1998. The Circulation of Metal in the British Bronze Age: The Application of Lead Isotope Analysis (British Museum Occasional Paper 102). London.Rohl, B. and Needham, S. 1998. The Circulation of Metal in the British Bronze Age: The Application of Lead Isotope Analysis. London: British ...
Combined with existing data, this article comprehensively discusses the possibly existing circulation network of metal resources between the Hami Basin and the other three areas, namely the southern Altai Mountains, the Hexi Corridor, and the West Tianshan Mountains during the Bronze Age, and provides...
but also by many other demands. Here we contribute another case study in which the social, cultural and ritual value can affect the modes of production, circulation and consumption of metal in the Bronze Age. Considering the striking number of metal objects required by the entire Anyang society...
It takes into account the production, circulation and deposition of metalwork and presents a number of themes concerned with the social construction of objects, places and people in the Bronze Age, while exploring how elements are drawn upon to facilitate this. The case study focuses on evidence...
Optical micrograph of the polished section of the bronze slag as seen under bright field illumination (a,d) and under crossed polars (b–c,e). In (a) bluish sulphides of Cu and Cu–Fe and red-yellow metal inclusions can be discerned from the dark grey coloured slag matrix. The metal...
In the ensuing time, the metal bracelets only spread southward along the crescent-shaped cultural-communication belt, and there was almost no trace in the Central Plains before Han Dynasty [5]. Especially when Southwest China entered bronze age, bronze bracelets began to appear on a large scale...
A Provenance Study of Early Bronze Age Artefacts Found in Asturias (Spain) by Means of Metal Impurities and Lead, Copper and Antimony Isotopic Compositions 2019, Archaeometry The lead ores circulation in Central China during the early Western Han Dynasty: A case study with bronze vessels from the...
Andronovo culture is the largest Eurasian formation in the Bronze Age, and it had a significant impact on neighboring regions. It is the important culture for understanding many historical processes, in particular, the origins and migration of Indo-Europ
CHINAMETAL recyclingSOCIAL hierarchiesBRONZE AgeANALYTICAL chemistryCASTING (Manufacturing process)Anyang, the last capital of the Chinese Shang dynasty, became one of the largest metal consumers in Eurasia during the second millennium BCE. However, it remains unclear how Anyang people managed to sustain...
Dacian civilization flourished on the actual territory of Romania during the Late Iron Age and had its peak from the first century BC to the first century AD. They had intensive relations with Hellenistic and Roman civilizations. Therefore, it is difficu