarbon dates of relics from underground galleries of the Musiston deposit. Chemical and microscopic examination demonstrated the slag to be a relic of a co-smelting process, in which a natural assemblage of tin and copper minerals was smelted simultaneously. Both the chemical and the tin and copper isotope compositions clearly link the slag to the nearby polymetallic ores from Musiston, of which an extensive dataset is presented. The artefact's lead isotope ratios and increased iron concentration in turn indicate intentional fluxing of the original ore charge with iron-dominated ores. These results are the first tangible evidence of a smelting process of tin ores in the entire region and therefore add a new dimension to the findings from previous mining archaeological investigations. At the same time, the results give significant information about the smelting process of secondary polymetallic ores from Musiston and help in assessing the scientific data of Bronze Age bronze artefacts from Central Asia.
DOI:doi:10.1007/s12520-022-01606-2
URL:kostenfrei: Volltext: https://doi.org/10.1007/s12520-022-01606-2
 kostenfrei: Volltext: https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s12520-022-01606-2
 DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s12520-022-01606-2
Datenträger:Online-Ressource
Sprache:eng
Sach-SW:Bronze production
 Central Asia
 Co-smelting
 copper
 fractionation
 iron
 isotope
 Isotopic analysis
 Late Bronze Age
 lead
 limpopo province
 Musiston
 Process reconstruction
 rooiberg
 Smelting slag
 smelting slags
 technology
 Tin and copper ores
 valley
K10plus-PPN:1821327454
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