Similar to ancient ceramics, slags are a memory of the composition of the precursor's materials, i.e. ore, intergrown with gangue and host rock, perhaps as a result of the use of fluxes intentionally added to a furnace charge.
To decipher the history of slags—e.g., the kind of ore from which they originated, their formation by high-temperature processes, the technological skill of ancient metallurgists, and the social …
In the present work, elemental and microstructural analyses by WDXRF, SEM-EDS and XRD were performed on recently recognised tin slags from the Iron Age Carvalhelhos …
In this research, two types of slags such as slag with glassy appearance and granulated slag were selected for the study. The microscopic structure and distribution of slag components were investigated using optical …
Similar to ancient ceramics, slags are a memory of the composition of the precursor's materials, i.e. ore, intergrown with gangue and host rock, perhaps as a result of the …
This chapter aims to give an overview of how copper slag mineralogy is investigated and the type of information it yields in order to help our understanding of past metallurgies and societies.
Ben-Yosef and his colleagues studied 154 slag samples from those old smelting centers and made a timeline through radiocarbon dating based on the charcoal mixed in. They used X-ray fluorescence...
The purpose of this work is to investigate slag specimens that were uncovered during the 2003-2006 excavation seasons by Prof. Yener's team for the purpose of reconstructing the life-cycle of these specimens in an effort to better …
Ancient slag from non-ferrous metallurgy has mostly been divided into two groups based on technological grounds: smelting slags and crucible slags (melting/refining/ casting slags).
Studying these iron slags was important because of their archaeological and technological interests. In this study selected five iron slags for the archaeometallurgical studies, energy dispersive X-ray fluorescence …