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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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Artificial Neural Network-Based Committee Machine for Predicting the Slag Quality of a Blast Furnace Fed with Metallurgical Coke
Blast furnace slag is a product obtained with the manufacture of cast iron. It is formed by the chemical combination of impurities from iron ore with...
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Chicumbane Connections: Lower Limpopo Valley During the First Millennium AD
The discussion of the transition to farming in southern Africa and the formation of Early Iron Age society, referred to in Mozambican archaeology as...
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Metallurgical Slags of the II Kuzminkovskoe Bronze Age Settlement (Southern Cis-Urals)
This paper presents data on the mineralogy and geochemical features of metallurgical slags of the II Kuzminkovskoe Bronze Age settlement in the...
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Results of Archaeometallographic Studies of Iron Items from Ancient Rus Settlements in the Moscow Region
This paper reports on the results of archaeometallographic studies of iron items from the Myakinino 1 and Myakinino 2 settlements located in the...
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Hala Sultan Tekke, Cyprus. Trade with Egypt in the Bronze Age
Thirteen seasons of Swedish excavations at the Bronze Age harbor city of Hala Sultan Tekke on the southern coast of Cyprus confirm far-reaching trade...
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Experimental Bloomery Iron Smelting in the Study of Iron Technology in the Southern Levant
Iron production is often considered one of humankind’s most significant technological advances. While the identification of ironworking remains has...
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Maps and Models: Applications of GIS and Image-Based Modeling to Field Archaeology in Faynan, Jordan
At the turn of the twenty-first century, project directors Tom Levy and Mohammad Najjar made the decision to move the Edom Lowlands Regional...
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Iron Age Copper Metallurgy in Southeast Arabia: A Comparative Perspective
From the southern Levant to southeast Arabia, new technologies and social networks shaped metal production and trade in a variety of important ways....
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The innovation of iron and the **ongnu – a case study from Central Mongolia
This article presents the oldest iron smelting furnaces of the **ongnu Empire period in central Mongolia and argues that a significant smelting...
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A Social Archaeometallurgy of Bronze Age Cyprus
As a major producer of copper throughout the Bronze Age (ca. 2400–1100 BC), the island of Cyprus assumed a key role in the social and economic...
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Glazed Steatite and Faience Technology at Harappa, Pakistan (>3700–1900 BCE): Technological and Experimental Studies of Production and Variation
Excavations at the site of Harappa, Pakistan, have revealed important archaeological evidence for the development of glazed steatite and faience...
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Copper Trade Networks from the Arabah: Re-assessing the Impact on Early Iron Age Moab
Substantial archaeological research has identified the significance and wide-ranging implications of large-scale copper extraction and refining in...
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Uncertainties in Archaeointensity Research: Implications for the Levantine Archaeomagnetic Curve
Archaeomagnetism is the study of the magnetic properties of archaeological artifacts, in particular the magnetic field vectors trapped in objects...
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Archaeological Evidence of Casual Snacking and Resource Provisioning at Khirbat al-Jariya (ca. Eleventh to Tenth Centuries BCE), an Iron-Age Copper Production Site
In this chapter we present the results of a paleobotanical analysis of Khirbat al-Jariya, an Iron-Age (ca. eleventh to tenth centuries BCE) copper...
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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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A PCA-AHC Approach to Provenance Studies of Non-Ferrous Metals with Combined Pb Isotope and Chemistry Data
This paper discusses the applicability of the Principal Component Analysis-Agglomerative Hierarchical Clustering (PCA-AHC) approach to provenance...
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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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Science, Not Black Magic: Metal and Glass Production in Africa
Ongoing research continues to show that ancient Africans had their own versions of science that were embedded in local contexts. The apparent lack of...
