Heterogeneous metal sources for mintage in the early Han empire, second century BCE: archaeometallurgical study of the Banliang coins from the Guanghuacun cemetery, Chengdu, Southwest China

doi:10.1007/s12520-024-01949-y

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	Heterogeneous metal sources for mintage in the early Han empire, second century BCE: archaeometallurgical study of the Banliang coins from the Guanghuacun cemetery, Chengdu, Southwest China
	Ma, Ding 1; Wang, Ning2 ; Li, Pei 2; Yang, Tao 2; Yang, Jun 3; Wang, Ruizhe 1,4; Luo, Wugan 1,4
	2024-03-01
发表期刊	ARCHAEOLOGICAL AND ANTHROPOLOGICAL SCIENCES
ISSN	1866-9557
卷号	16 期号:3 页码:14
通讯作者	Luo, Wugan([email protected])
摘要	The supply of metal materials for mintage is important for state governance, and the patterns of which appear to reflect the rise and decline of the central authority to some extent. Many details about this issue in the early western Han dynasty, China, still need to be verified, such as what is the pattern of metal supply for mintage and whether other sources exist in addition to the domestically exploited raw metal? In this paper, 15 early Western Han Banliang(sic) coins excavated from the Guanghuacun(sic) cemetery, Chengdu city, Southwest China, were studied via scientific analyses (SEM-EDS, ICP-AES and MC-ICP-MS etc.). The results reveal three types of alloys and might constitute the first scientific identification of Cu-Sb-As alloyed ancient Chinese coins. By combining the comparisons of alloying techniques and lead isotopic ratios, with the archaeological context and historical texts, it can be inferred that many coins should be made of domestically exploited metal from the Xiaoqinling region, which was also the main provenance of the material for the Banliang coins of the Qin dynasty, while the materials of others are probably derived from the Sichuan-Yunnan-Guizhou Rhombic Block region, Southwest China, which was outside of Han's control. This finding provides new insight into the weakness of the central government in the early stage of the Han empire and reflects the communication between the Central Plains dynasty and the culture in Southwest China in this era.
关键词	Coins China Western Han dynasty Cu-Sb-As alloy Provenance study
DOI	10.1007/s12520-024-01949-y
关键词[WOS]	BRONZE-AGE ; COPPER ; ALLOYS
收录类别	SCI
语种	英语
资助项目	National Social Science Fund of China
项目资助者	National Social Science Fund of China
WOS研究方向	Anthropology ; Archaeology ; Geology
WOS类目	Anthropology ; Archaeology ; Geosciences, Multidisciplinary
WOS记录号	WOS:001169392600002
出版者	SPRINGER HEIDELBERG
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文献类型	期刊论文
条目标识符	http://119.78.100.205/handle/311034/23464
专题	中国科学院古脊椎动物与古人类研究所
通讯作者	Luo, Wugan
作者单位	1.Univ Chinese Acad Sci, Dept Archaeol & Anthropol, Beijing 100049, Peoples R China 2.Chengdu Cultural Rel & Archaeol Res Inst, Chengdu 610072, Peoples R China 3.China Numismat Museum, Beijing 100031, Peoples R China 4.Chinese Acad Sci, Inst Vertebrate Paleontol & Paleoanthropol, Key Lab Vertebrate Evolut & Human Origin, Beijing 100044, Peoples R China
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Ma, Ding,Wang, Ning,Li, Pei,et al. Heterogeneous metal sources for mintage in the early Han empire, second century BCE: archaeometallurgical study of the Banliang coins from the Guanghuacun cemetery, Chengdu, Southwest China[J]. ARCHAEOLOGICAL AND ANTHROPOLOGICAL SCIENCES,2024,16(3):14.
APA	Ma, Ding.,Wang, Ning.,Li, Pei.,Yang, Tao.,Yang, Jun.,...&Luo, Wugan.(2024).Heterogeneous metal sources for mintage in the early Han empire, second century BCE: archaeometallurgical study of the Banliang coins from the Guanghuacun cemetery, Chengdu, Southwest China.ARCHAEOLOGICAL AND ANTHROPOLOGICAL SCIENCES,16(3),14.
MLA	Ma, Ding,et al."Heterogeneous metal sources for mintage in the early Han empire, second century BCE: archaeometallurgical study of the Banliang coins from the Guanghuacun cemetery, Chengdu, Southwest China".ARCHAEOLOGICAL AND ANTHROPOLOGICAL SCIENCES 16.3(2024):14.