Investigation on Manufacturing Process in Some Elamite Copper Alloy Artefacts from Haft Tappeh, South-west Iran

Investigation on Manufacturing Process in Some Elamite Copper Alloy Artefacts from Haft Tappeh, South-west Iran

The archaeometallurgy of copper have been pioneer technologies in ancient Iran and goes back to about ten thousand years ago in Iranian Plateau [1, 2]. The Haft Tappeh Middle Elamite Site is located in Southwest Iran and have been an important city belonging to early phase of Middle Elamite period (14th century BCE) [3, 4]. Based on various metallurgical evidences found in archaeological excava...

Foliar content of nutrient elements in at haft tappeh iran

Application of Scanning Electron and Atomic Force Mode Microscopy on inscription from Proto-Elamite period in Tappeh Sofalin

The study of cultural heritage artifacts and the research of a protection and restoration intervention create with - and are often limited to - a complete characterization of their surface. This is not only factual for museum objects, but also for archaeological artifacts, because the object as it was discovered may contain precious unknown information that could be lost by too much aggressive ...

archaeometallurgy and smelting technology of copper in haft tappeh ancient site of khuzestan; the second millennium bc

in this paper, the evidences and remnants of archaeometallurgical activities in elamite site of haft tappeh (14th century bc) have investigated and identification of archaeometallurgical materials have been done based on analytical investigations. sem-eds analysis and metallography were used to identify the chemical composition and microstructural features of archaeometallurgical materials in h...

Investigation of depleted uranium contamination in south west of Iraq

  ABSTRACT   Background : The application of DU emanation for first time contaminated certain areas in the south west region of Iraq after the second Gulf war (1991). These contaminated areas were discovered in 1994. Radioactive contamination was detected using the nuclear enterprise PCM5/1 in soil samples collected from two regions near by grazing lands. This study was done for assessment of D...