Andreas Hauptmann
Biographic Data
| ID | 631552 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Andreas Hauptmann |
| GIVEN NAMES | Andreas |
| FAMILY NAME | Hauptmann |
| SIGNATURE | HAUPTMANN A |
| AFFILIATIONS | Deutsches Bergbau-Museum Bochum |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-1126-9390 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 35 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 259 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 34 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1980 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 10 |
Migration and Knowledge Diffusion
During the early 1990s, Germany offered temporary protection to 700,000 Yugoslavian refugees fleeing war. By 2000, many had been repatriated. We exploit this natural experiment to investigate the role of returning migrants in boosting export performance upon their return. Using confidential German administrative data, we find that industries with 10% more returning refugees exhibit larger exports between the pre- and postwar periods by 1% to 1.6%…
The smelting of copper in the third millennium cal BC Trentino, north-eastern Italy
This paper presents observations and analyses on seven slag pieces from two third-millennium cal BC (Late Copper Age/Early Bronze Age) rock shelters in the Trentino, north-eastern Italy: La Vela di Valbusa and the Riparo di Monte Terlago. We review previous work on contemporary slags from the region and show that the smelting did not follow the well-known 'Timna', 'Eibner' or so-called 'Chalcolithic' copper smelting processes. We show that ethnog…
Reißscheiben from shipwrecks as an indicator for copper qualities produced in the major middle and North European mining districts during the late medieval and early modern period 15th–17th Century AD
Using spinel chemistry to characterise archaeological steatite found in the wall paintings of Tell el-Dabca, Egypt
Migration and Post-Conflict Reconstruction
Types of Gold, Types of Silver
The many gold and silver artifacts from the Early Dynastic Royal Tombs of Ur in Mesopotamia are among the greatest metal finds of Ancient Mesopotamia in the third millennium BC. Within the framework of a research project, 32 of these artifacts were analyzed for their composition using a portable X-ray fluorescence spectrometer and a scanning electron microscope. Predominantly gold-silver alloys rather than pure gold were identified, containing up…
Let Their Knowledge Flow
During the early 1990s Germany received over half a million Yugoslavian refugees fleeing war. By 2000, many of these refugees, who were under temporary protection, had been repatriated. We exploit this historical episode to provide causal evidence on the role that migrants play explaining export performance in global markets after returning to their home country. We find that the elasticity of exports to return migration is between 0.1 to 0.24 in…
The potential of stable Cu isotopes for the identification of Bronze Age ore mineral sources from Cyprus and Faynan
Archaeometallurgical Investigations in Nakhchivan, Azerbaijan
The Late Chalcolithic (4400–3950 b.c.) occupation levels from Ovçular Tepesi have yielded a significant assemblage of copper objects and remains of copper production. Together with ore finds, two fragments of nozzle, crucible remains, and a number of small metal artifacts, this assemblage includes the unexpected discovery of three copper axes in an infant burial jar. These axes are the earliest examples of large copper tools known to date in sout…
Tripod cauldrons produced at Olympia give evidence for trade with copper from Faynan (Jordan) to South West Greece, c. 950–750 BCE
The Shipwreck of Bom Jesus, AD 1533
In AD 1533, the Portuguese trade vessel Bom Jesus sunk off the coast of southern Namibia, near the modern town of Oranjemund. Coming from Lisbon on its way to western India, it contained a multifold load of naval equipment and commodities for trade and exchange. Amongst the excavated materials recovered from the presumed shipwreck of the Bom Jesus, of paramount importance are 1845 copper ingots, showing the trademark of the Fugger company from th…
Silver production at al‐Radrad
The zinc‐lead‐silver deposit of al‐Jabali, about 65 km north‐east of Sana'a in Yemen, has been identified as the location of the late antique/Islamic period silver mine al‐Radrad. Exploitation of the mine is known from the account of al‐Hamdani, an Arab geographer of the tenth century AD . The al‐Jabali area has been the focus of geological and archaeometallurgical surveys, and extensive metallurgical remains have been discovered. Samples of ore,…
