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SUBMITTER: Hansen S
PROVIDER: S-EPMC6457500 | biostudies-literature | 2019
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Hansen Svend S Montero-Ruiz Ignacio I Rovira Salvador S Steiniger Daniel D Toderaş Meda M
PloS one 20190410 4
Eleven biconical vessels from the Copper Age sites Pietrele and Blejeşti (Romania) have been investigated using p-XRF. In most cases, traces of lead could be measured on their surfaces. Samples of slag-like material from two vessels and the clay of one vessel were investigated using laboratory methods, namely SEM, XRD, LIA and optical microscopy. The vessels were obviously used as a kind of crucible in which slag-like remains and galena ore were detected. It still remains unclear as to what fina ...[more]