The oldest metallurgy in western Europe

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ID7659263
AutoresArturo Ruiz-Taboada, Arturo Ruíz Taboada (0000-0002-7957-2954, University of Castilla-La Mancha), I Montero-Ruiz (0000-0003-0897-1031, Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas)
Año1999
Volumen73
Número282
Páginas897-903
Fecha de publicación1999-12-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaAntiquity (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0003-598X • E-ISSN: 1745-1744
EditorialCambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1017/s0003598x00065650
OpenAlexW1552571599
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas26
Referencias citadas15

Recent excavations at the Neolithic site of Cerro Virtud (Almería, southeast Spain) have produced new information about the development of metallurgy that may change ongoing research not only in the Iberian Peninsula but also in the rest of western Europe. The discovery of metallurgy in this region in the first half of the 5th millennium BC poses serious challenges to the interpretation of how this industry developed and spread, given that the nearest European region with similar evidence is the Balkans. This study presents the archaeological context of the discovery and the various analytical techniques (XRF, SEM, 14 C) that have been applied to it

Ancient history · Archaeology · Context (archaeology) · European union · Excavation · Geography · Peninsula · Western europe · Archaeology and ancient environmental studies · Forensic Anthropology and Bioarchaeology Studies · History · Maritime and Coastal Archaeology