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CHEMICAL ANALYSIS OF COPPER ALLOY TRADE METAL FROM A POST‐CONTACT HURON SITE IN ONTARIO, CANADA
Author(s) -
HANCOCK R. G. V.,
PAVLISH L. A.,
FOX W. A.,
LATTA M. A.
Publication year - 1995
Publication title -
archaeometry
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.716
H-Index - 67
eISSN - 1475-4754
pISSN - 0003-813X
DOI - 10.1111/j.1475-4754.1995.tb00747.x
Subject(s) - copper , brass , neutron activation analysis , trace metal , metallurgy , copper alloy , metal , alloy , chemistry , geology , materials science , radiochemistry
Fifty‐three copper‐based metal fragments, recovered from the Robitaille site in southcentral Ontario, were analysed by neutron activation to establish their chemical make‐up and to sort them by their trace elemental chemistries. Three different European copper samples, one brassy copper and 48 brass samples with five different chemistries were found. As few as eight trading actions may account for all of the recovered European metal fragments.