安徽枞阳陈家山遗址青铜渣初步研究

Preliminary Research of Bronze Smelting Slag from the Chenjiashan Site in Zongyang, Anhui Province

枞阳陈家山遗址是皖西南地区新发现的一处商周时期青铜冶金遗存,本文报道了该遗址14枚炉渣的科学分析结果。炉渣中不仅存在红铜、锡青铜冶炼渣,还发现有砷青铜、砷锡青铜冶炼渣。青铜冶炼流程为两步法,所用锡料可能来自赣北。本文对于全面认识长江中下游早期冶金技术以及产业格局具有重要的学术价值,并指出商周时期这种锡、砷青铜冶金并行的现象是值得重视的。

The Chenjiashan site is one of the bronze metallurgical sites of the Shang-Zhou periods that have been recently discovered in southwest Anhui.A total of 14 slag samples were collected and subjected to metallurgical study(e.g.,SEM-EDS analysis).The results identified remains for manufacturing a wide range of alloys,including Cu-Sn,Cu-As and Cu-As-Sn alloys.In addition,the analytical results show that the smelting processes of bronze included two steps,and the source of tin mineral might have come from the northern Jiangxi region.This study is of great value for understanding the early metallurgical technology and the pattern of metal industry in the middle and lower reaches of the Yangtze River.In addition,the co-existing pattern of producing tin-bronze and arsenic-bronze should receive more scholarly attention in the future.