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HOČEVARICA - an eneolithic pile dwelling in the Ljubljansko barje

Žiga ŠMIT

3 HOČEVARICA: FIELD RESEARCH, A PRESENTATION OF THE MATERIAL FINDS AND THE SCIENTIFIC ANALYSES

3.4 Investigation of copper metallurgy at Hočevarica using the PIXE method

Abstract

The small decorative ringlets are made of dark gray very fine-grained slate, a sericite-quartz slate. The closest source areas for such rocks are in the northern Karavanke and the Pohorje.


Concetrations (in weight %) at the surface of the pot.

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2004, (Opera Instituti Archaeologici Sloveniae, 8), 328 pp, 208 b/w or color photos, figures and charts, 20 x 29 cm, hardcover, ISBN 961-6500-28-7.

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