Stone tools from prehistoric mining sites in north tyrol, austria: typology – terminology – material properties

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• who: Prehistoric copper mining and collaborators from the Mining archaeological field prospections and excavations conducted by the Research Center HiMAT at the University of Innsbruck yielded proof of extensive copper ore mining from the late Middle Bronze Age to the Early Iron Age (, , BC) in the mining regions of Kitzbu00fchel-Jochberg and Schwaz-Brixlegg in Northern TyrolThis paper deals with stone tools collected at prehistoric mining sites and focusses on their typology, material properties and the problem of terminology. Petrographic analyses show a conscious selection of special stone materials for different applications. Typically, hard and tough metamorphic . . .
  

   

  

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