Temperature is a crucial factor influencing the effectiveness of metal smelting process. When
studied in historical slags it provides information on the evolution of smelting technologies …

Ten Early Bronze Age (BzA1, 2200–2000 BC) copper artefacts from the central Valais region
from Switzerland were studied for their elemental composition and lead isotope ratios. In …

In the paper, the results of an investigation into trace elements found in slag sulfides from 14
archaeological Bronze Age settlements of the Cis-Urals, Trans-Urals, and North and Central …

Production of wood charcoal in the Mediterranean countries started over two millennia ago
and vanished almost completely only in the last century. The legacy of this activity are …

Abstract The South Caucasus was a major center of metal production in the Late Bronze and
Early Iron Ages. Nowhere is this more clear than in the hills and mountains in the …

The mineralogy, petrography and major‐and trace‐element composition of iron ores from
Elba Island (Tuscany, Italy), one of the most important iron sources in the Mediterranean …

Archaeological investigation of the Na Slupi site in the central part of Prague (the capital of
the Czech Republic) and located in the vicinity of Vyšehrad Castle has demonstrated the …

Many of the arguments for how and why people began to use iron in Southwest Asia rely on
assumptions about the technology and relative organization of copper and iron smelting …

While the use of Egyptian blue (EB) as the earliest artificial pigment was common amongst
ancient Mediterranean cultures throughout Egypt, Mesopotamia, Greece, and the Roman …

Anthracological analysis has been carried out in three sites located on the Tyrrhenian coast
of central Italy (ancient northern Etruria: the castle of Donoratico, the town of Populonia and …