Platinum group placer minerals in ancient gold artifacts – Geochemistry and osmium isotopes of inclusions in Early Bronze Age gold from Ur/Mesopotamia
On the making of copper oxhide ingots
On Early Bronze Age Copper Bar Ingots from the Southern Levant
We report on late Early Bronze Age (crescent-shaped) copper bar ingots from Khirbat Hamra Ifdan, Faynan, Jordan, from Har Yeruham in the central Negev, and from a stray find hoard from the Hebron Hills. All these ingots are composed of pure copper, with remarkably constant phase content and texture as well as concentrations of trace elements and lead isotope abundance ratios. We suggest the origin of these ingots to be the copper district of Fayn…
Bronze Age Kfar Monash. Palestine – A Chemical and Lead Isotope Study into the Provenance of its Copper
Les objets de cuivre du trésor de Kfar Monash (EB I/ II de Palestine) sont faits de deux types de métaux. Des herminettes, une pointe de lance et un long couteau recourbé sont composés d’un cuivre arsénique, riche en nickel, contenant entre 0,4 et 3,88 % d’arsenic et un rapport moyen de As/ Ni de 1.4. Les autres outils et armes, mais aussi les fi nes et énigmatiques feuilles métalliques, (épaisses d’environ 0,5 mm) sont en cuivre pur. La même par…
Lead isotope and chemical signature of copper from Oman and its occurrence in Mesopotamia and sites on the Arabian Gulf coast
Lead isotope data, together with an evaluation of previously published results for the chemical composition of Omani ores and copper‐base artefacts are used to define a material signature of Omani copper. Absent from our group of Bronze Age metal (Umm an Nar and Wadi Suq periods) are the signature of ores from Masirah Island and also from the vast deposits in north Oman inland from Suhar. Contemporaneous copper from Bahrain and from Tell Abraq on…
Bronze Age gold in Southern Georgia
This study represents a joint pilot project between archaeological and natural sciences, aimed at exploring the technology and provenance of gold artefacts, exemplified for the case of Georgia. It is focussed on the prehistoric gold mine of Sakdrisi. The study included the investigation of both Bronze Age gold artefacts and native gold by chemical and lead isotope analyses using ICP-mass spectrometry. The analyses of the artefacts indicate that t…
Tracing Roman lead sources using lead isotope analyses in conjunction with archaeological and epigraphic evidence-a case study from Augustan/Tiberian Germania
In antiquity, lead played an important role both for the military and general public. Building construction, in particular, consumed large amounts of this metal. Nevertheless, the supply sources for lead during the Roman Imperial period have not been satisfactorily accounted for. The following paper aims to clarify the provenance of lead artefacts from Roman military fortresses and camps located to the east of the river Rhine in Germany as well a…
Alten Berg- und Hüttenleuten auf die Finger geschaut
The Archaeometallurgy of Copper
Coins from Faynan, Jordan
During extensive field studies of ancient copper production at Faynan in 1963 and between 1984 and 1997, 1395 coins were collected, of which 1013 have been identified in detail. Of these, 103 coins had been minted between about 300 BC and AD 312. They include 7 Ptolemaic, 6 Jewish, 40 Nabataean, 17 Roman provincial and civic and 9 Roman imperial coins. 609 coins have been dated between 312 and the severe earthquake of AD 363. Field evidence sugge…
Reassessing the chronology of Biblical Edom
An international team of researchers show how high-precision radiocarbon dating is liberating us from chronological assumptions based on Biblical research. Surface and topographic mapping at the large copper-working site of Khirbat en-Nahas was followed by stratigraphic excavations at an ancient fortress and two metal processing facilities located on the site surface. The results were spectacular. Occupation begins here in the eleventh century BC…
On the Structure and Composition of Copper and Tin Ingots Excavated from the Shipwreck of Uluburun
We report on the structural and chemical composition of copper and tin ingots from the Late Bronze Age shipwreck of Kas/Uluburun, found at the southern coast of Anatolia. The ship carried ten tons of copper and one ton of tin. The cargo thus represents the "world market" bulk metal in the Mediterranean. It is the aim of this paper to evaluate the quality of metal traded during this period and to discuss the making of these ingots. Cores drilled f…
