Archaeometallurgy in Global Perspective [electronic resource] : Methods and Syntheses / edited by Benjamin W. Roberts, Christopher P. Thornton.

Chapter 1: Introduction. Benjamin W. Roberts and Christopher P. Thornton -- Chapter 2: From Ores to Metals. David Killick -- Chapter 3: Metals. Michael Notis -- Chapter 4: Metallography and Microstructure of Metallic Artefacts. David A. Scott -- Chapter 5: The Investigation of Archaeometallurgical Slag. Andreas Hauptmann -- Chapter 6: Technical Ceramics. Marcos Martinón-Torres and Thilo Rehren -- Chapter 7: Methods of Mining Archaeology (Montanarchäologie). Thomas Stöllner -- Chapter 8: Experimental Archaeometallurgy. Julia Heeb and Barbara Ottaway -- Chapter 9: Ethnoarchaeological and Historical Methods. Louise Iles and S. Terry Childs -- Chapter 10: Chemical and Isotopic Studies of Ancient Metals. A. Mark Pollard and Peter Bray -- Chapter 11: Provenance Determination of Archaeological Metal Objects. Ernst Pernicka -- Chapter 12: A Conservator's Perspective on Ancient Metallurgy. Deborah Schorsch -- Chapter 13: Copper Working Technologies, Context of Use, and Social Complexity in the Eastern Woodlands of Native North America. Kathleen L. Ehrhardt -- Chapter 14: West Mexican Metallurgy: Revisited and Revised. Dorothy Hosler -- Chapter 15: Andean Metallurgy in Prehistory. Heather Lechtman -- Chapter 16: Production Networks and Consumer Choice in the Earliest Metal of Western Europe. Benjamin W. Roberts -- Chapter 17: Aspects of Metalworking and Society from the Black Sea to the Baltic Sea during the 5th-2nd Millennium BC. Tobias L Kienlin -- Chapter 18: Early Metallurgy in the Central Mediterranean. Andrea Dolfini -- Chapter 19: Cairo to Cape: The Spread of Metallurgy through Eastern and Southern Africa. David Killick -- Chapter 20: Organization and Specialization of Early Mining and Metal Technologies in Anatolia. Joseph W. Lehner and K. Aslihan Yener -- Chapter 21: Who Dunnit? New Clues Concerning the Development of Chalcolithic Metal Technology in the Southern Levant. Jonathan Golden -- Chapter 22: Ancient Metallurgy in the Caucasus from the 6th to the 3rd Millennium BCE. Antoine Courcier -- Chapter 23: The Emergence of Complex Metallurgy on the Iranian Plateau. Christopher P. Thornton -- Chapter 24: Production and Consumption of Copper-base Metals in the Indus Civilization. Brett C. Hoffman and Heather M.-L. Miller -- Chapter 25: Early Metal in South India: Copper and Iron in Megalithic Contexts. Praveena Gullapalli -- Chapter 26: Metals, Society and Economy in the Late Prehistoric Eurasian Steppe. Roger Doonan, Bryan Hanks, Dmitry Zdanovich, Elena Kupriyanova, Derek Pitman, Natal'ya Batanina and James Johnson -- Chapter 27: Metallurgy in Ancient Eastern Asia: Retrospect and Prospects. Katheryn M. Linduff and Jianjun Mei -- Chapter 28: The Transmission of Early Bronze Technology to Thailand: New Perspectives. Joyce C. White and Elizabeth G. Hamilton.