Pernicka (r.) and Moritz Numrich at work on the laser ablation machine at the National Archaeological Museum in Athens.
Pernicka (r.) and Moritz Numrich at work on the laser ablation machine at the National Archaeological Museum in Athens. The gold in objects from Troia, Poliochni - a settlement on the island of Lemnos, located about 60 kilometers off the coast of Troia - and Mesopotamian Ur has the same geographical origin and was traded over long distances. This is the conclusion reached by an international team of researchers who used an innovative mobile laser method to analyze samples of famous Early Bronze Age jewelry from Troia and Poliochni for the first time. The results were published in the Journal of Archaeological Science . The study was initiated by Ernst Pernicka, Scientific Director of the Curt-Engelhorn Center for Archaeometry (CEZA) at the Reiss-Engelhorn Museums in Mannheim and Head of the Troia Project at the University of Tübingen, and Barbara Horejs, Director of the Austrian Archaeological Institute at the Austrian Academy of Sciences in Vienna. Their international team included natural scientists and archaeologists from the Curt-Engelhorn Center for Archaeometry, the Austrian Archaeological Institute in Vienna (ÖAI), and the National Archaeological Museum in Athens.
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