New finds of copper metallurgy during the bronze age in the Timok region (north-east Serbia) Cover Image

Nova saznanja o metalurgiji bakra tokom bronzanog doba u Timočkoj regiji (severoistočna Srbija)
New finds of copper metallurgy during the bronze age in the Timok region (north-east Serbia)

Author(s): Aleksandar Kapuran
Subject(s): Archaeology, Cultural history, Economic history, Local History / Microhistory, Ancient World
Published by: Akademija Nauka i Umjetnosti Bosne i Hercegovine
Keywords: South-eastern Serbia; copper metallurgy; Bronze Age; Late Bronze Age; absolute date;

Summary/Abstract: Over the last 7 years a series of discoveries were made at Banjsko Polje near the city of Bor, the largest copper exploitation center in south-eastern Serbia, which prove that in the Bronze Age copper metallurgy intensified on this territory. Besides the remains of two metallurgical kilns, a large quantity of ceramics and slag was discovered from the same context. The types of slag indicate a complex process of extracting copper from sulfide ore of the Timok eruptive basin, where the first absolute date established for the Bronze Age on this territory contributed to a change in the archeological framework and genesis of prehistoric culture in the Timok Region.

  • Issue Year: 2019
  • Issue No: 48
  • Page Range: 73-81
  • Page Count: 9
  • Language: Serbian