Oxbow Books, 2020. — 290 p. — (Prehistoric Society Research Paper 11). The Social Context of Technology explores non-ferrous metalworking in Britain and Ireland during the Bronze and Iron Ages (c. 2500 BC to 1st century AD). Bronze-working dominates the evidence, though the crafting of other non-ferrous metals – including gold, silver, tin, and lead – is also considered....
In: S. Burmeister, S. Hansen, M. Kunst, N. Muller-Scheel (eds.). Metal Matters Innovative Technologies and Social Change in Prehistory and Antiquity. Menschen — Kulturen — Traditionen. — Forschungs Cluster 2. — Rahden; Westf.: Leidorf, 2013. — Bd. 12. — Р. 155 — 158. It is a widespread opinion that the discovery, exploitation and processing of metal count as the socially most...
Proceedings of the NATO Advanced Research Workshop on Prehistoric Gold in Europe (Seeon, Germany; September 27 - October 1, 1993). — Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1995. — x + 618 p. — (NATO ASI Series 280). — ISBN: 978-90-481-4500-3; ISBN: 978-94-015-1292-3 (eBook). Interest in the study of early European cultures is growing. These cultures have left us objects made of gold,...
In: Martinez Maria Pilar Prieto, Salanova Laure (eds.) The Bell beaker transition in Europe: mobility and local evolution during the 3rd millennium BC. — Oxbow Book, 2015. — p. 140-149. This paper deals with goldworking technology, more precisely with the manufacturing processes and tools used in Atlantic Europe during the Copper Age and the beginning of the Early Bronze Age....
Antiquity. — 1999. — 73 (282). — p. 897–903. Recent excavations at the Neolithic site of Cerro Virtud (Almeria, southeast Spain) have produced new information about the development of metallurgy that may change ongoing research not only in the Iberian Peninsula but also in the rest of western Europe. The discovery of metallurgy in this region in the first half of the 5th...
Leiden: E.J. Brill, 1950. — 489 p. "The main purpose of this book was to bring the archaeologist and the technologist in contact with each others results, to help them over the gulf that still separates them from cooperating in the study of a fascinating aspect of ancient civilisation." A note to the reader. Synopsis of early metallurgy. Short historical survey of early mining....
Science. — 1973. — Vol. 182, No 4115. — p. 875–887. It now seems that a complex technical logic rather than mere happenstance governed man's first ventures into the earth's crust for the diverse metallic and nonmetallic minerals scattered there. This conclusion has come to me and a number of fellow workers in ancient metallurgy as we have asked how men in the Neolithic made the...
Science. — 1964. — Vol. 146, Issue 3649. — p. 1257–1267. + Corrections (Vol. 146, Issue 3652, p. 1664). Some 40 years ago the British Association for the Advancement of Science elected to investigate scientifically the composition and geographic origin of metals used in early artifacts. Similar investigations were gradually initiated in other countries. Today spectrographic...
Antiquity. — 2009. — 83 (322). — p. 1012–1022. The authors reconsider the origins of metallurgy in the Old World and offer us a new model in which metallurgy began in c. eleventh/ninth millennium BC in Southwest Asia due to a desire to adorn the human body in life and death using colourful ores and naturally-occurring metals. In the early sixth millennium BC the techniques of...
HMS, 2008. — 94 p. The volume provides a research framework for archaeometallurgy in Britain, including a resource assessment, a research agenda and an outline research strategy. The first section identifies the nature of the resource. The evidence ranges in scale from landscapes and townscapes to sites and structures; it includes artefacts and residues from production as well...
Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg, 2007. — XII+388 p. — (Natural Science in Archaeology). — ISSN: 1613-9712; ISBN: 978-3-540-72237-3. The results presented in this book originate from field research carried out by the Deutsches Bergbau-Museum Bochum (hereafter called DBM) on the remains of early copper metallurgy in the area of Faynan, southern Jordan, between 1983 and 1993. It...
Bonn: R. Habelt, 2009. — 468 p. — (Universitätsforschungen zur prähistorischen Archäologie, Band 169). — ISBN: 978-3774936317. Ben Roberts – Tobias L. Kienlin. Foreword. Caroline Jackson. Of Barbara. Christian Strahm. Die Begegnung mit Barbara Ottaway: Erinnerungen an die Impulse für die frühen akademischen Studien. Publications of Barbara S. Ottaway. Metals and Societies....
New York: Springer, 2014. — 868 p. — ISBN: 978-1-4614-9016-6. The study of ancient metals in their social and cultural contexts has been a topic of considerable interest in archaeology and ancient history for decades, partly due to the modern dependence on technology and man-made materials. The formal study of Archaeometallurgy began in the 1970s-1980s, and has seen a recent...
A conference in honour of James D. Muhly (Nicosia, 10th–11th October 2009). — Oxford, UK: Oxbow Books, 2012. — 258 p. — ISBN: 978-1-84217-453-1. James D. Muhly is a distinguished scholar with a special interest in ancient metallurgy who has dedicated much of his research to Cypriot archaeology. His work on the metallurgy of ancient Cyprus endorses the true importance of the...
The Getty Conservation Institute, The J. Paul Getty Trust, 1991. — 155 p. This book provides an introduction to the structure and morphology of ancient and historic metallic materials. It deals extensively with many practical matters relating to the mounting, preparation, etching, polishing, and microscopy of metallic samples and includes an account of the way in which phase...