Antimony as a raw material in ancient metal and glass making: provenancing Georgian LBA metallic Sb by isotope analysis
Sb was frequently used as a raw material, both in ancient glass-making (as an opacifier and decolouriser) and metallurgy (either as an alloying element or as a pure metal). Despite this ubiquity, antimony production has only occasionally been studied and questions concerning its provenance are still...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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Taylor & Francis Group
2019-12-01
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| Series: | Science and Technology of Archaeological Research |
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| Online Access: | http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/20548923.2019.1681138 |