XRF ANALYSES PERFORMED ON THE ENEOLITHIC COPPER OBJECTS FROM THE BUCHAREST MUNICIPALITY MUSEUM’S ARCHAEOLOGICAL COLLECTION
XRF ANALYSES PERFORMED ON THE ENEOLITHIC COPPER OBJECTS FROM THE BUCHAREST MUNICIPALITY MUSEUM’S ARCHAEOLOGICAL COLLECTION

Summary/Abstract: This study represents a technological approach on the copper artifacts from the South-eastern Romanian plain, during the Eneolithic period. All of the copper finds are part of the Archaeological collection of the Bucharest Municipality Museum and are related to important tell settlements: Vidra, Chitila- Fermă, Sărulesti. Firstly, the artifacts were submitted to morphological analyses, resulting in a reduced typological variation, as the majority of the objects were tools. Two new sets of XRF analyses performed on the Eneolithic objects curated at the Bucharest Municipality Museum archaeological collection are the main focus of the research, introducing new data regarding the emergence of metallurgy during the Eneolithic in the Gumelniţa area.

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