Revisiting “Tin in South-eastern Europe?”

Q2 Arts and Humanities Starinar Pub Date : 2020-01-01 DOI:10.2298/sta2070085p
W. Powell, Ognjen Mladenović, Steffanie R. Cruse, A. Bankoff, R. Mathur
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The important role of the Balkans in the origin and development of metallurgy is well established with respect to copper. In addition, Aleksandar Durman, in his 1997 paper ?Tin in South-eastern Europe??, essentially initiated studies into the role of the Balkans in Europe?s Bronze Age tin economy. He identified six geologically favourable sites for tin mineralisation and associated fluvial placer deposits in the former Yugoslavian republics, and suggested that these may have added to the tin supply of the region. The viability of two of these sites has been confirmed (Mt Cer and Bukulja, Serbia) but the exploitation potential for the other locations has remained untested. River gravels from these four sites (Motajica and Prosara in Bosnia and Herzegovina; Bujanovac in Serbia; Ograzden in North Macedonia) were obtained by stream sluicing and panning. The sites of Prosara and Bujanovac were found to be barren with respect to cassiterite (SnO2). Streams flowing from Motajica and Ograzden were both found to contain cassiterite, but in amounts several orders of magnitude less than at Mt Cer and Bukulja. Although it is possible that minor tin recovery occurred at Motajica and Ograzden, it is unlikely that they could have contributed meaningfully to regional tin trade. This is supported by the fact that the isotopic signature (?124Sn) of cassiterite from Motajica is highly enriched in light isotopes of tin compared to that associated with Late Bronze Age artefacts of the region.
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重温“锡在东南欧?”
在铜方面,巴尔干地区在冶金学的起源和发展中所起的重要作用是公认的。此外,亚历山大·杜尔曼(Aleksandar Durman)在其1997年的论文《锡在东南欧?》从本质上开始研究巴尔干在欧洲的角色?青铜时代的锡经济。他在前南斯拉夫共和国确定了6个有利于锡矿化和相关河流砂矿的地质地点,并提出这些地点可能增加了该地区的锡供应。其中两个地点(塞尔山和塞尔维亚布库尔贾)的可行性已得到证实,但其他地点的开发潜力仍未得到检验。这四个地点的河流砾石(波斯尼亚和黑塞哥维那的莫塔希卡和普罗萨拉;塞尔维亚的布雅诺瓦奇;Ograzden(北马其顿)是通过河道泄洪和淘沙获得的。发现Prosara和Bujanovac遗址在锡石(SnO2)方面是贫瘠的。从莫塔吉卡和奥格拉登流出的河流都被发现含有锡石,但数量比Cer山和Bukulja山少几个数量级。虽然在Motajica和Ograzden可能有少量的锡回收,但它们不太可能对区域锡贸易作出有意义的贡献。Motajica锡石的同位素特征(- 124Sn)与该地区的青铜时代晚期文物相比,锡的轻同位素高度富集,这一事实支持了这一观点。
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