Resumen de Copper-melting crucibles from the surface of Altyn-Depe, Turkmenistan (ca 2500-2000 BC)

Elisia Masioli, Massimo Vidale, Domenico Artioli, Pierluigi Bianchetti, Giuseppe Guida, Giancarlo Sidoti, Sergio Di Pilato, Sandro Salvatori

• Ten crucible fragments collected at a single location on the surface of Altyn-Depe, most probably datable to the second half of the 3rd millennium BC, have been studied and analysed by the means of different techniques. The research provides new information on Middle Bronze Age (Namazga V) copper-based metallurgy at this important southern Turkmenian early urban site.