Silver necklace beads from chalcolithic necropoleis near Rome came from Sardinia

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. "We want to take into consideration the silver and antimony ornaments referable to the Italian Eneolithic, these materials are not widespread, but they can be useful to reconstruct possible routes of exchange and contact between the Italian Eneolithic cultures. of metal ornaments: in northern Italy and in Sardinia there are also copper objects like perforated foils, hook spirals and cylindrical beads [..] In the Roman necropolis some silver artifacts have come to light: it is about five necklace beads of various shapes and sizes and a T-shaped pin head, unique in this area, but comparable with that of Remedello and with the specimens in the bone of the Gaudo The recent analysis of the vague of the Roman necropolis allowed to identify the origin of the silver and the chlorite they are composed of: the first comes from the Sulcis Iglesiente mining area in Sardinia, the second one comes from Liguria (Carboni et alii in press). " From: MATTEO ASPESI Silver and antimony ornaments in the Italian Eneolithic panorama, In Book of Abstract of the V Annual Meeting of Prehistory and Protohistory "Precious, semiprecious and unusual materials in the Copper Age and the Italian Bronze Age" (29 May 2018, Aula Nievo - Palazzo Bo), pp. 9-10

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