A multi-disciplinary approach to the study of an assemblage of copper based finds assigned to the prehistory and proto-history of Fucino, Abruzzo, Italy
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Objects show to have been frequently repaired in antiquity by additions of metals and alloys. Particular attention is given to the determination of chemical compositions and technologies of the various elements, constitutive of the artefacts or parts of reparations, in order to compare data either inside the same artefact and among objects showing similar reparation interventions. Chemical analyses are carried on by the portable ED-XRF wich provides accurate quantitative results, absolutely comparable with data of similar bronze characterization projects as the San Francesco hoard in Bologna and the Chieti archaeological museum. Macro metallographic analysis of finds is carried on by optical microscope. At the same time, bronzes present very different patinas, which nature is attributable either to the different tipologies of deposition and conservation, and to the different chemical compositions, finishing treatments and reparations to which objects have been submitted in antiquity as consumption products. For the database drawing up, chemical, technological and traceological parameters are considered with the same attention than classical data, as the typolocical ones for instance, in order to build a framework able to support crossed relationships between materials. Relationships among such parameters, moreover, could provide also useful data about dynamics relate to the objects assemblage. The Fucino prehistorical and proto-historical archaeology did not give back clear contexts associated to metallurgic processes but, on the other hand, the difficulty of finding such contexts earlier than the full Iron Age is known. At the same time, some finds from Ortucchio and Celano, as already quoted, have been recently catalogued as slag and their chemical compositions could constitute a further parameter for the interpretation of the Fucino bronzes.
A multi-disciplinary approach to the study of an assemblage of copper based finds assigned to the prehistory and proto-history of Fucino, Abruzzo, Italy
Weitere Titelangaben:
Eine multidisziplinäre Methode zur Untersuchung von Fundstücken aus Kupfer basierten Gemengen mit prähistorischer und protohistorischer Datierung in Fucino, Abruzzen, Italien