Stable lead isotope studies of Black Sea Anatolian ore sources and relatedBronze Age and Phrygian artefacts from nearby archaeological sites. Appendix: New Central Taurus ore data

The accumulated published database of stable lead isotope analyses of ore a nd slag specimens taken from Anatolian mining sites that parallel the Black Sea coast has been augmented with 22 additional analyses of such specimens carried out at the National Institute of Standards and Technology. Multiva riate statistical analysis has been used to divide this composite database into five separate ore source groups. Evidence that most of these ore sourc es were exploited for the production of metal artefacts during the Bronze A ge and Phrygian Period has been obtained by statistically comparing to tem the isotope ratios of 184 analysed artefacts from nine archaeological sites situated within a few hundred kilometres of these mining sites. Also, Appe ndix B contains 36 new isotope analyses of ore specimens from Central Tauru s mining sites that are compatible with and augment the four Central Taurus Ore Source Groups defined in Yener et al. (1991).