Scientific Analysis of Metals from the Yinsuodao Site, Yunnan Province

Summary

This is an abstract from the "Recent Research on Early Chinese Borderland Cultures and Archaeological Materials" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology.

Up to now, the Yinsuodao site is one of the earliest Bronze Age sites known in Yunnan Province. This work will present the results of metallographic and lead isotope analyses of a number of metals discovered at this site. The metallographic studies suggest that the metal technology at Yinsuodao represents an incipient stage in the evolutionary course of its copper-base industry; the lead isotope studies point to the possibility that the raw materials used to extract copper for bronze making at Yinsuodao may have shared the same source(s) with the metals discovered at Haimenkou, an early Bronze Age site in a nearby region.

This Resource is Part of the Following Collections

• Recent Research on Early Chinese Borderland Cultures and Archaeological Materials   •
• Society for American Archaeology 84th Annual Meeting, Albuquerque, NM (2019)

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Abstract Id(s): 24709