Laboratory for Isotope Analysis

Contact Person

Dr. Michael Brauns
Curt-Engelhorn-Centre Archaeometry gGmbH
D5, Museum Weltkulturen
68159 Mannheim
Phone +49 621 29-38946
michael.brauns@cez-archaeometrie.de
http://www.cez-archaeometrie.de/?lang=en

Own homepage

http://www.cez-archaeometrie.de/?page_id=150

Equipment

Finnigan MAT 261 NTIMS

Method

Determination of Osmium isotope ratios which are used in several geochemical problems (e.g. Platinum-Osmium as well as Rhenium-Osmium dating of ore or rocks). Furthermore, there is also a high potential of this geochemical tracer in archaeology, in particular in determining the region from which metal artefacts originate.

Publication (Selection)

Woodhead, J. Brauns, M. 2004: Current limitations to the understanding of Re-Os behaviour in subduction systems, with an example from New Britain. EPSL Earth and Planetary Science Letters 7027, 1-15.

Brauns, M., Schwab, R., Gassmann, G., Wieland, G., Pernicka, E. 2013: Provenance of Iron Age iron in southern Germany: a new approach. Journal of Archaeological Science 40, 841-849.