Early Bronze Age metallurgy
Recent excavations in southern Jordan have revealed the largest Early Bronze Age (c. 3600-2000 BC) metal manufactory in the ancient Near East. On-site Geographic Information Systems (GIS) analyses of the finds provide new evidence concerning the scale and organization of metal production at a time when the first cities emerged in this part of the Near East. Materials and lead isotope analyses of the metallurgical finds provide important data for …
Recent Discoveries Concerning Chalcolithic Metallurgy at Shiqmim, Israel
Chemical Composition and Lead Isotopy of Metal Objects from the "Royal" Tomb and Other Related Finds at Arslantepe, Eastern Anatolia
Cet article traite d'objets en métal, de scories et de minerais provenant du centre urbain ď Arslantepe. La majorité des objets analysés ont été trouvés dans la tombe « royale » niveau VI В1 (début du Bronze ancien I), quelques autres appartiennent au trésor palatial du temple niveau VI A (Uruk récent). Les scories et les minerais proviennent de différents loci et niveaux. Les métaux peuvent être classés en cuivre (arsénieux), cuivre arsénieux à …
New Symbols of a New Power in a "Royal" Tomb from 3 000 BC Arslantepe, Malatya (Turkey)
The paper presents the extraordinary discovery at Arslantepe, on the borderline of the large period VI A public area, of an isolated burial from the very beginning of the 3rd millennium (period VI В) with imposing size and construction features , complex ritual, and very rich funerary gifts, which seems to be ascribable to a high-status person. The high rank of the man buried in this tomb was also stressed by the presence of four adolescents prob…
Tracing Roman lead sources using lead isotope analyses in conjunction with archaeological and epigraphic evidence-a case study from Augustan/Tiberian Germania
In antiquity, lead played an important role both for the military and general public. Building construction, in particular, consumed large amounts of this metal. Nevertheless, the supply sources for lead during the Roman Imperial period have not been satisfactorily accounted for. The following paper aims to clarify the provenance of lead artefacts from Roman military fortresses and camps located to the east of the river Rhine in Germany as well a…
Lead isotope and chemical signature of copper from Oman and its occurrence in Mesopotamia and sites on the Arabian Gulf coast
Lead isotope data, together with an evaluation of previously published results for the chemical composition of Omani ores and copper‐base artefacts are used to define a material signature of Omani copper. Absent from our group of Bronze Age metal (Umm an Nar and Wadi Suq periods) are the signature of ores from Masirah Island and also from the vast deposits in north Oman inland from Suhar. Contemporaneous copper from Bahrain and from Tell Abraq on…
Iron Age Leaded Tin Bronzes from Khirbet Edh-Dharih, Jordan
Reassessing the chronology of Biblical Edom
An international team of researchers show how high-precision radiocarbon dating is liberating us from chronological assumptions based on Biblical research. Surface and topographic mapping at the large copper-working site of Khirbat en-Nahas was followed by stratigraphic excavations at an ancient fortress and two metal processing facilities located on the site surface. The results were spectacular. Occupation begins here in the eleventh century BC…
Early Bronze Age metallurgy
Recent excavations in southern Jordan have revealed the largest Early Bronze Age (c. 3600-2000 BC) metal manufactory in the ancient Near East. On-site Geographic Information Systems (GIS) analyses of the finds provide new evidence concerning the scale and organization of metal production at a time when the first cities emerged in this part of the Near East. Materials and lead isotope analyses of the metallurgical finds provide important data for …
Lime plaster, cement and the first puzzolanic reaction
During the Pre-Pottery Neolithic, lime plaster was produced for architectural and artistic purposes all over the Middle East. The material is one of the earliest evidences of pyrotechnology. A sample of plastered floor from Asikh Höyük (Anatolia) was analysed for its chemical and mineralogical composition. It consists of lime mixed with ash-particles from (volcanic) tuffs. Puzzolanic reactions are shown between the two materials, which led to the…
The smelting of copper in the third millennium cal BC Trentino, north-eastern Italy
