Pages: 297-315 | DOI: https://doi.org/10.55086/sp254297315
This article examines the results of an analytical study of non-ferrous and precious metals used for jewelry and clothing items of the 2nd–7th centuries, as well as coin finds from sites in the forest-steppe zone located in the Tula, Belgorod, Bryansk, Kursk, Voronezh, Lipetsk and Tambov regions, and from sites in the Black Sea zone situated on the Taman Peninsula and in Crimea. The chemical composition of the metal in jewelry and clothing items was studied using the XRF method; the sample included more than 4.000 samples. As a result, a nomenclature of metals and alloys circulating in the late Roman and early medieval periods at sites in the forest-steppe and Black Sea metalworking zones was identified, the dynamics of changes in the leading types of metals and alloys were traced, and the volume of processed and fresh metal was determined. For each zone, the most probable sources of metal used in metalworking in the late Roman and early medieval periods are considered.
Keywords: metals and alloys, late Roman and Early Medieval period, forest-steppe, Black Sea zone, metal sources, XRF
Information about author:
Irina Saprykina (Moscow, Russian Federation). Candidate of Historical Sciences. Institute of Archaeology of the Russian Academy of Sciences. Dmitry Ulyanov St., 19, Moscow, 117292, Russian Federation; V. I. Vernadsky Crimean Federal University. Academician Vernadsky Ave., 4, Simferopol, 295007, Crimea
E-mail: [email protected]
ORCID: 0000-0003-0059-0170