Studies in organic archaeometry IV: analysis of an organic agglutinant used to fix iron-age clay figurines to their base
Year: 2002
Type: article
Abstract: Among many other objects a number of (mainly broken) figurines made of burnt clay were found in a richly furnished Early Iron-age tomb excavated in Lower Austria.Some of these had a dark organic material on their legs, obviously intended to fix the figurines to a base.A small sample of this agglutinant was analyzed: upon isolation of the characteristic terpenecontaining fraction 13 C-nmr spectroscopy showed considerable quantities of betulin.Thus this adhesive can be considered as birch bark pitch.
Source: ARKIVOC
Institutions: University of Vienna, TU Wien
Language: English
Subfield: Archeology (arts and humanities)
Field: Arts and Humanities
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: diamond
OpenAlex ID: W2168160383