A ‘Roman Brass’ Age: a transformation in copper-alloy composition in Estonia and northern Latvia during the Roman Iron Age, identified by pXRF
Brass quickly overtook bronze as the dominant copper alloy across vast areas of the Roman world and beyond during the 1st century BC. It has also been established that the quality of this brass changed over time. To establish whether a rapid transition from bronze to brass also took place in the nor...
Main Author: | Marcus Adrian Roxburgh |
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Format: | Article |
Language: | deu |
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Estonian Academy Publishers
2023-03-01
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Series: | Eesti Arheoloogiaajakiri |
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Online Access: | https://kirj.ee/wp-content/plugins/kirj/pub/arch-1-2023-3-29_20230320214120.pdf |
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