Forms of copper and alloying components in the slags of the ancient settlement Ustye (South Ural)

Authors

  • Ivan Aleksandrovich Blinov Institute of Mineralogy of the Ural Branch of RAS, Miass, Russian Federation
  • Maksim Nikolaevich Ankushev Institute of Mineralogy of the Ural Branch of RAS, Miass, Russian Federation

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.14529/ssh180201

Keywords:

Settlement Ustye, The bronze age in the Southern Urals, Metallurgy of the Bronze Age, Ancient metallurgical slag, Sintashta’s culture, Petrovka’s culture

Abstract

The Ustye Bronze Age settlement belongs to the Sintashta and Petrovka cultural-historical period,
when arsenic and tin bronzes respectively dominated. The copper and alloying elements were examined
during the analysis of metallurgical slags that manifested the alloyage of metals was carried out
used the ‘ore-to-ore’ method. Partially, non-ferrous metals were included in non-metallic phases as
followed: oxides, silicates, and sulfides that indicated high losses during the metallurgical process.
The tin was widely used in bronzes that marks the usage of unusual ores for the Southern Urals. It is
fair to consider the relationships with adjacent regions and suggest the routs.

Author Biographies

Ivan Aleksandrovich Blinov, Institute of Mineralogy of the Ural Branch of RAS, Miass, Russian Federation

Institute of Mineralogy of the Ural Branch of RAS, Miass, Russian Federation

Maksim Nikolaevich Ankushev, Institute of Mineralogy of the Ural Branch of RAS, Miass, Russian Federation

Institute of Mineralogy of the Ural Branch of RAS, Miass, Russian Federation

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Historical Sciences