Gold parting, iridium and provenance of ancient silver: A reply to Pernicka

Autor:	Mercedes Murillo-Barroso, Marcos Martinón-Torres, Michael F. Charlton, Jonathan R. Wood
Rok vydání:	2017
Předmět:	Literature Archeology Provenance 060102 archaeology business.industry 010401 analytical chemistry chemistry.chemical_element 06 humanities and the arts 01 natural sciences Archaeology 0104 chemical sciences Gold parting chemistry 0601 history and archaeology Iridium business Geology Log ratio
Zdroj:	Journal of Archaeological Science. 86:127-130
ISSN:	0305-4403
DOI:	10.1016/j.jas.2017.07.005
Popis:	We present a detailed response to Professor Pernicka's critique of our paper entitled “Iridium to provenance ancient silver”. We have concluded that Pernicka's hypothesis, which suggests that elevated levels of iridium in ancient silver artefacts is a consequence of silver deriving from the cementation (parting) process, does not account for the available evidence and that his critiques of the analyses we presented seem misplaced. We offer a simpler solution and show that the structure of our transformed data is founded on logical reasoning which is borne out by the empirical results. Essentially, this response supports our view reported in the original paper that the variation in iridium in ancient silver is largely geological rather than a consequence of de-silvering gold.
Databáze:	OpenAIRE
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