摘要
黄金系人类较早利用的金属之一。它的出现稍迟于红铜和青铜。但早于白银。在金属中质料最为柔软。黄金比重19．32。硬度2．5-3，熔点1063C。因此它不像铜、铁那样，能够制造实用的兵器或工具。由于它本身的美观珍贵，光泽耐久不变，具有延展的特性，并易于加工。所以从上古以来便在世界范围内被视作神秘的贵重物品，主要用在装饰方面，或作为财富、权力的象征以及货币流通的价值尺度。
Gold is one of the metals man began to use in early times. Thanks to its beauty, preciousness, durable luster, extensibility and relatively great workability, it was taken as a mysterious valuable substance all over the world from remote antiquity and used to make ornaments, to symbolize wealth and power or to serve for the measure of currency value.
出处
《考古学报》
CSSCI
北大核心
2008年第3期291-310,I0001-I0002,共22页
Acta Archaeologica Sinica
