Bronze Age Shang China is characterized by its large-scale production system and distinctive ritual world. Both are vividly materialized a large number of bronze vessels with added lead. Whilst remarkable amount research effort has been channeled into the trace elemental lead isotopic analysis these vessels, successfully revealed some important fingerprints such as highly radiogenic (HRL), ther...

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...

Tepe Sagzabad, a site situated on the Qazvin Plain of north-central Iran, was excavated from 1970 to 1998 by the Institute ofArchaeology of Tehran University. Recent excavations by H. Tala’i (1997-1999) yielded some metal artifacts dating to theEarly Iron Age. Ten of these copper-based samples were investigated using inductively coupled plasma optical emissionspectroscopy (ICP-OES), scanning el...

Abstract This article examines the archaeological timber remains from HMS Buffalo (built 1813), held in Mercury Bay Museum, New Zealand, and preserved hull of Edwin Fox 1853), sitting dry dock Picton, Zealand. Both ships were constructed near Calcutta (Kolkata), India. Archaeological recording methodologies included detailed recording, dendrochronology, archaeometallurgy, organic resinous analy...

The pedagogical potential of archaeology is widely acknowledged and has led to a multitude formal informal resources, either promoting or exploiting this role. Science subjects are an essential part school curricula. Despite this, archaeological science not received equal attention, even though it among the most interdisciplinary fields with immense educational across both humanities sciences. ...

Abstract The systematic investment and rearrangement of the unearthed artefacts Longtoushan Royal Cemetery Bohai Kingdom have provided a bunch new information for archaeometallurgy research on non-ferrous metal production. We synthesised latest discoveries several related mining/smelting sites urban relics making direct approach to chain copper production in this research. SEM-EDS p-XRF unveile...