Brass before bronze? Early copper-alloy metallurgy in China

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	Brass before bronze? Early copper-alloy metallurgy in China
	Fan, Xiaopan 1,2; Harbottle, Garman 3; Gao, Qiang 4; Zhou, Weirong 5; Gong, Qiming 6; Wang, Hua 7; Yu, Xiaohan 7; Wang, Changsui 1,2
	2012
发表期刊	JOURNAL OF ANALYTICAL ATOMIC SPECTROMETRY
卷号	27 期号:5 页码:821-826
文章类型	Article
摘要	An artifact of brass apparently predating the "Bronze Age" was unearthed at Jiangzhai site (China, Shaanxi Province, 4700-4000 BC). So that we might infer the probable metallurgical process for the production of this early brass, we performed simulation experiments that, in turn, involved two widely differing methodologies. For convenience we refer to their metallurgical routes as "melting" on the one hand, and "solid-state reduction" on the other. Clearly, either of these processes could have supplied the starting material for the subsequent development of metal production leading to a casting technology, which is a highly significant step in the technical progress of metallurgy, whether of copper, brass, bronze or arsenical bronze. The distribution of zinc and lead in the brass artifact of the fifth millennium BC and several brass specimens produced by simulation experiments were analyzed by mu-X-ray fluorescence at the Shanghai Synchrotron Radiation Facility (SSRF). The results suggest that the archaeological brass artifact utilized alloy produced by a solid-state reduction process. This result is consistent with an indigenous origin in China.
WOS标题词	Science & Technology ; Physical Sciences ; Technology
收录类别	SCI
语种	英语
WOS研究方向	Chemistry ; Spectroscopy
WOS类目	Chemistry, Analytical ; Spectroscopy
WOS记录号	WOS:000302755200010
引用统计
文献类型	期刊论文
条目标识符	http://119.78.100.205/handle/311034/7341
专题	中科院古脊椎所（2000年以后）
作者单位	1.Chinese Acad Sci, Lab Human Evolut, Inst Vertebrate Paleontol & Paleoanthropol, Beijing, Peoples R China 2.Chinese Acad Sci, Grad Univ, Beijing, Peoples R China 3.SUNY Stony Brook, Dept Geosci, Stony Brook, NY 11794 USA 4.Banpo Museum, Xian, Peoples R China 5.China Numismat Museum, Beijing, Peoples R China 6.Shaanxi Prov Inst Archaeol, Xian, Peoples R China 7.Shanghai Synchrotron Radiat Facil, Shanghai, Peoples R China
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Fan, Xiaopan,Harbottle, Garman,Gao, Qiang,et al. Brass before bronze? Early copper-alloy metallurgy in China[J]. JOURNAL OF ANALYTICAL ATOMIC SPECTROMETRY,2012,27(5):821-826.
APA	Fan, Xiaopan.,Harbottle, Garman.,Gao, Qiang.,Zhou, Weirong.,Gong, Qiming.,...&Wang, Changsui.(2012).Brass before bronze? Early copper-alloy metallurgy in China.JOURNAL OF ANALYTICAL ATOMIC SPECTROMETRY,27(5),821-826.
MLA	Fan, Xiaopan,et al."Brass before bronze? Early copper-alloy metallurgy in China".JOURNAL OF ANALYTICAL ATOMIC SPECTROMETRY 27.5(2012):821-826.