Nicolau Escanilla

Autonomous University of Barcelona | UAB · Departament de Prehistòria/ASOME

Evidence of gold processing in the fortified site of Bruszczewo (Poland) is the first testimony of the production of gold artefacts in a domestic Early Bronze Age site of Central Europe. This paper highlights the potential of macrolithic tool ensembles as a key element for the recognition of metallurgical work processes. Moreover, it presents an op...

https://sci-hub.mksa.top/10.1016/j.jasrep.2018.08.030 The Spanish team that leads a research project at Saruq al Hadid excavated an area where about 450 gold items were recovered during the campaigns from 2015 to 2017. The site with a lengthy occupation from the end of the fourth millennium to the Islamic period is well known for its important fin...

Des de finals del segle XIX, en què trobem la primera referència al poblat talaiòtic de «Talaies de Can Jordi» en un manuscrit del prevere santanyiner Guillem Vadell, són múltiples les referències al jaciment en obres de diferent rellevància (Mascaró Pasarius, 1958, 1963 i 1967; Mascaró Pasarius i Aguiló, 1970; Enseñat, 1971; Rosselló Bordoy, 1973;...

Recent work on Copper Age in the Iberian Peninsula emphasizes a complexity and dynamism that forces us to rethink the current models around copper mining and metallurgy. This article will review the new archaeological evidence in the Guadalentín valley and the study of metallurgical debris from chalcolithic settlements. The results will be related...

The Argaric halberd is a specialized weapon for hand‐to‐hand combat, with its full development in the south‐east of the Iberian Peninsula between 2000 and 1800 cal BCE. This paper deals with the Argaric combat system and the factors that drove this type of confrontation, given the social order, the active and passive archaeological traces present i...

La campanya de excavacions a la Cova del Camp del Bisbe (Sencelles) de l’any 2014 va permetre recuperar un nombrós conjunt de botons de perforació en V, i vàries plaquetes amb doble perforació, que formaven part de l’aixovar funerari d’època Naviforme (ca. 1305 cal ANE). Juntament amb botons d’os i d’ullal de porc, una part important dels botons de...

Here we present the results obtained in the study of metallurgical debris of the Copper Age settlement of Agua Amarga (Fuensanta, Lorca). This study is integrated in a more widely comprehension of the development of metallurgy in the context of Guadalentín valley during Copper Age. A preliminary description of the different types of debris has been...

This work introduces a study of mining and metallurgy in the Guadalentín River valley (Murcia) in the 3rd-millennium cal BCE. This is the millennium that separates the first metallurgical manifestations in the region from the establishment of El Argar as a State. The study takes two separate contexts as a starting point: the natural resources and t...

We publish a new pedestal base crucible from Can Mur site (Valldoreix, Barcelona province) an Early Bronze Age settlement. Its typological characteristics are described and chemical composition data of copper residues (pXRF) are provided. Synchronic crucibles with hafting system from the Iberian Peninsula are discussed. After detailing the parallel...

Durant les recents campanyes d’excavació a la Cova del Camp del Bisbe s’ha pogut recuperar una de les col·leccions de botons més especials de la Prehistòria balear. Aquests formaren part de la roba o, tal vegada, d'algun tipus de sudari que duien els difunts en ser dipositats damunt del trespol de la cova durant el període naviforme mig (1450-1200...

Master Research abaout the metallic artifacts of Late Bronze Age Northern France.

Most authors since the Siret brothers agree that metallurgy played a crucial role in the development of Copper Age and El Argar archaeological groups of southeast Iberia. However, after more than 100 years of research surprisingly little is known about the specific metallurgical work processes and, in particular, about the mining process. Although...

This paper tackles the prehistoric copper mining activities in the coastal regions of the present day province of Murcia. Surveys carried out in the frame of the La Bastida project have allowed to locate several mines that operated during the III millennium BCE and to study their archaeological evidence. This study allows us to propose some hypothe...

RESUMEN La metalurgia en el sureste peninsular jugó un papel destacado en el desarrollo de los grupos arqueológicos de Los Millares y El Argar. Sin embargo, hasta la fecha uno de los aspectos determinantes de la producción metalúrgica prehistórica continúa siendo prácticamente des-conocido: la minería. Recientemente este panorama ha cambiado gracia...

L'europe occidentale connaît durant la seconde moitié du troisième millénaire un développement important de la production métallurgique. A saint-Véran dans le Haut-Queyras (Hautes-Alpes), l'exploitation et la transformation des ressources cupriféres sont attestées entre 2450 et 1950 avant notre ère. De récents sondages montrent l'existence d'une pe...

The old mines of Cerro Minado, near Huércal-Overa (Almería), were irregularly operated, chiefly for copper, since Ancient times up to the early 1980’s. The mining works exposed mineralized zones, located in dolomites in contact with phyllites, rich in secondary species of Cu, Co, Zn, and Ni. Several incomplete texts presented some minerals, like Ar...

The metallurgical production increases dramatically in Western Europe during the second half of the third millenium BC. At Saint Véran in the Haut Queyras, Hautes-Alpes, copper mining and smelting is testified between 2450 et 1950 BC, with some 2000 t of copper ore, namely bornite, having been extracted from the main mine known to date, the “tranch...