Название: Social processes in Ancient Eurasia and development of types of alloys in metallurgical production
Год издания: 2017
Тип публикации: Публикации в зарубежных изданиях
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Библиографическое описание | Grigoriev S. A. Social processes in Ancient Eurasia and development of types of alloys in metallurgical production / S. Grigoriev // Archaeoastronomy and Ancient Technologies. 2017. Vol. 5. № 2. Р. 17–41. |
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Аннотация | The article is devoted to the main regularities in changes of types of alloying in the Eurasian Bronze Age. The aim of the article is to show the reasons and mechanisms of these changes. The article is based on researches by the author of the Eurasian Bronze Age slags which showed direct link of use of particular alloys with types of ore and gangue. Deviations from this rule are rare. Social processes stimulating expansion of metal consumption were a cornerstone of these changes. It led to change of the ore base that resulted in emergence of appropriate technologies of ore smelting, technologies and types of alloying and, eventually, morphology of metal artifacts. The mass transition to arsenic copper or to use of copper-arsenic ore became possible with transition from smelting rather pure pieces of malachite to smelting ore with fragments of gangue. This type of alloying was possible in case of low-temperature smelting of oxidized ores. After the abrupt territorial expansion of metallurgical technologies and increase in amounts of metallurgical production at the beginning of the Late Bronze Age, the mass use of ores from refractory rocks and coper-iron sulfides |
Ключевые слова | Bronze Age, Northern Eurasia, tin, arsenic, metallurgical technologies, alloying, ore smelting, social processes. |
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