@misc{10481/38427,
year = {2012},
url = {http://hdl.handle.net/10481/38427},
abstract = {More than 700 silver objects are known from the Middle Bronze Age El Argar culture, which contrasts significantly with the rest of Bronze Age Europe, where silver is mostly rare. This has traditionally been explained by the difficulties of extracting silver from complex ores by cupellation and the relative abundance of easily accessible occurrences of native silver and silver chlorides in the south of the Iberian peninsula. However, until now in the Iberian Bronze Age the use of native silver has only been inferred by the absence of evidence of cupellation. The results of trace element analysis of a series of silver objects from several Argaric settlements reveal for the first time positive evidence for the use of native silver. Lead isotope analyses show that hardly any of the objects were made of silver from known and characterised mining districts.},
abstract = {Se han documentado más de 700 objetos de plata de la cultura argárica del Bronce Medio. Esta cifra contrasta con la realidad del II milenio AC europeo, donde la plata es muy escasa. Esto se ha explicado tradicionalmente por la dificultad de extraer plata de minerales complejos mediante la técnica de copelación y la relativa abundancia de plata nativa y cloruros de plata fácilmente accesibles en el sur de la Península Ibérica. Sin embargo, hasta ahora, el uso de plata nativa en la Edad del Bronce ibérica se había deducido principalmente por la falta de evidencias de copelación. Los resultados de los análisis de elementos traza de una serie de objetos de plata de varios yacimientos argáricos suministran por primera vez una evidencia positiva del uso de plata nativa. Los análisis de isótopos de plomo demuestran que la mayoría de los objetos no procede de ninguno de los distritos mineros conocidos y caracterizados.},
publisher = {Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (CSIC)},
keywords = {Bronze Age},
keywords = {Argar},
keywords = {Silver},
keywords = {Lead isotope analysis},
keywords = {Trace elements},
keywords = {Provenance},
keywords = {Edad de Bronce},
keywords = {Plata},
keywords = {Isótopos de plomo},
keywords = {Elementos traza},
keywords = {Procedencia},
title = {The silver of the south Iberian El Argar culture: A first look at production and distribution},
doi = {10.3989/tp.2012.12093},
author = {Bertelheim, Martin and Contreras Cortés, Francisco and Moreno Onorato, María Auxiliadora and Murillo Barroso, María de las Mercedes and Pernicka, Ernst},
}