Metallurgical Slags and Metalworking of the Orenburg Fore-Urals Late Bronze Age Settlements
The paper deals with the study of the Bronze Age metallurgy artifacts of 11 settlements in the Western Orenburg region: stone tubs, metallurgical slag, casting molds and metal items. Even settlements remote from the rich ore occurrences of copper sandstones demonstrate intensive metal production ac...
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| description | The paper deals with the study of the Bronze Age metallurgy artifacts of 11 settlements in the Western Orenburg region: stone tubs, metallurgical slag, casting molds and metal items. Even settlements remote from the rich ore occurrences of copper sandstones demonstrate intensive metal production activity. According to the XRF and optical microscopy, two mineralogical and geochemical associations were distinguished among 163 fragments of metallurgical slag: Ca-Ba-Sr-Zr is typical of glassy and pyroxene slags of the Srubnaya culture (XVIII–XV centuries BC); Fe-Cr-Ni-As is characteristic of olivine slags, presumably dating back to the end of the III – beginning of the II millennium BC. The typological diversity of metal items also indicates a wide chronological interval of the metal complex of the Western Orenburg region.
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| spelling | doaj-art-26a1f2da7332404eb4c974475dbdc31b2025-08-20T03:13:22ZengState institution «Tatarstan Аcademy of Sciences»Археология евразийских степей2587-61122618-94882025-06-01318119510.24852/2587-6112.2025.3.181.195Metallurgical Slags and Metalworking of the Orenburg Fore-Urals Late Bronze Age SettlementsMaksim N. Ankushev0Ildar A. Fayzullin1South Ural Federal Scientific Center of Mineralogy and Geoecology of the Ural Branch of the Russian Academy of SciencesOrenburg State Pedagogical UniversityThe paper deals with the study of the Bronze Age metallurgy artifacts of 11 settlements in the Western Orenburg region: stone tubs, metallurgical slag, casting molds and metal items. Even settlements remote from the rich ore occurrences of copper sandstones demonstrate intensive metal production activity. According to the XRF and optical microscopy, two mineralogical and geochemical associations were distinguished among 163 fragments of metallurgical slag: Ca-Ba-Sr-Zr is typical of glassy and pyroxene slags of the Srubnaya culture (XVIII–XV centuries BC); Fe-Cr-Ni-As is characteristic of olivine slags, presumably dating back to the end of the III – beginning of the II millennium BC. The typological diversity of metal items also indicates a wide chronological interval of the metal complex of the Western Orenburg region. https://www.evrazstep.ru/index.php/aes/article/view/1610archaeologybronze ageancient metallurgywestern orenburg regionsrubnaya culturemetallurgical slagcasting molds |
| spellingShingle | Maksim N. Ankushev Ildar A. Fayzullin Metallurgical Slags and Metalworking of the Orenburg Fore-Urals Late Bronze Age Settlements Археология евразийских степей archaeology bronze age ancient metallurgy western orenburg region srubnaya culture metallurgical slag casting molds |
| title | Metallurgical Slags and Metalworking of the Orenburg Fore-Urals Late Bronze Age Settlements |
| title_full | Metallurgical Slags and Metalworking of the Orenburg Fore-Urals Late Bronze Age Settlements |
| title_fullStr | Metallurgical Slags and Metalworking of the Orenburg Fore-Urals Late Bronze Age Settlements |
| title_full_unstemmed | Metallurgical Slags and Metalworking of the Orenburg Fore-Urals Late Bronze Age Settlements |
| title_short | Metallurgical Slags and Metalworking of the Orenburg Fore-Urals Late Bronze Age Settlements |
| title_sort | metallurgical slags and metalworking of the orenburg fore urals late bronze age settlements |
| topic | archaeology bronze age ancient metallurgy western orenburg region srubnaya culture metallurgical slag casting molds |
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