Buch, Deutsch, 324 Seiten, GB, Format (B × H): 210 mm x 298 mm, Gewicht: 1550 g
Buch, Deutsch, 324 Seiten, GB, Format (B × H): 210 mm x 298 mm, Gewicht: 1550 g
Reihe: Der Anschnitt : [...], Beiheft
ISBN: 978-3-86757-043-5
Verlag: VML Vlg Marie Leidorf
The inner Alpine Oberhalbstein valley has long been known as a Bronze Age settlement chamber and prehistoric mining landscape. Systematic mining-archaeological investigations have now brought to light several prehistoric mines and almost 90 smelting sites. Extensive series of absolute dates suggest that copper production occurred in two main phases: a Late Bronze Age phase [11th century B.C.] and an Early Iron Age phase [7th century B.C.]. In addition to the summary presentation of the mining archaeological findings, the present study puts a special focus on the detailed decoding of the processing technology. Based on typological, morphological and archaeometric investigations of smelting slag as well as ore analyses, the process chain is traced, from the mining of the ore via the processing, only traces of which are known as of yet, to the smelting. The publication contains an extensive appendix of research data.