Tracking Alpine copper - analysis of Late Bronze Age copper ingot hoard from South Bohemia
The result's identifiers
Result code in IS VaVaI
<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F00025798%3A_____%2F20%3A00000132" target="_blank" >RIV/00025798:_____/20:00000132 - isvavai.cz</a>
Result on the web
<a href="https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s12520-020-01186-z" target="_blank" >https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s12520-020-01186-z</a>
DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s12520-020-01186-z" target="_blank" >10.1007/s12520-020-01186-z</a>
Alternative languages
Result language
angličtina
Original language name
Tracking Alpine copper - analysis of Late Bronze Age copper ingot hoard from South Bohemia
Original language description
We present the results of a complex archaeometric study of Late Bronze Age copper ingots from the Staré Hodějovice hoard (South Bohemia). In order to understand the origin of the copper and describe the metallurgical process, we use modern analytical methods (metallography analyses, major/trace element and lead isotope analyses) to describe the samples. Within this study a representative dataset of trace element composition and lead isotope ratios of non-alloyed and non-recycled corpus of copper ingots from the Late Bronze Age was created. We assume that most of the ingots were not altered by alloying, mixing or recycling. Based on lead isotope ratios and major/trace element composition, we suppose that the origin of the copper could be Alpine ores from the Trentino, Mitterberg and possibly Valais regions. By this study was proved, that smelted copper was transported in the form of flat or plano-convex ingots from multiple sources to South Bohemia, where it was subsequently refined and alloyed. Obtained analytical results refute the idea of significant copper recycling in the Late Bronze Age.
Czech name
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Czech description
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Classification
Type
J<sub>imp</sub> - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database
CEP classification
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OECD FORD branch
60102 - Archaeology
Result continuities
Project
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Continuities
I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace
Others
Publication year
2020
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů
Data specific for result type
Name of the periodical
Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences
ISSN
1866-9565
e-ISSN
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Volume of the periodical
12
Issue of the periodical within the volume
10 : 234
Country of publishing house
DE - GERMANY
Number of pages
21
Pages from-to
nestránkováno
UT code for WoS article
000571778500002
EID of the result in the Scopus database
2-s2.0-85090885375