Bronze Casting and Bronze Alloys in Ancient China

Bronze, Jade, Gold, and Ivory: Valuable Objects in Ancient Sichuan

If negotiations about value are essentially political (Graeber 2001:115), our understanding of past political systems is illuminated by an understanding of how and through what processes value is attributed to objects in a particular context. We cannot examine this “object value” through a focus on only one attribute or set of attributes, such as scarcity of raw material or labor investment, bu...

Rendering of Binary Alloys - Example and Validation with Bronze

We present the main results of a complete study concerning a small metallic statuette. A collaboration involving metallurgy, optics, computer graphics, archaeology and engineering specialists was needed. The virtual optical aspect computations obtained by spectral simulation is founded on optical measurements of metallic samples wether smooth or rough. The scientific study concerns a small stat...

Chemical Investigation of Two Ancient Bronze Statuettes Found in Greece

Synthesis of dual phase bronze alloys from elemental nanoparticle constituents

Dual phase (a þ b) copper–tin alloys were synthesized from elemental nanoparticle precursors following consolidation, annealing and quenching steps. The precursors were derived from the sequential reduction of tin and copper salts in ethanolic solution. The dual phase microstructure exhibits a duplex character with a mixture of Cu-rich and Sn-rich (a þ b) regions. 2004 Published by Elsevier Ltd...

Neolithic and Bronze Age

This document comprises a Stage 2 resource assessment and draft research agenda for the Neolithic and Bronze Age (Early – Middle) of the East Midlands. It builds upon the assessments for Derbyshire, Nottinghamshire, Lincolnshire, Leicestershire, Rutland and Northamptonshire presented at a seminar at County Hall, Leicester on 28.1.1999 (Bishop 1999; Chapman 1999, Clay 1999a; Membury 1999; Myers ...