Copper Containing Arsenic: Coppersmith or Admiralty – Bronzing

Subject Areas : Prehistoric Archaeology

Alireza Hejebri Nobari ¹ , Khodakaram Mazaheri ²

1 - Assistant Professor, Department of Archaeology, Tarbiat Modares University, Tehran, Iran.
2 - Assistant Professor, Department of Archaeology, Islamic Azad university, Ilam Branch,, Ilam, Iran.

Received: 2023-08-01 Accepted : 2023-08-01 Published : 2005-08-23

Keywords: Metal, Old Metallic, Copper Containing Arsenic, Natural Admiralty, Artificial Admiralty, Admiralty, Metal’s Age,

Abstract :

Human being since the time when knew pure component of metals like Copper and Gold, just like working with other materials and natural resources, as a result of experiences which obtained in working with metal, in this respect also could attain to important progressions which its result was to make very important and cultural objects in the past from the different metals in order to achieve to special goals. One of these series of metal objects contained of a high combination of Copper and arsenic and most of them have been produced at a specific limitation of them in the past. Despite all studies that so far have been taken place regarding to recognition of these series of objects which contain high combination of Copper and Arsenic, unfortunately the real position of these kinds of objects in the process of metallic industries’ developments of ancient time is ambiguous. In this article we want to analyses the topic of Copper containing arsenic by making use of different resources in geology, metallurgy and other findings regarding to old metallic.