Recently found in Matcz, in the municipality of Horodło in the Lublin Voivodeship in Poland, a unique copper axe dating back to the 4th-3rd millennium BCE, has been identified as belonging to the ...

Ötzi the Iceman—our favorite Copper Age corpsicle—is the gift that keeps on giving. A recent analysis of the metal found in the Neolithic hunter’s copper axe suggests a point of origin in Southern ...

Copper axe from Frömkenberg (Germany) in the Scanning Electron Microscope of the Institute of Materials Science at Kiel University. Through the lead isotope analyses in this study, the origin of the ...

(CN) – During the fourth and third millennia B.C. what is now Italy was renowned for its copper deposits and complex metalwork exchange networks, according to newly discovered evidence revealed in ...

The copper used to make Ötzi's axe blade did not come from the Alpine region as had previously been supposed, but from ore mined in southern Tuscany. Ötzi was probably not involved in working the ...