I assume Ron Hancock is on the group but I'll send your request to him. He
is the most experienced analyst for trade metals, copper-based anyway. As
for the metallurgy, I'll check around. Sorry for belated reply. I've been
out of town. Where is your site (more or less)? I'd be very interested to
hear about it.
At 02:25 PM 4/28/99 -0700, you wrote:
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>Over the past several years, I have excavated a site in the western USA
>that spans a period from c. AD 1440 to 1830, that is from before through
>the
>early contact period. It contains a large assemblage
>of copper and iron artifacts from pre-contact and contact period contexts.
>I am preparing a grant proposal to cover some aspects of the
>continuing analysis of
>materials recovered from the site, including the metal. We have had some
>done, gratis, by a variety of researchers, for a variety of reasons. But,
>I am new to archaeometallurgy, and am looking for labs that do
>metallurgical analyses for archaeologists. If people want to reply off
>list with recommendations and suggestions, I would very much appreciate
>it.
>
>With the copper, we are interested in whether it is native copper, or not
>(the four pieces we've had done are not native copper), and how it was
>worked. With the iron,
>we are interested in a variety of things, including how it was made,
>carbon and nickel content. THe one piece of iron we've had analyzed is
>non-metereoitic, with a very low carbon content. It dates (based on 6 14C
>dates) to AD 1440.
>
>Thank You,
>
>Ken Ames
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>Kenneth M. Ames
>Department of Anthropology
>Portland State University,
>Portland, Or. 97207
>503-725-3318
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