book chapter
Analysis of 'bronzes' from Benin
archaeology of Benin : excavations and other researches in and around Benin City, Nigeria • Oxford • Published In 1975 • Pages: 231-233
By: Shaw, Thurstan.
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
Results are presented for spectrographic analysis of 10 "bronzes" from the excavations at Benin City. The 7 items from Cutting II of the Clerks' Quarters site (dating to the thirteenth century) are all tin bronzes, while the 3 from a horde in Cutting IV (no earlier than the nineteenth century) are leaded brasses. A principal components analysis of 29 Benin "bronzes" in museum collections confirms the use two distinctive alloying processes.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Organization and analysis of results of research
- Nonferrous metal industries
- traditionCulture name from the Outline of World Cultures (OWC)
- West African Regional Development
- RegionThe area the document pertains to
- Africa
- Sub RegionThe more specific area the document pertains to, which is located within the Region
- Western Africa
- Document TypeMay include journal articles, essays, collections of essays, monographs, or chapters/parts of monographs
- book chapter
- Evaluation
- Creator TypeThe type of person writing the document, e.g. Ethnographer, Missionary, Archaeologist, Folklorist, Linguist, Indigenous Person, and so on.
- Archaeologist
- Document Rating A ranking done by HRAF anthropologists based on the strength of the source material on a scale of 1 to 5, as follows: 1 - poor; 2 - fair; 3 - good, useful data, but not uniformly excellent; 4 - excellent secondary data; 5 - excellent primary data.
- 4: Excellent Secondary Data
- AnalystThe HRAF anthropologist who subject indexed the document and prepared other materials for the eHRAF culture/tradition collection
- Sarah Berry; 2022
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- Not Applicable
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- 1200-1900 AD
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- Clerks' Quarters, Benin City, Edo, Nigeria
- NotesAdditional notes
- By Thurstan Shaw
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 76361982
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- West African Regional Development