Bronze Age copper sources in the Mediterranean : a new approach
Efforts by scientists to locate the sources of copper used in ancient Mediterranean and Near Eastern cultures through comparative chemical analyses of copper ores and archaeological artifacts have largely failed for various mineralogical and metallurgical reasons. The isotopic composition of lead, a...
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American Association for the Advancement of Science
1982
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| description | Efforts by scientists to locate the sources of copper used in ancient Mediterranean and Near Eastern cultures through comparative chemical analyses of copper ores and archaeological artifacts have largely failed for various mineralogical and metallurgical reasons. The isotopic composition of lead, an element present in a minor amount in many copper ores and bronze objects, is unchanged through metallurgical processes and may in principle be used to determine the sources of the copper used in Bronze Age artifacts. Results suggest that for Late Bronze Age Crete the Laurion region in Attica, Greece, may have been a more important copper source than Cyprus. |
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| spelling | oxford-uuid:f31e7c70-f3c2-442c-a4b7-98f1978bb11c2023-11-10T10:59:02ZBronze Age copper sources in the Mediterranean : a new approachJournal articlehttp://purl.org/coar/resource_type/c_dcae04bcuuid:f31e7c70-f3c2-442c-a4b7-98f1978bb11cArchaeologyEarth sciencesHistory of the ancient worldEnglishOxford University Research Archive - ValetAmerican Association for the Advancement of Science1982Gale, NStos-Gale, ZEfforts by scientists to locate the sources of copper used in ancient Mediterranean and Near Eastern cultures through comparative chemical analyses of copper ores and archaeological artifacts have largely failed for various mineralogical and metallurgical reasons. The isotopic composition of lead, an element present in a minor amount in many copper ores and bronze objects, is unchanged through metallurgical processes and may in principle be used to determine the sources of the copper used in Bronze Age artifacts. Results suggest that for Late Bronze Age Crete the Laurion region in Attica, Greece, may have been a more important copper source than Cyprus. |
| spellingShingle | Archaeology Earth sciences History of the ancient world Gale, N Stos-Gale, Z Bronze Age copper sources in the Mediterranean : a new approach |
| title | Bronze Age copper sources in the Mediterranean : a new approach |
| title_full | Bronze Age copper sources in the Mediterranean : a new approach |
| title_fullStr | Bronze Age copper sources in the Mediterranean : a new approach |
| title_full_unstemmed | Bronze Age copper sources in the Mediterranean : a new approach |
| title_short | Bronze Age copper sources in the Mediterranean : a new approach |
| title_sort | bronze age copper sources in the mediterranean a new approach |
| topic | Archaeology Earth sciences History of the ancient world |
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