Bronze age casting cakes from the Domažlice region compared with the Mutěnín copper ore deposit in Western Bohemia (Central Europe)
The result's identifiers
Result code in IS VaVaI
<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F00228745%3A_____%2F25%3AN0000065" target="_blank" >RIV/00228745:_____/25:N0000065 - isvavai.cz</a>
Alternative codes found
RIV/61389005:_____/25:00642341 RIV/60076658:12210/25:43911132 RIV/00025798:_____/25:10169838
Result on the web
<a href="https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s12520-025-02355-8?utm_source=researchgate.net&utm_medium=article" target="_blank" >https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s12520-025-02355-8?utm_source=researchgate.net&utm_medium=article</a>
DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s12520-025-02355-8" target="_blank" >10.1007/s12520-025-02355-8</a>
Alternative languages
Result language
angličtina
Original language name
Bronze age casting cakes from the Domažlice region compared with the Mutěnín copper ore deposit in Western Bohemia (Central Europe)
Original language description
This paper discusses the possible prehistoric exploitation of the local copper ore deposit Mutěnín-Měděnka in the Domažlice region, western Bohemia (Central Europe). The research project deals with a possible relationship of the Bronze Age casting cakes discovered in this region to the historically documented mine of Mutěnín-Měděnka. The study is based on the detailed material analysis of the casting cakes and geochemical characterization of samples of chalcopyrite and secondary copper minerals from this deposit. The results considerably help to extend the so far very limited knowledge of the origin of the Bronze Age copper material in Bohemia and reveal its position in the complex structure of the material distribution network within Central Europe. Provenance analyses of copper raw material combine the determination of lead isotope ratios by HR-MC-ICP-MS with chemical composition data obtained by INAA, ICP-MS and ED-XRF. The research provides new evidence for the origin of the copper material in the threshold of Early and Middle Bronze Age in Bohemia. The origin of the analysed casting cakes can be traced to chalcopyrite deposits in the eastern and South-Eastern Alps. Possible exploitation of sulphidic copper minerals from the Mutěnín-Měděnka local deposit in the Late Bronze Age period has not been proven.
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
<a href="/en/project/EF16_013%2F0001812" target="_blank" >EF16_013/0001812: Center of Accelerators and Nuclear Analytical Methods - OP</a><br>
Continuities
V - Vyzkumna aktivita podporovana z jinych verejnych zdroju
Others
Publication year
2025
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
1866-9557
e-ISSN
1866-9565
Volume of the periodical
17
Issue of the periodical within the volume
12
Country of publishing house
DE - GERMANY
Number of pages
15
Pages from-to
1-15
UT code for WoS article
001617604700001
EID of the result in the Scopus database
2-s2.0-105022201289