Copper and Bronze: Bronze Age Metalworking in Context

Kienlin, Tobias L.

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“…Nevertheless the small scale (Rovira Llorens -Montero Ruiz 2013: 232 -234), the technical capabilities of the artisans are comparable to other areas of Atlantic Europe, mastering all the then known casting and forging techniques (Pare 2000;Senna -Martinez et al 2011;Kienlin 2013;Valério et al 2015a).…”

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Foundry in the Late Bronze Age Baiões/Santa Luzia Cultural Group: some reflections starting from a new metallic mould for unifacial palstaves

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During the last quarter of a century, progress on the understanding of metallurgical practices of the Baiões / Santa Luzia cultural group of Central Portugal produced results that allowed us to better understand and characterize a fundamental cultural group of the Iberian Late Bronze Age (LBA). However, the study of the foundry moulds lacks a convenient interpretive synthesis. The discovery of a new exemplar of metallic mould for single-faceted palstaves – one of the types that characterize Central Portugal LBA metallurgy – creates the opportunity to, starting with its archaeometallurgical characterization, produce an overview of Baiões / Santa Luzia moulds and foundry procedures, namely for the palstaves moulds that, until now, are mostly known in the area of this cultural group.

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Foundry in the Late Bronze Age Baiões/Santa Luzia Cultural Group: some reflections starting from a new metallic mould for unifacial palstaves

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“…The adoption of the bivalve mould for the casting palstave axes meant that after the sprue and any ‘flashes’ of metal were removed (by ‘fettling’), the as‐cast form was often very close to the desired shape of the tool (Rowlands, 1976, p. 71; Kienlin, 2013, p. 427). The use of metallographic techniques has permitted the exploration of the microstructure of archaeological metals, contributing to the understanding of palstave axe design and manufacture.…”

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The mechanised testing and sequential wear‐analysis of replica Bronze Age palstave blades

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There have been few attempts to conduct highly controlled laboratory experiments to isolate how wear propagates on metal artefacts with differing metallurgy during simulated use. This reflects a lack of appreciation for the underlying structure of materials within the production of reference datasets for metalwork wear analysis. Here, we present the use of a drop tower (Instron CEAST 9350) to reconstruct use on replica Bronze Age palstave axes with archaeologically relevant microstructures. The development, form, and properties of surface wear at the cutting edge were sequentially analysed by low-power microscopy (digital), high-power microscopy (Scanning Electron Microscope), and microhardness indentation. Major deformations of the blade were documented by photography. This intensive approach reveals the impact of abrasive wear associated with sharpening and use, as well as the frequency and morphology of larger deformations generated by repeated impact-all of which, we demonstrate, can be overtly modified by subtle differences in metallurgy.

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“…Although it was perhaps preceded by the smelting of lead (Krysko 1980;Gale and Stos-Gale 1981), locating the time and place of the first exploitation of copper and its alloys has been a major focus of academic endeavour. It now seems reasonably certain that the first smelted copper in Eurasia is to be found in or near Anatolia, perhaps in the seventh millennium BCE, and spreading to South-East Europe and Western Asia by the fifth millennium BCE (Roberts et al 2009;Kienlin 2013). The knowledge of copper smelting subsequently spread to all of Eurasia by the second millennium BCE, via a process seen by most as a form of direct transmission.…”

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Copper and Bronze: Bronze Age Metalworking in Context

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Foundry in the Late Bronze Age Baiões/Santa Luzia Cultural Group: some reflections starting from a new metallic mould for unifacial palstaves

Foundry in the Late Bronze Age Baiões/Santa Luzia Cultural Group: some reflections starting from a new metallic mould for unifacial palstaves

The mechanised testing and sequential wear‐analysis of replica Bronze Age palstave blades

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