New Bronze Age absolute datings for Solana Del Bepo Copper Mine (Ulldemolins, Tarragona province, Spain)
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- dc.contributor.author Rafel Fontanals, Núria
- dc.contributor.author Hunt Ortiz, Mark A.
- dc.contributor.author Montero, Ignacio
- dc.contributor.author Soriano, Eni
- dc.contributor.author Delgado-Raack, Selina
- dc.contributor.author Marín, Dioscórides
- dc.date.accessioned 2024-11-22T14:25:44Z
- dc.date.available 2024-11-22T14:25:44Z
- dc.date.issued 2019
- dc.description.abstract We present the results of the archaeological excavation carried out at the Solana del Bepo mine that have allowed us to contextualise the surface finds made in the 1940s. It had been possible to locate the prehistoric workings and to characterise theminedores by pXRF elemental, -XRF and LIA analyses. The mining im-plements found in the excavation and the earlier surface finds were typologically described and classified. To precise the chronology a set of samples were radiocarbon dated. The results confirm that Solana del Bepo was an active copper mine at least throughout the first half of the second millennium cal BCE, that is the Ear-ly/Middle Bronze Age of northeast of the Iberian Peninsula. The studies carried out there and in other mines in the county of Priorat (province of Tarragona) allow us to advance some considerations regarding the na-ture of the exploitation of local copper ore, its chronology and the regional dispersion of the metal obtained.
- dc.description.sponsorship To the financiers of the projects “Mineral and metal resources, exchange and trade in prehistory and proto-history on the Iberian Peninsula (Catalonia and the north of the Valencian Country)” of the Spanish Gov-ernment’s Ministry of Economy and Competitiveness (HAR2014-54012-P) and “Mining and Metallurgy in southern Catalonia: from prehistory to the mediaeval period” of the Regional Government of Catalonia, who have made this study possible.The authors also wish to express their gratitude for the technical and human support received from the SGIker of the UPV/EHU and the European financing (FEDER and ESF) and the X-ray Laboratory at the CENIM-CSIC.
- dc.description.sponsorship To the financiers of the projects “Mineral and metal resources, exchange and trade in prehistory and proto-history on the Iberian Peninsula (Catalonia and the north of the Valencian Country)” of the Spanish Gov-ernment’s Ministry of Economy and Competitiveness (HAR2014-54012-P) and “Mining and Metallurgy in southern Catalonia: from prehistory to the mediaeval period” of the Regional Government of Catalonia, who have made this study possible.The authors also wish to express their gratitude for the technical and human support received from the SGIker of the UPV/EHU and the European financing (FEDER and ESF) and the X-ray Laboratory at the CENIM-CSIC.
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- dc.identifier.citation Rafel N, Hunt Ortiz MA, Montero I, Soriano I, Delgado-Raack S, Marín D. New Bronze Age absolute datings for Solana Del Bepo Copper Mine (Ulldemolins, Tarragona province, Spain). Mediterranean archaeology and archaeometry. 2019;19(1):9-24. DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.2585944
- dc.identifier.doi http://dx.doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.2585944
- dc.identifier.issn 1108-9628
- dc.identifier.uri http://hdl.handle.net/10230/68793
- dc.language.iso eng
- dc.publisher Forest Publishing Limited
- dc.relation.projectID info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/ES/1PE/HAR2014-54012-P
- dc.relation.projectID Mediterranean archaeology and archaeometry. 2019;19(1):9-24.
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- dc.subject.keyword Mining
- dc.subject.keyword Early-to Middle-Bronze Age
- dc.subject.keyword Mining picks
- dc.subject.keyword Composition analysis
- dc.subject.keyword Lead isotopes analysis
- dc.subject.keyword Copper ore circulation
- dc.title New Bronze Age absolute datings for Solana Del Bepo Copper Mine (Ulldemolins, Tarragona province, Spain)
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