Touchstones of archaeology

Result code in IS VaVaI
<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F67985912%3A_____%2F13%3A00424546" target="_blank" >RIV/67985912:_____/13:00424546 - isvavai.cz</a>
Result on the web
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jaa.2013.04.004" target="_blank" >http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jaa.2013.04.004</a>
DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jaa.2013.04.004" target="_blank" >10.1016/j.jaa.2013.04.004</a>

Result language
angličtina
Original language name
Touchstones of archaeology
Original language description
European archaeological collections record hundreds of thousands of stone artefacts from the Early Middle Ages described as whetstones. However, traces of non-ferrous metals, including precious metals preserved on a number of such artefacts. Many of thefinds served in fact as touchstones - tools to test the quality of a particular metal. These artefacts are concentrated mainly in Vendel and Viking Age and Slavic coastal settlements and trade centres in the Baltic Sea basin, the coast and islands of Northwestern Europe, at Central and Eastern European fortresses and suburbia. Many finds also come from rural settings. In early medieval graves the touchstones join balance scales and weights as a sign of the buried individual's access to precious metals.Especially the rural finds with traces of precious metal provide a strong reason for a revision of present views on the social stratification of the early medieval society in Europe. Chemical microanalysis allows identifying the compositi
Czech name
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Czech description
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Type
J<sub>x</sub> - Unclassified - Peer-reviewed scientific article (Jimp, Jsc and Jost)
CEP classification
AC - Archaeology, anthropology, ethnology
OECD FORD branch
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Project
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Continuities
I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Publication year
2013
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

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