PEŠKA, Jaroslav and Jindřich ŠTELCL. Results of micrometallographic analysis of metalworking tools in graves of metallurgists in Moravia/Czech Republic. Archaeometry. Wiley, 2023, vol. 65, No 4, p. 771-797. ISSN 0003-813X. Available from: https://dx.doi.org/10.1111/arcm.12843.
Other formats:   BibTeX LaTeX RIS
Basic information
Original name Results of micrometallographic analysis of metalworking tools in graves of metallurgists in Moravia/Czech Republic
Authors PEŠKA, Jaroslav (guarantor) and Jindřich ŠTELCL (203 Czech Republic, belonging to the institution).
Edition Archaeometry, Wiley, 2023, 0003-813X.
Other information
Original language English
Type of outcome Article in a journal
Field of Study 60102 Archaeology
Country of publisher United States of America
Confidentiality degree is not subject to a state or trade secret
WWW URL
Impact factor Impact factor: 1.600 in 2022
RIV identification code RIV/00216224:14310/23:00130101
Organization unit Faculty of Science
Doi http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/arcm.12843
UT WoS 000911998700001
Keywords in English BBC; energy-dispersive X-ray microanalysis (EDX); MCWC; metallurgical toolkit; metallurgists' graves; Moravia
Tags rivok
Tags International impact, Reviewed
Changed by Changed by: Mgr. Marie Šípková, DiS., učo 437722. Changed: 4/4/2024 16:05.
Abstract
The number of finds relating to metalworking, without evidence of mining and processing facilities, is very limited. In Final Eneolith graves of specialized metallurgists that have occurred, they contain a metal-founding or metalsmithing toolkit, whose origins were from eastern Europe (the Maykop, Yamnaya Culture). Such metallurgical tools may have reached central Europe as part of the so-called Yamnaya Package before the onset of the Bee Beaker Culture (BBC); and unlike the Pontic region, these two types of metallurgy separated here. There are found an accumulation of metallurgists' graves in Moravia, where the complete metalworking toolkit is deposited in a predefined place in richly furnished male graves with a distinctive funerary architecture that exhibit a clear relationship to the grave goods. EDX-analysis detected a high content of metals (Cu, Ag, Au, Au–Ag alloy) on all working surfaces of stone tools, grinders, and boar tusks used for the final treatment of their metal products. This makes us believe that the used artefacts were laid as symbolical objects in the graves of these craftsmen who perfectly knew these advanced technologies. Due to their knowledge, their social significance gradually rose and finally reached the level of social elites, who were usually buried in a spectacular manner, including the quantity of grave goods (Überausstattung) and the pars pro toto deposition in one part of the finds.
PrintDisplayed: 18/7/2024 16:56