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Import or Imitation? Late Medieval Graphite Ware and Its Influence in Central Transdanubia (Hungary)
Graphite ware was a common pottery type used in the western Danube Region during the Middle Ages. This was used in large quantities in the medieval...
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Forging a New World Order? Interdisciplinary Perspectives on the Management of Metalworking and Ideological Change in the Late Bronze Age Carpathian Basin
The Carpathian Basin was a highly influential centre of metalworking in the 2nd mil. BC. Nevertheless, despite the abundance of metal objects from...
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Reading the archaeometallurgical findings of Yodhawewa site, Sri Lanka: contextualizing with South Asian metal history
This study aimed to provide a chronological interpretation of the Yodhawewa settlement and interpret metalworking activities based on artifacts...
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Copper Metallurgy in the Andes
Like the Eastern Hemisphere, the cultures of the Americas developed a rich tradition of metallurgy millennia ago. The Andes were an independent...
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Unearthing Craft Activities in the North Aegean: The Karabournaki Settlement
The North Aegean was a region densely inhabited already in the Iron Age. Archaeological research has brought to light an abundance of material...
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The Origin of Glass and the First Glass Industries
Glass is unique among the archaeological materials of the Late Bronze Age, in its production, use and social meaning. Emerging as a regularly...
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Metallurgical Slag from Excavations of the Archaeological Site of the Kobylikha Settlement (The Nenets Autonomous Area)
The results of the study of slags from the excavations of the Kobylikha archaeological site in 2019 and 2022 (the Nenets Autonomous Area) are...
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Glass in Indian Archaeology, Ancient Literature, Historical Records and Colonial Accounts
Archaeological remains of glass in India are visible majorly in the form of beads and bangles and rarely in other forms. Ancient Indian texts refer...
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Early Types of Cypriot Bronze Age Metal Ingots
It is now well known, thanks to Lead Isotope Analysis, that in the Late Bronze Age Cypriot copper was traded in the form of oxhide and discoid,...
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Copper and Bronze Tools and Weapons of the Petrovka Culture of the Southern Trans-Urals and the Middle Tobol Basin: Alloys, Historical and Metallurgical Relations
The results of an analytical study of 106 metal tools and 70 ingots of the Petrovka culture of the Southern Trans-Urals and the Middle Tobol Basin...
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Traditional Bead and Bangle Crafts in India
Production of glass was one of the most advanced technical developments of the primeval world. It required knowledge of furnace building, glass...
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Crafting Swahili Beads: Exploring a New Glass Bead Assemblage from Northern Zanzibar, Tanzania
This article presents the discovery and analysis of a new glass bead assemblage from the Swahili site of Mkokotoni, an early second millennium AD...
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Glass in the Middle East and Western Europe at the End of the First Millennium CE, Transition from Natron to Plant Ash Soda or Forest Glasses
The production of natron glass started at the beginning of the first millennium BCE and prevailed in the Mediterranean world for almost two thousand...
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Bronze Metallurgy in Southeast Asia with Particular Reference to Northeast Thailand
The long-awaited definitive chronology for the period from the initial use of bronze metallurgy to the end of the Iron Age on the Khorat Plateau of...
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Microbiological characteristics of bread dough and nutritional quality of “Tabnen-naow,” ethnic artisan bread in Burkina Faso
This study aimed to evaluate the microbiological characteristics of bread dough and the nutritional quality of “ Tabnen-naow ,” an ethnic artisan bread...
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Interrelations in Glass and Glazing Technologies in Mughal Tilework
Glazed tiles were extensively used as a means of architectural embellishment in the medieval to pre-modern Islamic world. The Mughals employed them...
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The Making of Bikini Glass in Bida, Nigeria: Ethnography, Chemical Composition, and Archaeology
This paper discusses the process, prospects, and challenges of making bikini glass in Bida (Nupeland), central Nigeria. The Masagá glassmakers of...
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Introduction
Placemaking of public spaces is a phenomenon that has arisen in contemporary urban cities lately, specifically, those involved in art and cultural...
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Climate and Archetype: Vernacular House-Forms as Tropical Urban Ideations
The rise of the sustainable agenda must face the reality of tropical regions, which must grow their own archetypes and models of sustainable...