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Exceptionally high levels of lead pollution in the Balkans from the Early Bronze Age to the Industrial Revolution. [PDF]

open access: yesProc Natl Acad Sci U S A, 2018
The Balkans are considered the birthplace of mineral resource exploitation and metalworking in Europe. However, since knowledge of the timing and extent of metallurgy in southeastern Europe is largely constrained by discontinuous archaeological findings,
Longman J   +3 more
europepmc   +6 more sources

Inventing Metallurgy in Western Eurasia: a Look Through the Microscope Lens [PDF]

open access: yes, 2015
The quest for the ‘when’ and ‘where’ of the world's earliest metallurgy has been dominating scholarly research on this topic for decades. This paper looks beyond the question of origins by discussing ‘how’ and ‘why’ metallurgy was invented. It looks into
Radivojević, M
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Tainted ores and the rise of tin bronzes in Eurasia, c. 6500 years ago [PDF]

open access: yes, 2015
The earliest tin bronze artefacts in Eurasia are generally believed to have appeared in the Near East in the early third millennium BC. Here we present tin bronze artefacts that occur far from the Near East, and in a significantly earlier period ...
Jovanovic, M   +4 more
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Between the Danube and the Deep Blue Sea : zooarchaeological meta-analysis reveals variability in the spread and development of Neolithic farming across the western Balkans [PDF]

open access: yes, 2016
The first spread of farming practices into Europe in the Neolithic period involves two distinct 'streams', respectively around the Mediterranean littoral and along the Danube corridor to central Europe.
Gaastra, Jane   +2 more
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Relative and absolute chronologies of Belovode and Pločnik [PDF]

open access: yes, 2021
The chronology of the sites of Belovode and Pločnik has been discussed several times in the past two decades since excavations were renewed at each site (Arsenijević and Živković 1998; Šljivar 1996; Šljivar and Jacanović 1996a; Šljivar and Kuzmanović ...
Maric, M   +3 more
openaire   +3 more sources

Metallurgical knowledge and networks of supply in the 5th millennium BC Balkans: Belovode and Pločnik in their regional context [PDF]

open access: yes, 2021
The recent set of excavations (campaigns 2012 and 2013) at the sites of Belovode and Pločnik (see Chapters 11 and 26) have shown the use of copper minerals and metallurgical activities to be highly consistent with results from previous analytical ...
Pernicka, E, Radivojevic, M, Rehren, T
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Balkan metallurgy in a Eurasian context [PDF]

open access: yes, 2021
As outlined in Chapter 2, three key lines of enquiry shaped The Rise of Metallurgy in Eurasia project and underpinned the research questions. Firstly, there are competing views about whether metallurgy in Eurasia had a single origin or arose in multiple ...
Radivojevic, M, Roberts, BW
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Belovode: technology of metal production [PDF]

open access: yes, 2021
Metal production evidence yielded during the excavation campaigns 2012 and 2013 in Belovode shows similar characteristic to the samples from the site studied and published previously (Radivojević 2012, 2013, 2015; Radivojević and Kuzmanović Cvetković ...
Radivojevic, M, Rehren, T
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