This paper presents observations and analyses on seven slag pieces from two third-millennium cal BC (Late Copper Age/Early Bronze Age) rock shelters in the Trentino, north-eastern Italy: La Vela di Valbusa and the Riparo di Monte Terlago. We review previous work on contemporary slags from the region and show that the smelting did not follow the well-known 'Timna', 'Eibner' or so-called 'Chalcolithic' copper smelting processes. We show that ethnog…
The potential of stable Cu isotopes for the identification of Bronze Age ore mineral sources from Cyprus and Faynan
The Shipwreck of Bom Jesus, AD 1533
In AD 1533, the Portuguese trade vessel Bom Jesus sunk off the coast of southern Namibia, near the modern town of Oranjemund. Coming from Lisbon on its way to western India, it contained a multifold load of naval equipment and commodities for trade and exchange. Amongst the excavated materials recovered from the presumed shipwreck of the Bom Jesus, of paramount importance are 1845 copper ingots, showing the trademark of the Fugger company from th…
Platinum group placer minerals in ancient gold artifacts – Geochemistry and osmium isotopes of inclusions in Early Bronze Age gold from Ur/Mesopotamia
Bronze Age gold in Southern Georgia
This study represents a joint pilot project between archaeological and natural sciences, aimed at exploring the technology and provenance of gold artefacts, exemplified for the case of Georgia. It is focussed on the prehistoric gold mine of Sakdrisi. The study included the investigation of both Bronze Age gold artefacts and native gold by chemical and lead isotope analyses using ICP-mass spectrometry. The analyses of the artefacts indicate that t…
On the making of copper oxhide ingots
Bronze Age Kfar Monash. Palestine – A Chemical and Lead Isotope Study into the Provenance of its Copper
Les objets de cuivre du trésor de Kfar Monash (EB I/ II de Palestine) sont faits de deux types de métaux. Des herminettes, une pointe de lance et un long couteau recourbé sont composés d’un cuivre arsénique, riche en nickel, contenant entre 0,4 et 3,88 % d’arsenic et un rapport moyen de As/ Ni de 1.4. Les autres outils et armes, mais aussi les fi nes et énigmatiques feuilles métalliques, (épaisses d’environ 0,5 mm) sont en cuivre pur. La même par…
The roots of glazing techniques
This paper reports on finds of greenish, partially bluish and red glazed furnace fragments from 3rd millennium ВС copper smelting sites at Feinan and at Timna, Wadi Arabah which, due to their geographic location, could have been of significance for the production of glazes in Egypt (" Egyptian faience" '). The weathered glazes consist of Ca-Al- siliceous glass originally high in alkalis, the latter extracted by leaching over the millennia. The pr…
Archaeometallurgical Fieldwork and the Use of a Portable X‐ray Spectrometer
Using spinel chemistry to characterise archaeological steatite found in the wall paintings of Tell el-Dabca, Egypt
Archaeometallurgical Investigations in Nakhchivan, Azerbaijan
The Late Chalcolithic (4400–3950 b.c.) occupation levels from Ovçular Tepesi have yielded a significant assemblage of copper objects and remains of copper production. Together with ore finds, two fragments of nozzle, crucible remains, and a number of small metal artifacts, this assemblage includes the unexpected discovery of three copper axes in an infant burial jar. These axes are the earliest examples of large copper tools known to date in sout…
Silver production at al‐Radrad
The zinc‐lead‐silver deposit of al‐Jabali, about 65 km north‐east of Sana'a in Yemen, has been identified as the location of the late antique/Islamic period silver mine al‐Radrad. Exploitation of the mine is known from the account of al‐Hamdani, an Arab geographer of the tenth century AD . The al‐Jabali area has been the focus of geological and archaeometallurgical surveys, and extensive metallurgical remains have been discovered. Samples of ore,…
Production, échange et utilisation des métaux
Présentées par leurs auteurs, les études les plus récentes portant sur les sites d'extraction du minerai, de production métallique ou d'élaboration d'objets en métal ainsi que sur de nombreux outils, armes, lingots... provenant d'Egypte, Chypre, Palestine, Syrie, Iraq, Anatolie, Iran, mettent en évidence un renouvellement des questions et des résultats sur la métallurgie moyen-orientale. Il apparaît ainsi que la production, l'échange et l'utilisa…
Archaeometallurgical Fieldwork and the Use of a Portable X‐ray Spectrometer
The Composition of Gold from the Ancient Mining District of Verespatak/Roşia MontanĂ, Romania
