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AUTHOR
Pierre Fluck
The Alsatian Altenberg : a seven-hundred-year Laboratory for Silver Metallurgy
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Historical mining and smelting in the Vosges Mountains (France) recorded in two ombrotrophic peat bogs
Two peat sequences were sampled in the vicinity of the main mining districts of the Vosges Mountains: Sainte-Marie-aux-Mines and Plancher-les-Mines. Lead isotopic compositions and excess lead fluxes were calculated for each of these radiocarbon-dated sequences. Geochemical records are in very good agreement with the mining history of the area, well known over the last millennium. Except for an anomaly corresponding to the Middle Bronze Age which has not yet been resolved, there is no clear geochemical evidence of local metal production in the Vosges before the 10th century as excess lead deposition archived between 500 BC and 500 AD is attributed to long-range transport of polluted particul…
Approche interdisciplinaire d’un atelier minéralurgique du XVe s à Sainte-Marie aux-Mines (Haut-Rhin, France)
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