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Michael Bode, Moritz Kiderlen, Giorgos Mastrotheodoros, Moritz Jansen, Erez Ben-Yosef, Omri Yagel, Martina Renzi, Eleni Filippaki, Yannis Bassiakos, Anno Hein, Andreas Hauptmann

New Archaeometallurgical Fingerprints of Copper and Slag from Early Iron Age Smelting Sites in Faynan and Timna

Anthropology

The copper deposits of Faynan and Timna have been exploited in two major economic cycles: a Chalcolithic – Early Bronze Age  cycle, an...

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The study, "New Archaeometallurgical Fingerprints of Copper and Slag from Early Iron Age Smelting Sites in Faynan and Timna," presents a compelling ar...

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Elnaz Rashidian

Geoarchaeological Investigations in the Bronze Age Ore Beneficiation Landscape of Troiboden (Province of Salzburg, Austria)

Geography

Mitterberg is the largest known Middle Bronze Age copper mining area in the Austrian Alps. During the course of the 2011 excavation  c...

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The article, "Geoarchaeological Investigations in the Bronze Age Ore Beneficiation Landscape of Troiboden (Province of Salzburg, Austria)," presents a...

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Stephen Merkel

Carolingian and Ottonian Brass Production in Westphalia Evidence from the Crucibles and Slag of Dortmund and Soest

History

The abundant new crucible and slag finds from the Thier-Brauerei excavation in the center of medieval Dortmund have provided a  stimul...

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This paper presents a compelling and detailed investigation into Carolingian and Ottonian brass production in Westphalia, drawing on a wealth of new a...

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Andreas Hauptmann, Sabine Klein, Richard Zettler, Ursula Baumer, Patrick Dietemann

On the Making and Provenancing of Pigments from the Early Dynastic Royal Tombs of Ur, Mesopotamia

Materials

A total of 50 cosmetic pigments from the Royal Cemetery of the Sumerian city of Ur, Mesopotamia, now in the collections of the Penn  M...

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The study "On the Making and Provenancing of Pigments from the Early Dynastic Royal Tombs of Ur, Mesopotamia" presents a comprehensive archaeometric i...

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Andreas Hauptmann, Sabine Klein

An Introduction

History

The Ur workshop was organized to discuss the progress and preliminary results of the ongoing research project. The first results obtained i...

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This submission, succinctly titled "An Introduction," transparently serves as a prefatory piece for a collection of articles or abstracts stemming fro...

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Andreas Hauptmann, Sabine Klein

Golden Artifacts from the Royal Tombs of Ur, Mesopotamia

History

Visual inspection of the gold artifacts from Ur shows that there are variations of color and this should be to be expected with gold alloys...

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The paper, "Golden Artifacts from the Royal Tombs of Ur, Mesopotamia," proposes a fascinating investigation into the advanced metallurgical practices...

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Sabine Klein, Susan La Niece, Andreas Hauptmann

Objects from the Ur collection of the British Museum Sampling and Analytical Investigations

Materials

In addition to the material from the Penn Museum, which was already accessible in generous volume, access was requested to The British Muse...

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This paper presents an important analytical investigation into a selection of metallic objects from the Ur collection housed at the British Museum. Bu...

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Moritz Jansen, Andreas Hauptmann, Sabine Klein

Where Does the Gold from the Cemetery of Ur Come From? – Provenancing Gold Sources Using Analytical Methods

Geology

The focus of our analysis is on the richly decorated Early Dynastic Royal Tombs. These graves are mixed in date and grouped here as  A...

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This manuscript addresses a compelling and historically significant question: the ultimate origin of the substantial gold artifacts recovered from the...

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Kim Benzel

Technologies of Jewelry at Ur: the Physics & Metaphysics of Skilled Crafting

Anthropology

In this brief examination of Pu-abi’s jewelry, several technical aspects must reiterated and stressed because they have as much conceptual...

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This paper presents a highly insightful and compelling argument regarding the sophisticated interplay between material science, artistic choice, and c...

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This paper, "Technological Aspects of Selected Gold Objects from Ur - Preliminary Results and Perspectives," addresses a fascinating and historically...