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@article{1551284,
author = {Tolksdorf, Johan Friedrich and Schroder, Frank and Petr, Libor and Herbig, Christoph and Kaiser, Knut and Kocar, Petr and Fulling, Alexander and Heinrich, Sussan and Honig, Heide and Hemker, Christiane},
article_location = {Hoboken},
article_number = {2},
doi = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/gea.21763},
keywords = {alluvial sedimentation; anthracology; Bronze Age economy; micromorphology; OSL; palaeoenvironmental reconstruction; tin mining},
language = {eng},
issn = {0883-6353},
journal = {GEOARCHAEOLOGY-AN INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL},
title = {Evidence for Bronze Age and Medieval tin placer mining in the Erzgebirge mountains, Saxony (Germany)},
url = {https://doi.org/10.1002/gea.21763},
volume = {35},
year = {2020}
}
TY - JOUR
ID - 1551284
AU - Tolksdorf, Johan Friedrich - Schroder, Frank - Petr, Libor - Herbig, Christoph - Kaiser, Knut - Kocar, Petr - Fulling, Alexander - Heinrich, Sussan - Honig, Heide - Hemker, Christiane
PY - 2020
TI - Evidence for Bronze Age and Medieval tin placer mining in the Erzgebirge mountains, Saxony (Germany)
JF - GEOARCHAEOLOGY-AN INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL
VL - 35
IS - 2
SP - 198-216
EP - 198-216
PB - Wiley
SN - 08836353
KW - alluvial sedimentation
KW - anthracology
KW - Bronze Age economy
KW - micromorphology
KW - OSL
KW - palaeoenvironmental reconstruction
KW - tin mining
UR - https://doi.org/10.1002/gea.21763
L2 - https://doi.org/10.1002/gea.21763
N2 - 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.
ER -
TOLKSDORF, Johan Friedrich, Frank SCHRODER, Libor PETR, Christoph HERBIG, Knut KAISER, Petr KOCAR, Alexander FULLING, Sussan HEINRICH, Heide HONIG and Christiane HEMKER. Evidence for Bronze Age and Medieval tin placer mining in the Erzgebirge mountains, Saxony (Germany). \textit{GEOARCHAEOLOGY-AN INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL}. Hoboken: Wiley, 2020, vol.~35, No~2, p.~198-216. ISSN~0883-6353. Available from: https://dx.doi.org/10.1002/gea.21763.
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