Sabbatical Patrick Degryse: Micro-analysis of cultural artifacts: sourcing antimony used in late Bronze age pyrotechnology KU Leuven
Antimony minerals were frequently used from the 5th millennium BCE onwards, as a resource in metallurgy and glass making. Nevertheless, questions concerning technology and provenance have not been satisfactorily answered. To provenance antimony ores used in ancient technology, the group of P. Degryse developed Sb isotopic analysis (AIA) to compare ores to artefacts, next to using more established lead isotope analysis (LIA). The former ...