Bronze Age tin rings from the Tollense valley in northeastern Germany

Krüger, Joachim; Nagel, Frank; Nagel, Sonja; Jantzen, Detlef; Lampe, Reinhard; Dräger, Jana; Lidke, Gundula; Mecking, Oliver; Schüler, Tim; Terberger, Thomas

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“…Map of Bronze Age sites related to tin mining or processing as well as tin ingots and objects possibly indicating exchange networks and tin circulation routes. 1, Schellerhau (this study); 2, Kestel (Yener et al, ); 3, Hisarcık (Yener et al, ); 4, Deh Hosein (Nezafati et al, ); 5, Mount Cer (Huska et al, ); 6, Uluburun shipwreck (Hauptmann et al, ; Pulak, ); 7, Cape Gelydonia shipwreck (Bass et al, ); 8, Kefar Samir shipwreck (Raban & Galili, ); 9, Salcombe shipwreck (Wang et al, ); 10, Säckingen (Gersbach, ); 11, Sursee‐Gammainseli; 12, Zürich‐Mozartstraße (Nielsen, ); 13, Mochlos (Whitley, ); 14, Caerloggas (Penhallurick (); Tylecote et al (); 15, Dean Moor (Fox, ); 16, St. Renan (Mahé‐le Carlier et al, ); 17, Tollensetal (Krüger et al, ); 18, Buxheim (Möslein & Rieder, ); 19, Exloo (Haveman, Sheridan, Shortland, & Eremin, ); 20, Sutton Veny (Annable & Simpson, ); 21, Thermi (Muhly, ); 22, Whitehorse Hill (Jones, ); 23, Peschiera (Primas, ); 24, Trindhøj grave C (Randsborg & Christensen, ); 25, Hitzkirch‐Moos; 26, Zug‐Sumpf; 27, Zürich‐Wollishofen; 28, Zürich‐ Großer Haffner; 29, Möringen; 30, Hauterive‐Champréveyres; 31, Cortaillod‐Est; 32, Concise (Vaud); 33, Grandson‐Corcelettes; 34, Onnens; 35, Estavayer‐le‐Lac; (Nielsen, ); 36, Unteruhldingen‐Stollenwiesen (Köninger, ); 37, Bargeroosterveld (Glasbergen, ); 38, Storehøj Barde; 39, Store Kongehøj; 40, Lille Dragshøj; 41, Guldhøj A outer grave (Randsborg & Christensen, ); 42, Alacahöyük grave A (Yalçın, ); 43, Schwabmünchen‐Mittelstetten, 44, Poing (Massy, ; Schwarzberg, Massy, & Mahnke, ); 45, Cerro de San Cristóbal (Rodríguez Díaz et al, ) [Color figure can be viewed at wileyonlinelibrary.com]…”

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“…These data are supplemented by inland finds of single ingots reported from Säckingen (Figure .10), Sursee‐Gammainseli (Figure .11), and Zürich‐Mozartstraße (Figure .12, all Switzerland; Nielsen, ) and poorly preserved remains from Mochlos (Figure .13, Greece; Whitley, ), and an ingot from the mid‐3rd millennium from Alacahöyük (Figure .42, Turkey; Yalçın, ). Recent studies have pointed out that there is a considerable number of personal adornments like beads, rings, pendants, and decorative applications made of tin that may be also related to some kind of raw material circulation (Krüger et al, ; Nielsen, ).…”

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Evidence for Bronze Age and Medieval tin placer mining in the Erzgebirge mountains, Saxony (Germany)

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Tin is an essential raw material both for the copper–tin alloys developed during the Early Bronze Age and for the casting of tableware in the Medieval period. Secondary geological deposits in the form of placers (cassiterite) provide easily accessible sources but have often been reworked several times during land‐use history. In fact, evidence for the earliest phase of tin mining during the Bronze Age has not yet been confirmed for any area in Europe, stimulating an ongoing debate on this issue. For this study, a broad range of methods (sedimentology, pedology, palynology, anthracology, OSL/14C‐dating, and micromorphology) was applied both within the extraction zone of placer mining and the downstream alluvial sediments at Schellerhau site in the upper eastern Erzgebirge (Germany). The results indicate that the earliest local removal of topsoil and processing of cassiterite‐bearing weathered granite occurred already in the early second millennium BC, thus coinciding with the early and middle Bronze Age period. Placer mining resumed in this area during the Medieval period, probably as early as the 13th century AD. A peak of alluvial sedimentation during the mid‐15th century AD is probably related to the acquisition of this region by the Elector of Saxony and the subsequent promotion of mining.

