Physical barriers, cultural connections: Prehistoric metallurgy across the Alpine region
This paper considers the early copper and copper-alloy metallurgy of the entire Alpine region. It introduces a new approach to the interpretation of chemical composition data sets, which has been applied to a comprehensive regional database for the first time. The Alpine Chalcolithic and Early Bronz...
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2017
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| author | Perucchetti, L Bray, P Dolfini, A Pollard, A |
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| description | This paper considers the early copper and copper-alloy metallurgy of the entire Alpine region. It introduces a new approach to the interpretation of chemical composition data sets, which has been applied to a comprehensive regional database for the first time. The Alpine Chalcolithic and Early Bronze Age each have distinctive patterns of metal use, which can be interpreted through changes in mining, social choice, and major landscape features such as watersheds and river systems. Interestingly, the Alpine range does not act as a north-south barrier, as major differences in composition tend to appear on an east-west axis. Central among these is the prevalence of tin-bronze in the western Alps compared to the east. This 'tin-line' is discussed in terms of metal flow through the region and evidence for a deeply rooted geographical division that runs through much of Alpine prehistory. |
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| spelling | oxford-uuid:9b59a824-52eb-4054-85d2-31479d0c381d2022-03-27T00:28:11ZPhysical barriers, cultural connections: Prehistoric metallurgy across the Alpine regionJournal articlehttp://purl.org/coar/resource_type/c_dcae04bcuuid:9b59a824-52eb-4054-85d2-31479d0c381dSymplectic Elements at OxfordTaylor and Francis2017Perucchetti, LBray, PDolfini, APollard, AThis paper considers the early copper and copper-alloy metallurgy of the entire Alpine region. It introduces a new approach to the interpretation of chemical composition data sets, which has been applied to a comprehensive regional database for the first time. The Alpine Chalcolithic and Early Bronze Age each have distinctive patterns of metal use, which can be interpreted through changes in mining, social choice, and major landscape features such as watersheds and river systems. Interestingly, the Alpine range does not act as a north-south barrier, as major differences in composition tend to appear on an east-west axis. Central among these is the prevalence of tin-bronze in the western Alps compared to the east. This 'tin-line' is discussed in terms of metal flow through the region and evidence for a deeply rooted geographical division that runs through much of Alpine prehistory. |
| spellingShingle | Perucchetti, L Bray, P Dolfini, A Pollard, A Physical barriers, cultural connections: Prehistoric metallurgy across the Alpine region |
| title | Physical barriers, cultural connections: Prehistoric metallurgy across the Alpine region |
| title_full | Physical barriers, cultural connections: Prehistoric metallurgy across the Alpine region |
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| title_full_unstemmed | Physical barriers, cultural connections: Prehistoric metallurgy across the Alpine region |
| title_short | Physical barriers, cultural connections: Prehistoric metallurgy across the Alpine region |
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