
Klaus Bente
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contents were determined by μ-X-ray diffraction and polyenes as red dyes were detected by μ-Raman spectroscopy. Additionally, the characteristic dense volume structure of Corallium rubrum were imaged by high-resolution μ-X-ray computed tomography. Strontium and boron isotopies were determined by mass spectrometry
being evident for a recent formation under marine conditions. These data are compared with coral artefacts from other Hanseatic cities proving their economic and cultural interdependencies. Related materials e.g. of Iron Age fibulae beads and from ethnographic objects from Africa, were additionally characterized for to differentiate red Corallium rubrum from anthropogenetic whitened or orginal white Corallium rubrum, neomorphic calcites from aragonite, as well as from chemical sedimentary calcites.
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CT) and X-ray diffraction (XRD) were used. The studiesrevealed, that the pearls of the fibula from Häni-chen consist of different materials with the follo-wing characteristics: hollow bodies, pearls with small pores without cracks but with metallic parti-cles, one medium pearl with small pores but wit-hout cracks and one big less dense biomineral pearl showing cracks and relicts of bioorganic skeletons.The obviously biogene pearls may be sugge- sted to be fossils deriving possibly from triatic se-diments in south Germany and not necessarily co-rals. Systematical studies on comparable fibulaare going to be carried out for to clarify the pro-venience of the materials.