id
	11803
Url
	https://chloe.cnr.it/s/BiDiAr/item/11803
Resource template
	Academic Article
Resource class
	bibo:AcademicArticle
Title
	Weight regulation in British and Irish Bronze Age gold objects: a reanalysis and reinterpretation
Creator
	Hermann, Raphael
Date
	2022
Language
	eng
Abstract
	Sophisticated metrological systems were common in the European Bronze Age and mass-regulation has been argued for various classes of object, including gold artefacts. A recent study published in Antiquity used Cosine Quantogram Analysis to demonstrate mass-regulation in a small sample of gold objects from Britain, Ireland and France. Since then, substantial quantities of new data from British Bronze Age gold objects have been collated. Here, the author presents the results of Cosine Quantogram Analysis on nearly 1000 such objects—the largest sample analysed to date. The results demonstrate that, even though some regularities can be discerned, mass-regulation is no longer a tenable interpretation of gold objects from Bronze Age Britain.
Is Part Of
	Antiquity
Cited by
	11060
Doi
	https://doi.org/10.15184/aqy.2021.54
Issn
	0003-598X, 1745-1744
Issue
	386
Pages
	336-353
Uri
	https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/antiquity/article/weight-regulation-in-british-and-irish-bronze-age-gold-objects-a-reanalysis-and-reinterpretation/562C4EF473428DED179FE585C6B7AB58
Volume
	96
Homepage
	https://www.zotero.org/groups/5293298/bidiar/items/2ZFAXTRG/item-list

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