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Archaeometallurgy in Global Perspective Benjamin W. Roberts • Christopher P. Thornton Editors Archaeometallurgy in Global Perspective Methods and Syntheses 2123 Editors BenjaminW.Roberts ChristopherP.Thornton DepartmentofArchaeology AsianSection DurhamUniversity UniversityofPennsylvaniaMuseum Durham ofArchaeology&Anthropology UnitedKingdom Philadelphia Pennsylvania USA ISBN978-1-4614-9016-6 ISBN978-1-4614-9017-3(eBook) DOI10.1007/978-1-4614-9017-3 SpringerNewYorkHeidelbergDordrechtLondon LibraryofCongressControlNumber:2013954783 © SpringerScience+BusinessMediaNewYork2014 Thisworkissubjecttocopyright.AllrightsarereservedbythePublisher,whetherthewholeorpartofthe materialisconcerned,specificallytherightsoftranslation,reprinting,reuseofillustrations,recitation, broadcasting,reproductiononmicrofilmsorinanyotherphysicalway,andtransmissionorinformation storageandretrieval,electronicadaptation,computersoftware,orbysimilarordissimilarmethodology nowknownorhereafterdeveloped.Exemptedfromthislegalreservationarebriefexcerptsinconnection withreviewsorscholarlyanalysisormaterialsuppliedspecificallyforthepurposeofbeingenteredand executed on a computer system, for exclusive use by the purchaser of the work. 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Printedonacid-freepaper SpringerispartofSpringerScience+BusinessMedia(www.springer.com) Contents 1 Introduction................................................... 1 ChristopherP.ThorntonandBenjaminW.Roberts 2 FromOrestoMetals ........................................... 11 DavidKillick 3 Metals ........................................................ 47 MichaelR.Notis 4 MetallographyandMicrostructureofMetallicArtifacts ............ 67 DavidA.Scott 5 TheInvestigationofArchaeometallurgicalSlag.................... 91 AndreasHauptmann 6 TechnicalCeramics............................................. 107 MarcosMartinón-TorresandThiloRehren 7 MethodsofMiningArchaeology(Montanarchäologie).............. 133 ThomasR.Stöllner 8 ExperimentalArchaeometallurgy ................................ 161 JuliaHeebandBarbaraS.Ottaway 9 EthnoarchaeologicalandHistoricalMethods...................... 193 LouiseIlesandS.TerryChilds 10 ChemicalandIsotopicStudiesofAncientMetals .................. 217 A.MarkPollardandPeterBray 11 ProvenanceDeterminationofArchaeologicalMetalObjects......... 239 ErnstPernicka v vi Contents 12 AConservator’sPerspectiveonAncientMetallurgy ................ 269 DeborahSchorsch 13 CopperWorkingTechnologies,ContextsofUse,andSocial ComplexityintheEasternWoodlandsofNativeNorthAmerica ..... 303 KathleenL.Ehrhardt 14 MesoamericanMetallurgy:thePerspectivefromtheWest .......... 329 DorothyHosler 15 AndeanMetallurgyinPrehistory ................................ 361 HeatherLechtman 16 ProductionNetworksandConsumerChoiceintheEarliestMetal ofWesternEurope ............................................. 423 BenjaminW.Roberts 17 AspectsofMetalworkingandSocietyfromtheBlackSeatotheBaltic SeafromtheFifthtotheSecondMillenniumBC .................. 447 TobiasL.Kienlin 18 EarlyMetallurgyintheCentralMediterranean ................... 473 AndreaDolfini 19 CairotoCape:TheSpreadofMetallurgythroughEastern andSouthernAfrica............................................ 507 DavidKillick 20 OrganizationandSpecializationofEarlyMiningandMetal TechnologiesinAnatolia ........................................ 529 JosephW.LehnerandK.AslıhanYener 21 WhoDunnit?NewCluesConcerningtheDevelopmentofChalcolithic MetalTechnologyintheSouthernLevant......................... 559 JonathanGolden 22 Ancient Metallurgy in the Caucasus From the Sixth to theThird MillenniumBCE............................................... 579 AntoineCourcier 23 TheEmergenceofComplexMetallurgyontheIranianPlateau...... 665 ChristopherP.Thornton 24 Production and Consumption of Copper-Base Metals in the Indus Civilization.................................................... 697 BrettC.HoffmanandHeatherM.-L.Miller Contents vii 25 EarlyMetalinSouthIndia:CopperandIroninMegalithicContexts 729 PraveenaGullapalli 26 Metals,Society,andEconomyintheLatePrehistoric EurasianSteppe ............................................... 