Shiny bronze in glassy matter: an inconspicuous piece of slag from the Bronze Age mining site of Mushiston (Tajikistan) and its significance for the development of tin metallurgy in Central Asia

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Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences, vol. 14, 150

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• entity Zeravshan Valley and mountain corridor
  Evidence confidence: ◈ moderate
  informs · contextualizes · Site setting and regional metallurgy discussion

  Supports the mining and mountain-corridor frame.

• date assertion Zeravshan Valley and mountain corridor — date assertion
  Evidence confidence: ◈ moderate
  informs · contextualizes · Site setting and regional metallurgy discussion

  Supports the mining and mountain-corridor frame.

• geography assertion Mushiston mining and smelting zone — geography assertion
  Evidence confidence: ◈ moderate
  informs · contextualizes · Archaeological mining and smelting zone

  Connects the locality to dated Bronze Age production.

• geography assertion Zeravshan Valley and mountain corridor — geography assertion
  Evidence confidence: ◈ low
  informs · contextualizes · Regional geology and mining context

  Supports the non-geometric spatial description.

• relationship Mushiston mining and smelting zone — located in — Zeravshan Valley and mountain corridor
  Evidence confidence: ◈ high
  informs · locates · Mining-zone setting

  Provides archaeological location context.

• date assertion Tin-bearing copper production at Mushiston — date assertion
  Evidence confidence: ◈ high
  informs · provides scientific evidence · Ore, slag, co-smelting and 1900-1400 BCE chronology

  Provides the direct production evidence.

• relationship Research record — associated with
  Evidence confidence: ◈ high
  informs · provides scientific evidence · Ore, slag, co-smelting and 1900-1400 BCE chronology

  Provides the direct production evidence.

• entity Mushiston mining and smelting zone
  Evidence confidence: ◈ high
  informs · provides scientific evidence · Archaeometallurgical results and chronology

  Provides the production evidence.

• event Tin-bearing copper production at Mushiston
  Evidence confidence: ◈ high
  informs · provides scientific evidence · Ore, slag, co-smelting and 1900-1400 BCE chronology

  Provides the direct production evidence.

• relationship Research record — associated with
  Evidence confidence: ◈ high
  informs · provides scientific evidence · Ore, slag, co-smelting and 1900-1400 BCE chronology

  Provides the direct production evidence.

• date assertion Mushiston mining and smelting zone — date assertion
  Evidence confidence: ◈ high
  informs · provides scientific evidence · Archaeometallurgical results and chronology

  Provides the production evidence.