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 as...
L'Erma di Bretschneider, 2006. — 245 p. — (Studia archaeologica 150). L. Chiarantini, S. Guideri, M. Benvenuti - La produzione di rame, ferro e bronzo a Populonia in epoca etrusca: nuove acquisizioni C. Giardino - Miniere e metallurgia sui Monti della Tolfa. Una attività plurimillenaria M. Cavallini - Il ferro nell' Etruria pontificia M. L. Arancio, A. Brotzu, M. Cavallini, A....
Cambridge University Press, 1992. — xxiii + 335 p. One of the leading Soviet archaeologists describes the development of ancient mining and metallurgy in the northern half of Eurasia. While the first traces of metallurgical activity date from between the seventh and the sixth millennium BC, significant mining developed only in the fifth millennium BC, in the northern Balkans...
EDP Sciences, 2014. — 224 p. Steels are a class of materials with multiple and complicated transformations; this is true even for steels of the basic cutlery industry. A damascus steel is a fascinating subject to study, rich in multiple facets, that appears in a fi rst approach as a composite material artistically exploited. Damacus steel was developed in the first millennium...
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....
Charles Griffin & Co, 1927. — 238 p. The work of ancient people on the metals known to them h^is been always of great interest to metallurgists, and the details of Ancient Egyptian Metallurgy given in this book are commended with confidence to students, whilst archaeologists will find many enriching suggestions. Sources of Metals to the Ancient Egyptians (a) Outline of Egyptian...
Austrian Academy of Sciences, 2024. — 234 p. — (Oriental and European Archaeology (OREA) 32). Proceedings of the Workshop “UK-Gespräche” at the Austrian Academy of Sciences: 20th Anniversary of the Archaeometallurgical Laboratory at VIAS, University of Vienna, May 2019 The volume presented here contains contributions from the international workshop “Bronze Age Metallurgy....
Birlinn, 2023. — 288 p. The story of the Bamburgh Sword – one of the finest swords ever forged. In 2000, archaeologist Paul Gething rediscovered a sword. An unprepossessing length of rusty metal, it had been left in a suitcase for thirty years. But Paul had a suspicion that the sword had more to tell than appeared, so he sent it for specialist tests. When the results came back,...
Birlinn, 2023. — 288 p. The story of the Bamburgh Sword – one of the finest swords ever forged. In 2000, archaeologist Paul Gething rediscovered a sword. An unprepossessing length of rusty metal, it had been left in a suitcase for thirty years. But Paul had a suspicion that the sword had more to tell than appeared, so he sent it for specialist tests. When the results came back,...
Archaeopress Publishing Ltd., 2019. — 200 p. — (The Archaeological Heritage of Oman 2). The development of a prehistoric civilization in the Sultanate of Oman was strongly connected with the exploitation and the use of copper. The Oman Peninsula has several rich copper ore deposits that have been exploited since prehistoric times. The earliest evidence of metallurgical...
Cham: Springer, 2021. — 605 p. This book successfully connects archaeology and archaeometallurgy with geoscience and metallurgy. It addresses topics concerning ore deposits, archaeological field evidence of early metal production, and basic chemical-physical principles, as well as experimental ethnographic works on a low handicraft base and artisanal metal production to help...
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...
Institute of Archaeology of the ASCR, 2011. — 332 p. Within this volume, several authors from both western and eastern Europe introduces in eighteen contributions recent and/or summarizing results of archaeological and scientific research into the making and working of iron in antiquity and more recent periods, along with a number of related issues. The book is divided into...
Lund University Publications, 2020. — 220 p. The book has three contributions from Torun Zachrisson, Charlotte Hedenstierna-Jonson och Daniel Sahlén, who are connected to The Department of Archaeology and Classical Studies. The Viking Age and the Early Middle Ages have been considered the period when Scandinavian people emerged on the global stage. The Scandinavians and their...
A conference in honour of James D. Muhly (Nicosia, 10th–11th October 2009). — Oxford, UK: Oxbow Books, 2012. — 258 pp. — 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...
Bonn: R. Habelt, 2009. — 468 pp. — (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....
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,...
Archaeopress, 2020. — 200 p. — (Archaeopress Egyptology 31). The Egyptian Museum of the University of Leipzig has the largest university collection of ancient Egyptian artefacts in Germany. It includes important objects from the excavations of the most prolific excavator among the museum’s curators, Georg Steindorff, at the sites of Abusir, Aniba, and Giza, complemented by...
Archaeopress, 2016. — 313 p. — (Archaeopress Egyptology 14). The Old Kingdom of Egypt (Dynasties 4–6, c. 2600–2180 BC) is famous as a period of the builders of the largest Egyptian pyramids. It is generally accepted that the evidence on the use of copper alloy tools from this era is meagre. Martin Odler gathers the textual, iconographic and palaeographic evidence and examines...
Paris: Picard, 2006. — 446 p. La société byzantine était animée d’une profonde religiosité, dont témoignent ses productions artistiques. On ne retient habituellement de ce phénomène que la dévotion aux icônes. Mais la période qui succède à la crise iconoclaste du ixe siècle a également été marquée par un extraordinaire essor du culte des reliques. Témoignages éloquents de cette...
