<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><xml><records><record><source-app name="Biblio" version="6.x">Drupal-Biblio</source-app><ref-type>17</ref-type><contributors><authors><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Valério, P.a</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Soares, A.M.M.a</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Araújo, M.F.a</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Silva, R.J.C.b</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Baptista, L.c</style></author></authors></contributors><titles><title><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Middle Bronze Age Arsenical Copper Alloys in Southern Portugal</style></title><secondary-title><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Archaeometry</style></secondary-title></titles><dates><year><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">2016</style></year></dates><urls><web-urls><url><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-84945302290&amp;doi=10.1111%2farcm.12212&amp;partnerID=40&amp;md5=44c585c7be0cc949bcf9e67d645ed2fd</style></url></web-urls></urls><number><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">6</style></number><publisher><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Blackwell Publishing Ltd</style></publisher><volume><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">58</style></volume><pages><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">1003-1023</style></pages><language><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">eng</style></language><abstract><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">In the Iberian Peninsula, the copper metallurgy from the Chalcolithic to the Middle Bronze Age (MBA) was mostly characterized by low arsenic contents. A collection of 53 MBA artefacts from southern Portugal was analysed by micro-EDXRF, optical microscopy, SEM–EDS and Vickers to investigate the metal composition and manufacture. No technological distinction was found between artefacts from domestic and funerary contexts, which were radiocarbon-dated to 2000–1500 cal bc. The arsenic contents of almost 100 MBA artefacts from this region, including the above-mentioned set, have a Gaussian distribution with a high average (3.9 wt% As). Possible explanations are discussed for this distinctive metallurgy at the south-western end of the Iberian Peninsula. © 2015 University of Oxford</style></abstract><notes><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">cited By 0</style></notes></record></records></xml>