Antimony as a raw material in ancient metal and glass making: provenancing Georgian LBA metallic Sb by isotope analysis

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dc.contributor.authorDillis, Sarah
dc.contributor.authorvan Ham-Meert, Alicia
dc.contributor.authorLeeming, Peter
dc.contributor.authorShortland, Andrew J.
dc.contributor.authorGobejishvili, Gela
dc.contributor.authorAbramishvili, Mikheil
dc.contributor.authorDegryse, Patrick
dc.date.accessioned2019-11-25T15:33:05Z
dc.date.available2019-11-25T15:33:05Z
dc.date.issued2019-11-13
dc.description.abstractSb 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 not satisfactorily answered. This study evaluates the suitability of Sb isotope analysis for provenance determination purposes, as experiments under lab conditions have revealed fractionation occurring during redox processes in oxidising stibnites and in making opacified glasses. The results of this paper help to evaluate the possible influence of the pyrotechnological processes on the antimony isotope composition of glass artefacts. This paper focuses on the Caucasus as case study by applying mineralogical, geochemical and isotopic analysis to Georgian ores (mainly from the Racha-Lechkumi district) and Late Bronze Age (LBA; 15th–10th century BCE) metallic Sb objects found at the sites of Brili and Chalpiragorebi.en_UK
dc.identifier.citationDillis S, Van Ham-Meert A, Leeming P, et al., (2019) Antimony as a raw material in ancient metal and glass making: provenancing Georgian LBA metallic Sb by isotope analysis. Science and Technology of Archaeological Research, Volume 5, Issue 2, 2019, pp. 98-112en_UK
dc.identifier.issn2054-8923
dc.identifier.urihttps://doi.org/10.1080/20548923.2019.1681138
dc.identifier.urihttp://dspace.lib.cranfield.ac.uk/handle/1826/14764
dc.language.isoenen_UK
dc.publisherTaylor & Francisen_UK
dc.rightsAttribution 4.0 International*
dc.rights.urihttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/*
dc.subjectAntimonyen_UK
dc.subjectprovenance studiesen_UK
dc.subjectGlassen_UK
dc.subjectLate Bronze Ageen_UK
dc.subjectCaucasusen_UK
dc.subjectMetalsen_UK
dc.titleAntimony as a raw material in ancient metal and glass making: provenancing Georgian LBA metallic Sb by isotope analysisen_UK
dc.typeArticleen_UK

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