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30 août 2023
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Iberian peninsula Tin Archaeology Mining archaeology Archaeometallurgy Geology Archaeometry ProtohistorySujets proches
Engineering, Mining Mines and mining Mining Deposits, Mineral Mineral deposits Mines and mining Mineral resources Mining Mining industry and finance Metal industries Extractive industries Extractive industry Mines and mining Mining industry MiningCiter ce document
Emmanuelle Meunier et al., « The IberianTin Project: a pluridisciplinary approach to ancient tin production in Western Iberia », HAL-SHS : archéologie, ID : 10670/1.ljf6t6
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The question of ancient tin production is an old topic, but has recently gained a new impetus by being addressed by several research projects in Europe. The Iberian Tin project (PTDC/HAR-ARQ/32290/2017; PI: Elin Figueiredo)developed a multidisciplinary approach joining archaeological, geological and metallurgical domains aiming to contribute to a comprehensive vision of tin mining and tin-bronze production from Bronze Age to Roman period in Western Iberia. A combination of archaeological and geological surveys, a review of historical documentation, LiDAR and aerial imagery processing, analyses of metals and slags, and excavations were performed.In the present talk a point of situation will be made based on the knowledge of ancient tin exploitation in Western Iberia before and after the Project, aided by the presentation of some case-studies developed in the last years. Emphasis will be made on the different inputs that each discipline was able to provide to the study, such as the kind of geological resources used for cassiterite exploration, the mining impacts in the landscape, ore smelting and metallurgical technologies to produce tin or bronze, and the (frequently overlapping) chronologies of these activities in some places.