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Evidence for Bronze Age and Medieval tin placer mining in the Erzgebirge mountains, Saxony (Germany)

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“…While the Oxford Group identified a single type of arsenical copper metal in the early second millennium BC Europe (called Copper Group 2), SAM distinguished different compositional groups showing development patterns of distribution of the "Irish" and "Iberian" arsenical copper groups in the late third and early second millennium BC Europe, leading to a different interpretation (From Junghans et al 1968;prepared by E. Pernicka) Bronze Age material culture or settlement activity, as at San Cristóbal de Logrosán in Spain or St. Renan, Finistère, in northwestern France (Mahé-le Carlier et al 2001;Rodríguez et al 2013). Bronze Age tin objects remain extremely rare and invariably comprise small beads, pendants, and other ornaments, such as those found at Tollense in northeastern Germany (Krüger et al 2012). More substantial Bronze Age tin ingots are rarer still, whether found individually as at Sursee-Gammainseli in Switzerland (Nielsen 2014) or in larger groups, such as the 40 ingots found at the shipwreck site of Salcombe in southwestern England (Wang et al 2016).…”

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The Provenance, Use, and Circulation of Metals in the European Bronze Age: The State of Debate

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Bronze is the defining metal of the European Bronze Age and has been at the center of archaeological and science-based research for well over a century. Archaeometallurgical studies have largely focused on determining the geological origin of the constituent metals, copper and tin, and their movement from producer to consumer sites. More recently, the effects of recycling, both temporal and spatial, on the composition of the circulating metal stock have received much attention. Also, discussions of the value and perception of bronze, both as individual objects and as hoarded material, continue to be the focus of scholarly debate. Here, we bring together the sometimes-diverging views of several research groups on these topics in an attempt to find common ground and set out the major directions of the debate, for the benefit of future research. The paper discusses how to determine and interpret the geological provenance of new metal entering the system; the circulation of extant metal across time and space, and how this is seen in changing compositional signatures; and some economic aspects of metal production. These include the role of metal-producing communities within larger economic settings, quantifying the amount of metal present at any one time within a society, and aspects of hoarding, a distinctive European phenomenon that is less prevalent in the Middle Eastern and Asian Bronze Age societies.

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“…El estaño, la materia prima utilizada para su fabricación, es alóctono en las Baleares y de origen por ahora desconocido. Hay otros hallazgos de objetos de estaño en la Edad del Bronce europea, pero no son objetos frecuentes (Harding 2003: 234;Primas 2003;Rovira 2007;Krüger et al 2012).…”

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“…Es probable que este sea uno de los motivos por los cuales no es frecuente encontrar objetos de este metal en yacimientos arqueológicos. Tenemos otros ejemplos de anillas y espirales de estaño de la Edad del Bronce con contenidos en Pb que, posiblemente, se hayan conservado en buenas condiciones por esta causa (Krüger et al 2012).…”

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Caracterización isotópica y elemental de los metales de Cova des Pas (Ferreries, Menorca). Una necrópolis de transición del Bronce Final al Hierro

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Se presenta el estudio de los objetos metálicos hallados en Cova des Pas (900-800 cal AC), una necrópolis situada en el barranco de Trebaluger (Ferreries, Menorca), excavada entre los años 2005 y 2006 por un equipo formado por miembros de la Universitat de les Illes Balears y la Universitat de Barcelona. El conjunto está compuesto por objetos de bronce y pequeñas anillas de estaño, un elemento alóctono en las Islas Baleares. Se describen las piezas metálicas en sus respectivos contextos arqueológicos, atendiendo a los aspectos tecnológicos que aportan información para caracterizar las producciones metalúrgicas de esta cronología en Menorca. A partir de los resultados de las analíticas de composición elemental y de isótopos de plomo, se argumenta la relación de la mayoría de los bronces con depósitos minerales de Menorca. No obstante, confrontando dichos datos con los publicados actualmente, se deduce que dos piezas de bronce muestran concordancia con minerales cupríferos de Cerdeña y tres con minerales de Linares (Jaén).

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Bronze Age tin rings from the Tollense valley in northeastern Germany

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Evidence for Bronze Age and Medieval tin placer mining in the Erzgebirge mountains, Saxony (Germany)

Evidence for Bronze Age and Medieval tin placer mining in the Erzgebirge mountains, Saxony (Germany)

The Provenance, Use, and Circulation of Metals in the European Bronze Age: The State of Debate

Caracterización isotópica y elemental de los metales de Cova des Pas (Ferreries, Menorca). Una necrópolis de transición del Bronce Final al Hierro

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