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The Provenance, Use and Circulation of Metals in the European Bronze Age: The state of debate

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cam.issuedOnline2018-07-02
dc.contributor.authorRadivojevic, M
dc.contributor.authorRoberts, Benjamin
dc.contributor.authorPernicka, Ernst
dc.contributor.authorStos-Gale, Zofia
dc.contributor.authorMartinon-Torres, Marcos
dc.contributor.authorRehren, Thilo
dc.contributor.authorBray, Peter
dc.contributor.authorBrandherm, Dirk
dc.contributor.authorLing, Johan
dc.contributor.authorMei, Jianjun
dc.contributor.authorVandkilde, Helle
dc.contributor.authorKristiansen, Kristian
dc.contributor.authorShennan, Stephen
dc.contributor.authorBroodbank, Cyprian
dc.contributor.orcidRadivojevic, Miljana [0000-0001-7329-305X]
dc.contributor.orcidMartinon-Torres, Marcos [0000-0003-2124-2837]
dc.contributor.orcidMei, Jianjun [0000-0001-8942-8633]
dc.contributor.orcidBroodbank, Cyprian [0000-0002-2176-9666]
dc.date.accessioned2018-07-06T11:04:05Z
dc.date.available2018-07-06T11:04:05Z
dc.date.issued2019
dc.description.abstractBronze is the defining metal of the European Bronze Age and has been at the center of archaeological and science-based research for well over a century. Archaeometallurgical studies have largely focused on determining the geological origin of the constituent metals, copper and tin, and their movement from producer to consumer sites. More recently, the effects of recycling, both temporal and spatial, on the composition of the circulating metal stock have received much attention. Also, discussions of the value and perception of bronze, both as individual objects and as hoarded material, continue to be the focus of scholarly debate. Here, we bring together the sometimes diverging views of several research groups on these topics in an attempt to find common ground and set out the major directions of the debate, for the benefit of future research. The paper discusses in turn issues of: geological provenance of new metal entering the system and how to determine and interpret it; the circulation of extant metal across time and space, and how this is seen in changing compositional signatures; and some economic aspects of metal production. These include the role of metal-producing communities within larger economic settings, quantifying the amount of metal present at any one time within a society, and aspects of hoarding, a distinctive European phenomenon that is less prevalent in the Middle Eastern and Asian Bronze Age societies.
dc.description.sponsorshipFunded by the McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research
dc.identifier.doi10.17863/CAM.25218
dc.identifier.eissn1573-7756
dc.identifier.issn1573-7756
dc.identifier.urihttps://www.repository.cam.ac.uk/handle/1810/277883
dc.languageen
dc.language.isoeng
dc.publisherSpringer Nature
dc.publisher.urlhttps://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10814-018-9123-9
dc.rightsAttribution 4.0 International
dc.rights.urihttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
dc.subjectBronze Age
dc.subjectmetal
dc.subjectmining
dc.subjecttin
dc.subjectprovenance
dc.subjectlead isotope
dc.subjecttrace element
dc.subjectcirculation
dc.subjectrecycling
dc.subjecttrade
dc.subjecthoarding
dc.titleThe Provenance, Use and Circulation of Metals in the European Bronze Age: The state of debate
dc.typeArticle
dcterms.dateAccepted2018-01-18
prism.endingPage55
prism.issueIdentifier2
prism.publicationNameJournal of Archaeological Research
prism.startingPage1
prism.volume27
rioxxterms.licenseref.startdate2018-01-18
rioxxterms.licenseref.urihttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
rioxxterms.typeJournal Article/Review
rioxxterms.versionVoR
rioxxterms.versionofrecord10.1007/s10814-018-9123-9

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