Foundry in the Late Bronze Age Baiões/Santa Luzia Cultural Group : some reflections starting from a new metallic mould for unifacial palstaves

• Autor(a) principal: Senna-Martinez, João Carlos
• Data de Publicação: 2020
• Outros Autores: Valério, Pedro, Casimiro, Maria Helena, Ferreira, Luís M., Araújo, Maria de Fátima, Peixoto, Horácio
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: eng
• Título da fonte: Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal (Repositórios Cientìficos)
• Texto Completo: http://hdl.handle.net/10451/45502
• topic: Archaeometallurgy; Foundry moulds; Baiões / Santa Luzia cultural group; Late Bronze Age; Arqueometalurgia; Moldes de fundição; Grupo Baiões/Santa Luzia; Bronze Final

During the last quarter of a century, progress on the understanding of metallurgical practices of the Baiões / Santa Luzia cultural group of Central Portugal produced results that allowed us to better understand and characterize a fundamental cultural group of the Iberian Late Bronze Age (LBA). However, the study of the foundry moulds lacks a convenient interpretive synthesis. The discovery of a new exemplar of metallic mould for single-faceted palstaves – one of the types that characterize Central Portugal LBA metallurgy – creates the opportunity to, starting with its archaeometallurgical characterization, produce an overview of Baiões / Santa Luzia moulds and foundry procedures, namely for the palstaves moulds that, until now, are mostly known in the area of this cultural group.