Reconstructing the geological provenance and long-distance movement of rectangular, fishtail, and croisette copper ingots in Iron Age Zambia and Zimbabwe

• Jay Stephens ,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Software, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft

  * E-mail: jas5@arizona.edu

  Affiliations School of Anthropology, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, United States of America, Archaeometry Laboratory, Research Reactor Center, University of Missouri, Columbia, MO, United States of America

  https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1299-3946

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• David Killick,

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Project administration, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation School of Anthropology, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, United States of America

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• Shadreck Chirikure

  Roles Resources, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations School of Archaeology, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom, Department of Archaeology, University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa

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