Elin Figueiredo

CENIMAT - FCT / UNL

Researcher

PhD in Conservation Science (2010, UNL, Lisbon, Portugal), Post-Graduation in Pre-History and Archaeology (2006, FL-UL, Lisbon, Portugal), 5 year degree in Conservation and Restoration (2004, FCT-UNL, Caparica, Portugal).
Main interests are on ancient metal studies, achaeometallurgy, experimental metallurgy and conservation science. Has published works on copper based metallurgy from Chalcolithic, Bronze Age and Iron Age from Portuguese archaeological sites and on the long term corrosion of copper base alloys such as bronze.
The most recent works focus on the study of tin sources and production for ancient bronze metallurgy. 
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