Elemental Composition of Tagar Copper-Bronze Sickle-Shaped Tools
The article features the elemental composition of copper and bronze sickle-shaped tools of the Tagar culture. The structure and composition of metal sickles have been the focus of chemical and spectral quantitative analyses since the 1950s. The paper introduces new data obtained by X-ray fluorescenc...
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ftdoajarticles:oai:doaj.org/article:af19f0ef9a224239894ad57c6346665a 2023-07-30T04:07:11+02:00 Elemental Composition of Tagar Copper-Bronze Sickle-Shaped Tools A. S. Savel’eva 2022-11-01T00:00:00Z https://doi.org/10.21603/2078-8975-2022-24-5-558-566 https://doaj.org/article/af19f0ef9a224239894ad57c6346665a EN RU eng rus Kemerovo State University https://vestnik.kemsu.ru/jour/article/view/5276 https://doaj.org/toc/2078-8975 https://doaj.org/toc/2078-8983 2078-8975 2078-8983 doi:10.21603/2078-8975-2022-24-5-558-566 https://doaj.org/article/af19f0ef9a224239894ad57c6346665a Вестник Кемеровского государственного университета, Vol 24, Iss 5, Pp 558-566 (2022) tagar culture mariinsky-achinsk forest-steppe minusinsk basins agriculture copper-bronze alloys elemental composition sickles History of Russia. Soviet Union. Former Soviet Republics DK1-4735 Psychology BF1-990 article 2022 ftdoajarticles https://doi.org/10.21603/2078-8975-2022-24-5-558-566 2023-07-16T00:35:33Z The article features the elemental composition of copper and bronze sickle-shaped tools of the Tagar culture. The structure and composition of metal sickles have been the focus of chemical and spectral quantitative analyses since the 1950s. The paper introduces new data obtained by X-ray fluorescence, energy dispersive, and atomic emission spectral methods. The chemical and chemical-metallurgical features of the alloys add to the external descriptions of the Tagar metal tools. The research objective was to identify the features of Tagar copper-bronze sickles based on the chemical-metallurgical profile of the alloys. The authors also analyzed the effect of the alloy formulations on the morphological and metric characteristics of the tools, compared the bronze formulations with surface patterns, and established the copper ore sources. The study revealed no relationships between the bronze formulations and the morphological and metric indicators. An attempt to search for correlations showed two types of sickle-shaped tools. By measuring the length of the base and the height of the blade, the authors restored the actual sickles and reaping knives. The second type tools came from the Mariinsk-Achinsk foreststeppe. An analysis of the geochemical impurities in high-concentration copper indicated that the ore used in the Tagar tools was similar to that mined in the Glafirinsk and Kharadzhul-Butrakhty mines in the eastern foothills of the Kuznetsk Alatau. The sickle-shaped tools might also have been used to harvest fodder for livestock. Article in Journal/Newspaper Tagar culture Directory of Open Access Journals: DOAJ Articles Sickle ENVELOPE(-66.783,-66.783,-68.867,-68.867) Bulletin of Kemerovo State University 24 5 558 566 |
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The article features the elemental composition of copper and bronze sickle-shaped tools of the Tagar culture. The structure and composition of metal sickles have been the focus of chemical and spectral quantitative analyses since the 1950s. The paper introduces new data obtained by X-ray fluorescence, energy dispersive, and atomic emission spectral methods. The chemical and chemical-metallurgical features of the alloys add to the external descriptions of the Tagar metal tools. The research objective was to identify the features of Tagar copper-bronze sickles based on the chemical-metallurgical profile of the alloys. The authors also analyzed the effect of the alloy formulations on the morphological and metric characteristics of the tools, compared the bronze formulations with surface patterns, and established the copper ore sources. The study revealed no relationships between the bronze formulations and the morphological and metric indicators. An attempt to search for correlations showed two types of sickle-shaped tools. By measuring the length of the base and the height of the blade, the authors restored the actual sickles and reaping knives. The second type tools came from the Mariinsk-Achinsk foreststeppe. An analysis of the geochemical impurities in high-concentration copper indicated that the ore used in the Tagar tools was similar to that mined in the Glafirinsk and Kharadzhul-Butrakhty mines in the eastern foothills of the Kuznetsk Alatau. The sickle-shaped tools might also have been used to harvest fodder for livestock. |
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