The article presents a study of copper ore from western Ukraine aimed at explanation ofpossibilities of their exploitation for the color metallurgy development during the period of Tripolyeculture. It gives a short characteristics of lithological, mineralogical, and geochemical composition ofcopper ores from the Dneper area, Volhynia, and the Carpathians plateau. It further presents results ofchemical and spectral analysis of ore-bearing rocks, evaluation of its current state and potential possibilitiesof their use in the past.Based upon a statement that metal objects produced during the existence of the Tripolye culturewere made of pure copper two methods of its procurement were considered: (a) from a virgin copper,and (b) from oxygenated copper ore of sedimentary origin in which a small number of admixtures wasnoticed.The paper shows the potential of studies aimed at explanation of the correlation between contemporaryand past copper ores and some copper goods from archaeological sites of the Tarnopol region.
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