Early Bronze Age metalwork in Central Anatolia – an archaeometric view from the hamlet
Date
2014Source Title
Praehistorische Zeitschrift
Print ISSN
0079-4848
Electronic ISSN
1613-0804
Publisher
Walter de Gruyter GmbH
Volume
89
Issue
2
Pages
280 - 290
Language
English
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Abstract
The following contribution discusses the results
of spectroscopic analyses carried out on metal artefacts
from the Early Bronze Age cemetery of Kalınkaya-
Toptaştepe in central Anatolia. Given that archaeometric
data from 3rd- millennium BCE Central Anatolia are still
quite sparse, tend to stem mainly from earlier central
places, and the assemblages from village sites have so far
remained largely unexplored, the study we present here
is primarily intended to draw much needed attention to
the data that are available. Copper-arsenic alloys exist
alongside ‘true’ bronzes (copper-tin alloys), and contamination,
for example by nickel, can yield much information
about specific deposits. The results obtained provide good
insights into the use of metals and traditional alloying
techniques on a minor settlement at the end of the Anatolian
Early Bronze Age.