Title
A lead isotope database for copper mineralization along the Guadalquivir River Valley and surrounding areas
Other title
Una base de datos de isótopos de plomo para mineralizaciones de cobre en el Valle del Guadalquivir y áreas adyacentes
Date Issued
01 May 2021
Access level
metadata only access
Resource Type
journal article
Author(s)
Sáez R.
Nocete F.
Gil Ibarguchi J.I.
Rodríguez-Bayona M.
Inacio N.
Rodríguez J.
Zalduegui J.F.S.
Publisher(s)
Springer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH
Abstract
The Guadalquivir River Valley constitutes the main geographic environment for the earliest development of political structures in the South of the Iberian Peninsula. The inception of Cu-metallurgy over the millennia 4th to 2nd BC in this region coincides with the rise of social complexity as well as the strategic control of the territory based on the command of the supply of mineral resources. One of the main tools in the study of metallurgical processes and goods movement is the analysis of metal provenance by means of Pb isotope composition. This study includes 98 new Pb isotope analyses performed on Cu mineralizations, many of them with archaeological evidence of exploitation by the first metallurgical societies. The results provided here represent a substantial complement to those presented in published databases and allow for a better discrimination of potential sources for raw material supply of minerals used in the metallurgical processes. The existence of uncertainties introduced by the overlapping of Pb-isotope signatures of Cu-ores obtained from different geological contexts and presence of radiogenic Pb in a number of samples is pointed out.
Start page
411
End page
427
Volume
47
Issue
February 1
Language
English
OCDE Knowledge area
Geología
Scopus EID
2-s2.0-85098787379
Source
Journal of Iberian Geology
ISSN of the container
16986180
Sponsor(s)
This study was funded by grants from the Spanish Ministry of Science and Technology and the European Regional Development Fund (PIGMALIOM IV HAR-2010-16210, PIGMALIOM V HAR2017-82996, and MINECO/FEDER Project CGL2015-63530-P), and by the UPV/EHU (GIU15/05). Financial support for this work has been provided by grants from the Spanish Ministry of Science and Technology and the European Regional Development Fund (PIGMALIOM IV HAR-2010-16210, PIGMALIOM V HAR2017-82996, and MINECO/FEDER Project CGL2015-63530-P), and by the UPV/EHU (GIU15/05). We also thank technical and human support provided by the Geochronology and Isotope Geochemistry SGIker facility (UPV/EHU, MINECO, GV/EJ, ERDF and ESF). Improvements to the English text were done by Ian Emmet.
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