Copper Objects from Arad
We report lead isotope data and trace element contents for 21 copper artifacts from EB I/II layers at Arad and for 3 contemporaneous copper objects from the southern Sinai. All objects are made of pure, unalloyed copper; tin contents are invariably far below 1 percent, and arsenic in two cases reaches up to about 1 percent. We argue that even the latter is not due to intentional addition of arsenic to improve the qualities of the implements as su…
Iron Age Leaded Tin Bronzes from Khirbet Edh-Dharih, Jordan
Lime plaster, cement and the first puzzolanic reaction
During the Pre-Pottery Neolithic, lime plaster was produced for architectural and artistic purposes all over the Middle East. The material is one of the earliest evidences of pyrotechnology. A sample of plastered floor from Asikh Höyük (Anatolia) was analysed for its chemical and mineralogical composition. It consists of lime mixed with ash-particles from (volcanic) tuffs. Puzzolanic reactions are shown between the two materials, which led to the…
The roots of glazing techniques
This paper reports on finds of greenish, partially bluish and red glazed furnace fragments from 3rd millennium ВС copper smelting sites at Feinan and at Timna, Wadi Arabah which, due to their geographic location, could have been of significance for the production of glazes in Egypt (" Egyptian faience" '). The weathered glazes consist of Ca-Al- siliceous glass originally high in alkalis, the latter extracted by leaching over the millennia. The pr…
Recent Discoveries Concerning Chalcolithic Metallurgy at Shiqmim, Israel
New Symbols of a New Power in a "Royal" Tomb from 3 000 BC Arslantepe, Malatya (Turkey)
The paper presents the extraordinary discovery at Arslantepe, on the borderline of the large period VI A public area, of an isolated burial from the very beginning of the 3rd millennium (period VI В) with imposing size and construction features , complex ritual, and very rich funerary gifts, which seems to be ascribable to a high-status person. The high rank of the man buried in this tomb was also stressed by the presence of four adolescents prob…
On the Structure and Composition of Copper and Tin Ingots Excavated from the Shipwreck of Uluburun
We report on the structural and chemical composition of copper and tin ingots from the Late Bronze Age shipwreck of Kas/Uluburun, found at the southern coast of Anatolia. The ship carried ten tons of copper and one ton of tin. The cargo thus represents the "world market" bulk metal in the Mediterranean. It is the aim of this paper to evaluate the quality of metal traded during this period and to discuss the making of these ingots. Cores drilled f…
Early Bronze Age metallurgy
Recent excavations in southern Jordan have revealed the largest Early Bronze Age (c. 3600-2000 BC) metal manufactory in the ancient Near East. On-site Geographic Information Systems (GIS) analyses of the finds provide new evidence concerning the scale and organization of metal production at a time when the first cities emerged in this part of the Near East. Materials and lead isotope analyses of the metallurgical finds provide important data for …
Chemical Composition and Lead Isotopy of Metal Objects from the "Royal" Tomb and Other Related Finds at Arslantepe, Eastern Anatolia
Cet article traite d'objets en métal, de scories et de minerais provenant du centre urbain ď Arslantepe. La majorité des objets analysés ont été trouvés dans la tombe « royale » niveau VI В1 (début du Bronze ancien I), quelques autres appartiennent au trésor palatial du temple niveau VI A (Uruk récent). Les scories et les minerais proviennent de différents loci et niveaux. Les métaux peuvent être classés en cuivre (arsénieux), cuivre arsénieux à …
Reassessing the chronology of Biblical Edom
An international team of researchers show how high-precision radiocarbon dating is liberating us from chronological assumptions based on Biblical research. Surface and topographic mapping at the large copper-working site of Khirbat en-Nahas was followed by stratigraphic excavations at an ancient fortress and two metal processing facilities located on the site surface. The results were spectacular. Occupation begins here in the eleventh century BC…
Coins from Faynan, Jordan
During extensive field studies of ancient copper production at Faynan in 1963 and between 1984 and 1997, 1395 coins were collected, of which 1013 have been identified in detail. Of these, 103 coins had been minted between about 300 BC and AD 312. They include 7 Ptolemaic, 6 Jewish, 40 Nabataean, 17 Roman provincial and civic and 9 Roman imperial coins. 609 coins have been dated between 312 and the severe earthquake of AD 363. Field evidence sugge…
