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Metallographic examination of four 7th–8th century long-blade weapons from Želovce (Slovakia)
Archeologické Rozhledy, 2018 The article presents the metallographic examination of three sabres and one double-edged sword coming from the 7th–8th century Slavic-Avar site of Želovce (Slovakia). All four weapons had been subjected to metallography as early as 1975, but the results
Jiří Hošek, Márk Haramza
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REM: International Engineering Journal, 2021 The article reviews the metallurgical processes used in the first industrial ironworks operated in Brazil, the Patriótica Iron Factory, from 1812 to 1831. It discusses its impact on the ironmaking plants that spread in Minas Gerais's state during the XIX
Fernando José Gomes Landgraf +7 more
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Corrosion and Materials Degradation, 2021 The local patterns at the interfaces of corrosion stratification, developed on two archaeometallurgical bronzes (a Cu-Sn-Pb and a Cu-Zn-Sn-Pb alloy), in the as-cast condition, were assessed by OM and SEM-EDS systematic elemental chemical analyses ...
Olga Papadopoulou, Panayota Vassiliou
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Archaeology and archaeometallurgy: some unresolved areas in the interpretation of analytical data [PDF]
, 2016 This paper uses examples from Mediterranean and in particular Italian prehistory to explore the interface between prehistoric archaeology and metals analysis by examining three areas: the usefulness of data from past analyses (‘what is it made of ...
Pearce, Mark
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Early Bronze Age Copper Circulation in the Guadalentín and Segura Valleys (SE Spain)
Archaeometry, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Identifying the sources of copper used in Early Bronze Age metalwork from south‐east Spain is key to resolving a long‐running debate concerning centralized control, or lack thereof, over El Argar society's economic organisation. This study provides the first substantial integrated programme of EDXRF and MC‐ICP‐MS analyses for copper‐base ...
Dirk Brandherm, Ignacio Montero‐Ruiz
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Metals, 2023 The current research on metallurgical remains from scientific excavations in northeast Yunnan from the Bronze Age period is insufficient. In order to study the smelting technology of the Bronze Age in north-eastern Yunnan, samples of slag and mineral ...
Shuoyang Li +3 more
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An overview of Mesopotamian bronze metallurgy during the 3rd millennium BC [PDF]
, 2005 A
ADAMS, F, Adriaens, Mieke, DE RYCK, I
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Archaeometry, Volume 68, Issue S1, Page S38-S63, April 2026.Abstract This paper presents the first direct evidence of the slags produced during the cementation alloying process of Cu with speiss inside ceramic crucibles, thus representing Cu alloying with As in Middle Kingdom Egypt. The settlement deposits from the Middle Bronze Age were excavated on Elephantine Island, within modern Aswan.
Jiří Kmošek, Martin Odler
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Bullion production in imperial China and its significance for sulphide ore smelting world-wide [PDF]
, 2015 Gold and silver production was of major importance for almost all ancient societies but has been rarely studied archaeologically. Here we present a reconstruction of a previously undocumented technology used to recover gold, silver and lead at the site ...
Chen, J +6 more
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Women, Men, and the Legal Languages of Mining in the Colonial Andes [PDF]
, 2016 Histories of colonial Latin American mining have cemented the image of a scientifically backward society whose pursuit of easy wealth sacrificed the lives of indigenous and African miners in places like Potosí. By examining a mid seventeenth-century mine
Allison Margaret Bigelow
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