Peculiarities of the composition of the golden and silver foil referred to the early iron age in Southern Siberia

The active use of foil and leaf gold and silver on the territory of Southern Siberia in the Iron Age makes it relevant to study the quality and makeup of these precious metals by modern scientific methods, including the energy-dispersive analysis. The composition examination of the metal contained in the samples of gilded and silvery things from the most representative monuments of various regions of Southern Siberia (Gorny Altai - Berel; the Upper Ob region - Berezovy Mys) and its comparison with the previously known data from Tuva, North-Western Altai allows identifying how long the technological tradition of processing nuggets of precious metals was preserved.