The Archaeometallurgy of Copper
Alten Berg- und Hüttenleuten auf die Finger geschaut
Bronze Age gold in Southern Georgia
This study represents a joint pilot project between archaeological and natural sciences, aimed at exploring the technology and provenance of gold artefacts, exemplified for the case of Georgia. It is focussed on the prehistoric gold mine of Sakdrisi. The study included the investigation of both Bronze Age gold artefacts and native gold by chemical and lead isotope analyses using ICP-mass spectrometry. The analyses of the artefacts indicate that t…
Tracing Roman lead sources using lead isotope analyses in conjunction with archaeological and epigraphic evidence-a case study from Augustan/Tiberian Germania
In antiquity, lead played an important role both for the military and general public. Building construction, in particular, consumed large amounts of this metal. Nevertheless, the supply sources for lead during the Roman Imperial period have not been satisfactorily accounted for. The following paper aims to clarify the provenance of lead artefacts from Roman military fortresses and camps located to the east of the river Rhine in Germany as well a…
Lead isotope and chemical signature of copper from Oman and its occurrence in Mesopotamia and sites on the Arabian Gulf coast
Lead isotope data, together with an evaluation of previously published results for the chemical composition of Omani ores and copper‐base artefacts are used to define a material signature of Omani copper. Absent from our group of Bronze Age metal (Umm an Nar and Wadi Suq periods) are the signature of ores from Masirah Island and also from the vast deposits in north Oman inland from Suhar. Contemporaneous copper from Bahrain and from Tell Abraq on…
Bronze Age Kfar Monash. Palestine – A Chemical and Lead Isotope Study into the Provenance of its Copper
Les objets de cuivre du trésor de Kfar Monash (EB I/ II de Palestine) sont faits de deux types de métaux. Des herminettes, une pointe de lance et un long couteau recourbé sont composés d’un cuivre arsénique, riche en nickel, contenant entre 0,4 et 3,88 % d’arsenic et un rapport moyen de As/ Ni de 1.4. Les autres outils et armes, mais aussi les fi nes et énigmatiques feuilles métalliques, (épaisses d’environ 0,5 mm) sont en cuivre pur. La même par…
On Early Bronze Age Copper Bar Ingots from the Southern Levant
We report on late Early Bronze Age (crescent-shaped) copper bar ingots from Khirbat Hamra Ifdan, Faynan, Jordan, from Har Yeruham in the central Negev, and from a stray find hoard from the Hebron Hills. All these ingots are composed of pure copper, with remarkably constant phase content and texture as well as concentrations of trace elements and lead isotope abundance ratios. We suggest the origin of these ingots to be the copper district of Fayn…
Tripod cauldrons produced at Olympia give evidence for trade with copper from Faynan (Jordan) to South West Greece, c. 950–750 BCE
The Shipwreck of Bom Jesus, AD 1533
In AD 1533, the Portuguese trade vessel Bom Jesus sunk off the coast of southern Namibia, near the modern town of Oranjemund. Coming from Lisbon on its way to western India, it contained a multifold load of naval equipment and commodities for trade and exchange. Amongst the excavated materials recovered from the presumed shipwreck of the Bom Jesus, of paramount importance are 1845 copper ingots, showing the trademark of the Fugger company from th…
Silver production at al‐Radrad
The zinc‐lead‐silver deposit of al‐Jabali, about 65 km north‐east of Sana'a in Yemen, has been identified as the location of the late antique/Islamic period silver mine al‐Radrad. Exploitation of the mine is known from the account of al‐Hamdani, an Arab geographer of the tenth century AD . The al‐Jabali area has been the focus of geological and archaeometallurgical surveys, and extensive metallurgical remains have been discovered. Samples of ore,…
Platinum group placer minerals in ancient gold artifacts – Geochemistry and osmium isotopes of inclusions in Early Bronze Age gold from Ur/Mesopotamia
Archaeology (22 works) · Archaeology and ancient environmental studies (22 works) · Geography (21 works) · Geology (20 works) · Metallurgy (20 works) · Materials Science (18 works) · Metallurgy and Cultural Artifacts (17 works) · Copper (16 works) · Ancient history (12 works) · Geochemistry (12 works)