Provenance study on ‘Big bronze drums’: a method to investigate the ancient bronze industry of Guangxi, Southwest China from Han to Tang dynasty (around 200 BC–900 AC)
2020; Elsevier BV; Volume: 44; Linguagem: Inglês
10.1016/j.culher.2020.02.002
ISSN1778-3674
AutoresQiuyan Lu, Guisen Zou, Yanxiang Li, Lin Zheng, Wei Wang,
Tópico(s)Archaeological Research and Protection
ResumoPrevious provenance studies on bronze drums mainly focused on ore sources, yet ignored the significance of big bronze drum casting, which represents the highest level of bronze manufacturing techniques, as an important part of the bronze industry of a frontier region under the specific historical background. This paper, for the first time, not only presented the analytical results of the composition and the microstructure of 50 new samples from big bronze drums, but also compared their lead isotope to the published data of 196 samples from 7 types of bronze drum, as well as 112 ore samples from Guangxi, Yunnan, Guizhou Province and Vietnam. In addition, this paper introduced the casting tradition of bronze drums through both of composition analysis and metallographic examination. The comparison of lead isotope between the above 7 types and 4 regions indicated that there existed a very close relation among the bronze drums, and the local metal ore sources were generally employed to cast drums according to the convenient principles as well as the sphere of tribal influence. Nonetheless, both exchange and communication existed.
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