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Bronze Age Cauldrons in Atlantic Europe: Materials Selection and Design

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  22 February 2011

J. Peter Northover  and
Sabine Gerloff
J. Peter Northover
Affiliation:
Department of Metallurgy and Science of Materials, University of Oxford, Parks Road, Oxford, Ox1 3PH, UK
Sabine Gerloff
Affiliation:
Seminar für Ur- und Frühgeschichte, Altenteinstraße 15, D-1000 Berlin 33 (West), Germany
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Abstract

The cauldrons and buckets of the later Bronze Age in Atlantic Europe, produced from the 12th to the 6th century BC, were some of the most complex fabrications made in that period of prehistory. They show a steadily increasing understanding of the problems posed by their design and an increasing elegance in their solution. At the same time they demonstrate considerable awareness of materials properties and provide one of the clearest instances in the Bronze Age of materials selection for specific purposes.

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Research Article
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MRS Online Proceedings Library (OPL) , Volume 123: Symposium L – Materials Issues in Art and Archaeology I , 1988 , 199
Copyright
Copyright © Materials Research Society 1988

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