Aroche (Huelva, Andalucia): a new Neolithic axehead of Alpine jade in the southwest of the Iberian Peninsula

Result code in IS VaVaI

<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F00216224%3A14310%2F16%3A00089549" target="_blank" >RIV/00216224:14310/16:00089549 - isvavai.cz</a>

Result on the web

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s12520-015-0232-9" target="_blank" >http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s12520-015-0232-9</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s12520-015-0232-9" target="_blank" >10.1007/s12520-015-0232-9</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Aroche (Huelva, Andalucia): a new Neolithic axehead of Alpine jade in the southwest of the Iberian Peninsula

Original language description

The discovery of a Neolithic Alpine jade axehead in Aroche, in the southwest of Spain, revives the question of longdistance exchange between the Iberian Peninsula and the rest of Europe. This polished blade belongs to a typological model quite characteristic of Alpine production during the second half of the 5th millennium B.C. Different mineralogical approaches (macroscopic features examination, specific gravity, direct XRD, non-destructive micro-XRF spectroscopy, optical stereomicroscopy, magnetic susceptibility determination and microprobe analysis) have identified the rock as an omphacitic jadeitite (mixed jade) with some tiny garnets and a weak retromorphosis. This analysis and the comparison of the rock structure with the referential JADE of Alpine natural jade samples, as well as the extraction modalities and shaping of the axe, provide strong arguments to assign the Aroche axe to a production of Mont Viso: the origin of thousands of axes that circulated in Europe between Ireland and Sicily.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_x - Unclassified - Peer-reviewed scientific article (Jimp, Jsc and Jost)

CEP classification

DB - Geology and mineralogy

OECD FORD branch

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Project

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Continuities

I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Publication year

2016

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences

ISSN

1866-9557

e-ISSN

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Volume of the periodical

8

Issue of the periodical within the volume

1

Country of publishing house

DE - GERMANY

Number of pages

18

Pages from-to

205-222

UT code for WoS article

000372249500019

EID of the result in the Scopus database

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