This paper reviews the research into the methodology of lead isotope provenance studies
carried out at the University of Oxford between 1975 and 2002, at first in the Department of …

Following animated discussions in the 1990–2010 period concerning the validity and
potential application of Pb isotope data to yield information on ancient metallurgy, recently …

Bronze is the defining metal of the European Bronze Age and has been at the center of
archaeological and science-based research for well over a century. Archaeometallurgical …

The first part of this research published previously proved without doubt that the metals
dated to the Nordic Bronze Age found in Sweden were not smelted from the local copper …

This volume examines prehistoric copper mining in Europe, from the first use of the metal
eight thousand years ago in the Balkans to its widespread adoption during the Bronze Age …

Abstract European Bronze Age swords had high functional and symbolic value, and
therefore they are an interesting case for approaching questions of provenance and trade in …

The research team of this new project has begun the precision radiocarbon dating of the
super-important Copper Age cemetery at Varna. These first dates show the cemetery in use …

This paper discusses the invention of gold metallurgy within the Southeast European
Chalcolithic on the basis of newly investigated gold objects from the Varna I cemetery (4550 …

25 years after the discovery in the Ötztal Italian Alps, the 5,300-year-old mummy keeps
providing key information on human biological and medical conditions, aspects of everyday …

During the past few decades, evidence for the ancient smelting of copper has been
discovered in areas isolated from one another. In most of them, the beginning of metallurgy …