755 RogerDoonan,BryanHanks,DmitryZdanovich,ElenaKupriyanova, DerekPitman,Natal’yaBataninaandJamesJohnson 27 MetallurgyinAncientEasternAsia:RetrospectandProspects ...... 785 KatherynM.LinduffandJianjunMei 28 TheTransmissionofEarlyBronzeTechnologytoThailand: NewPerspectives............................................... 805 JoyceC.WhiteandElizabethG.Hamilton Index ............................................................ 853 Contributors Natal’yaBatanina Reserve“Arkaim”,Chelyabinsk,Russia PeterBray ResearchLaboratoryforArchaeologyandtheHistoryofArt,University ofOxford,Oxford,UK S.TerryChilds DepartmentoftheInterior,Washington,USA AntoineCourcier InstitutdeRecherchesurlesArchéoMATériaux,Belfort,France AndreaDolfini SchoolofHistory,ClassicsandArchaeology,NewcastleUniversity, NewcastleuponTyne,UnitedKingdom RogerDoonan DepartmentofArchaeology,UniversityofSheffield,Sheffield,UK Kathleen L. Ehrhardt Research and Collection Center, Illinois State Museum, Springfield,USA JonathanGolden DepartmentsofComparativeReligionandAnthropology,Drew University,Madison,USA Praveena Gullapalli Anthropology Department, Rhode Island College, Provi- dence,USA ElizabethG.Hamilton UniversityofPennsylvaniaMuseum,Philadelphia,USA Bryan Hanks Department ofAnthropology, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, USA AndreasHauptmann GermanMiningMuseum,Bochum,Germany Julia Heeb Department of Archaeology, University of Exeter, Devon, United Kingdom BrettC.Hoffman DepartmentofAnthropology,UniversityofWisconsin-Madison, Madison,USA DorothyHosler DepartmentofMaterialsScienceandEngineering,Massachusetts InstituteofTechnology,Cambridge,USA ix x Contributors LouiseIles UniversityofYork,DepartmentofArchaeology,York,UK JamesJohnson DepartmentofAnthropology,UniversityofPittsburgh,Pittsburgh, USA TobiasL.Kienlin InstitutfürUr-undFrühgeschichte,UniversitätzuKöln,Köln, Germany DavidKillick DepartmentofAnthropology,UniversityofArizona,Tucson,USA ElenaKupriyanova ScientificandEducationalCentreforResearchontheProb- lemsofNatureandMan,ChelyabinskStateUniversity,Russia Heather Lechtman Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Mas- sachusettsInstituteofTechnology,Cambridge,USA JosephW.Lehner CotsenInstituteofArchaeology,UniversityofCalifornia,Los Angeles,USA Katheryn M. Linduff Department of Art History, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh,USA Marcos Martinón-Torres Institute of Archaeology, University College London, London,UK JianjunMei InstituteofHistoricalMetallurgyandMaterials,UniversityofScience andTechnologyBeijing,Beijing,People’sRepublicofChina TheNeedhamResearchInstitute,Cambridge,UK Heather M.-L. Miller Anthropology Department, University ofToronto, Missis- sauga,Canada Michael R. Notis Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Whitaker Laboratory,LehighUniversity,Bethlehem,USA Barbara S. Ottaway Department of Archaeology, University of Exeter, Devon, UnitedKingdom ErnstPernicka InstitutfürUr-undFrühgeschichteundArchäologiedesMittelal- ters,AbteilungfürJüngereUrgeschichteundFrühgeschichte, SchloßHohentübin- gen,Eberhard-Karls-UniversitätTübingen,Tübingen,Germany DerekPitman DepartmentofArchaeology,UniversityofSheffield,Sheffield,UK A. Mark Pollard Research Laboratory for Archaeology and the History of Art, UniversityofOxford,Oxford,UK ThiloRehren UCLQatar,UniversityCollegeLondon,Doha,Qatar BenjaminW.Roberts DepartmentofArchaeology,Durham,UK Deborah Schorsch Sherman Fairchild Center for Objects Conservation, The MetropolitanMuseumofArt,NewYork,UnitedStatesofAmerica Contributors xi David A. Scott Cotsen Institute of Archaeology, University of California Los Angeles,LosAngeles,USA ThomasR.Stöllner Ruhr-Universität,Bochum,Germany DeutschesBergbau-MuseumBochum,Bochum,Germany Christopher P. Thornton Asian Section, University of Pennsylvania Museum, Philadelphia,USA JoyceC.White AsianSection,UniversityofPennsylvaniaMuseum,Philadelphia, USA K. Aslıhan Yener The Department of Archaeology and History of Art, Koç University,Sariyer,Turkey DmitryZdanovich ScientificandEducationalCentreforResearchontheProblems ofNatureandMan,ChelyabinskStateUniversity,Russia
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