32325
Accession Number
33129
Title Of Article Chaper
The working of copper-arsenic alloys in the Early Bronze Age and the effect on the determination of provenance
Title Of Journal Book
Proceedings of the Prehistoric Society
Volume
38
Issue
1
Pages
209-218
Reference Bibliography
Bibliog.: p. 218
Language Of Text
English
Literature Type
Serial
Literature Level
Analytic
Abstract
An analytical and metallurgical study of the arsenic-copper alloys typical of the Early Bronze Age. It is suggested that Ar-Cu alloys were purposely used and that the amount of arsenic could be controlled and that the loss of arsenic, depending on the degree of oxidation in the smelting and subsequent working, makes arsenic an unreliable element for trying to determine provenance. -- AATA
pub_id
32325