Praha: Archeologický ústav AVČR, 2006. — 384 p. The volume offers a synthesis of knowledge concerning the early European blacksmith´s craft as gained by interdisciplinary approach, from the point of view of history, archaeology and material science of metals. The beginnings of iron, tools, forging operations, smithies and their equipment as well as influence of technical metal...
Edited by Miljana Radivojević, Benjamin Roberts, Miroslav Marić, Julka Kuzmanović-Cvetković, Thilo Rehren. — Oxford: Archaeopress, 2021. — 698 p., 340 fig.; 70 tables (colour throughout). — ISBN 978-1-80327-042-5. The Rise of Metallurgy in Eurasia is a landmark study in the origins of metallurgy. The project aimed to trace the invention and innovation of metallurgy in the...
New York: Springer, 2014. — 868 pp. — 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...
The Getty Conservation Institute, The J. Paul Getty Trust, 1991. — 155 р. 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...
Oxford University Press, 1995. — 316 p. The sixteen essays in this volume reflect a wide range of research concerning methods for metals conservation, particularly in respect to ancient and historic objects. The variety of issues discussed includes considerations in the cleaning of ancient bronze vessels; the processes involved in bronze casting, finishing, patination, and...
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....
Новосибирск: ИАЭТ СО РАН, 2005. — 88 с. Роль серебра для развития любой цивилизации весьма существенна. Выделение этого металла из природных сплавов положило начало эпохе палеометаллов, оставившей на территории Сибири целый ряд ярких материальных свидетельств. Авторами книги предпринята попытка комплексного исследования археологических материалов для реконструкции исторической...
Учебное пособие. — Томск: Томский государственный университет, 2015. — 44 с. В раскопе могут быть открыты объекты древней металлургии, требующие совершенно особой полевой методики. Таким образом, владеть методами исследования черной металлургии должен любой будущий археолог. Целью данного пособия является краткий обзор существующих полевых и лабораторных методик исследования...
СПб.: Невские Берега, 2024. — 36 с. Препринт статьи. Приведены результаты предварительной обработки более тысячи анализов содержаний химических элементов в древних бронзах (преимущественно скифского времени), на широкий спектр элементов (50 шт), в том числе – 12-ти основных (более 100 определений): Ag, As, Au, Bi, Co, Cu, Fe, Ni, Pb, Sb, Sn, Zn. Статистика выполнена по...
М.: Наука, 1983. — 197 с. Работа посвящена кругу лексики, которая связана с археологической и исторической сторонами этногенеза славянских и балканских народов. Дан общий обзор проблематики истории металлургии в связи с историей названий разных типов металлов, сравнительный очерк культурной истории славянских, балтийских и древне-балканских названий металлов, сопоставление...
М.: Наука, 1983. — 197 с. Работа посвящена кругу лексики, которая связана с археологической и исторической сторонами этногенеза славянских и балканских народов. Дан общий обзор проблематики истории металлургии в связи с историей названий разных типов металлов, сравнительный очерк культурной истории славянских, балтийских и древне-балканских названий металлов, сопоставление...
Ермолаева А.С. и др. Коллективная монография. — Алматы: Институт археологии им. А.Х. Маргулана, 2020. — 240 с. — ISBN 978-601-7106-47-8. Коллективная монография представляет результаты комплексного исследования производственно-жилищных комплексов с почти полным циклом металлопроизводства на поселении Талдысай, расположенном в Жезказган-Улытауском горно-металлургическом центре...
Киев, 1992. Учебно-методическое пособие рассмотрено и утверждено Научно-методическим советом Национального музея истории Украины. Настоящее методическое пособие рассчитано на работников музеев, начинающих реставраторов, археологов, студентов реставрационных отделений, коллекционеров. В пособии кратко изложены основные свойства металлов, наиболее часто применяемых человеком с...
Коллектив авторов: Н.Н. Терехова, Л.С. Розанова, В.И. Завьялов, М.М. Толмачева. — М.: Металлургия, 1997. — 318 с. — ISBN: 5-229-01231-5 Книга написана учениками Б.А. Колчина — исследователя древнерусского кузнечества, впервые показавшего в своих работах возможность получения широких исторических выводов на основе использования металлографического анализа при изучении массовых...
М.: Металлургия, 1997. — 319 с. — ISBN: 5-229-01231-5. Книга написана учениками Б.А. Колчина — исследователя древнерусского кузнечества, впервые показавшего в своих работах возможность получения широких исторических выводов на основе использования металлографического анализа при изучении массовых серий древних железных предметов. После выхода работ Б.А. Колчина прошло более 40...
София: Болгарская академия наук, 1978. — 387 с. (Отсутствуют с. 332-385). "В 1969 году по инициативе проф Н. Я. Мерперта — одного из руководителей болгаро-советской археологической экспедиции, ее тематика была расширена за счет изучения историко-металлургических проблем эпохи меди и бронзы. В связи с таким решением был создан специальный отряд, который проводил исследования на...
София: Болгарская академия наук, 1978. — 387 с. (Отсутствуют с. 332-385). "В 1969 году по инициативе проф Н. Я. Мерперта — одного из руководителей болгаро-советской археологической экспедиции, ее тематика была расширена за счет изучения историко-металлургических проблем эпохи меди и бронзы. В связи с таким решением был создан специальный отряд, который проводил исследования на...
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