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Neutron Diffraction analysis of prehistoric copper alloy artefacts from Italy

Abstract: This proposal is part of TEMPI, a two-year Marie Slodowska-Curie project at Newcastle University (2015-2017).The wider project seeks to reassess the development of early metalwork in Italy from ca 4500 to 2000 BC through a combination of radiocarbon dating and new artefact classification criteria which take into account the technological transformations undergone by the objects during their life-cycles. The experiment involves 18 copper alloy prehistoric artefacts from the British Museum collections. Main goals of the experiment are: a) to reconstruct the technological alterations of the objects with the spatially resolved maps of composition and crystallographic texture obtained through Neutron Diffraction analysis; and b) to compare and contrast these results with data previously gained from the same objects through an optical microscopy technique, Wear analysis.

Principal Investigator: Dr Cristiano Iaia
Experimenter: Ms Laura Perucchetti
Experimenter: Dr Winfried Kockelmann
Experimenter: Dr Andrea Dolfini

DOI: 10.5286/ISIS.E.RB1710190

ISIS Experiment Number: RB1710190

Publisher: STFC ISIS Neutron and Muon Source

Data format: RAW/Nexus
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Dr Cristiano Iaia et al; (2017): Neutron Diffraction analysis of prehistoric copper alloy artefacts from Italy , STFC ISIS Neutron and Muon Source, https://doi.org/10.5286/ISIS.E.RB1710190

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