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AN OFFPRINT FROM
METALS, MINDS AND
MOBILITY
INTEGRATING SCIENTIFIC DATA WITH ARCHAEOLOGICAL THEORY
Edited by
XOSÉ-LOIS ARMADA, MERCEDES MURILLO-BARROSO
and
MIKE CHARLTON
Hardback Edition: ISBN 978-1-78570-905-0
Digital Edition: ISBN 978-1-78570-906-7 (epub)
METALS, MINDS AND MOBILITY
METALS, MINDS AND MOBILITY
INTEGRATING SCIENTIFIC DATA WITH ARCHAEOLOGICAL THEORY
Edited by
XOSÉ-LOIS ARMADA, MERCEDES MURILLO-BARROSO
and
MIKE CHARLTON
Oxford & Philadelphia
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Front cover: Spearheads from Alcaián deposit (Alcaián lake, Seavia, Coristanco, NW Spain) (Museum of San Antón, A Coruña, Spain)
(photo: ALBIMEH project); base image: Blue Marble: Next Generation, NASA Earth Observatory.
Back cover: A copper chisel from Sultana-Malu Rosu tell settlement (Romania) (photo: T. Ignat).
Contents
Contributors vii
1. Metals, minds and mobility: An introduction 1
Xosé-Lois Armada, Mercedes Murillo-Barroso and Mike Charlton
PART 1: TRANSMISSION OF METALLURGICAL TECHNOLOGIES, KNOWLEDGE AND IDEAS 17
2. On Europe, the Mediterranean and the myth of passive peripheries 19
Tobias L. Kienlin
3. Metal artefacts circulation in the Eneolithic period from southeastern Romania. A case study 37
Catalin Lazar, Adelina Darie, Gheorghe Niculescu and Migdonia Georgescu
4. On Quimbaya goldwork (Colombia), lost wax casting and ritual practice in America and Europe 53
Alicia Perea
5. Bronze production and tin provenance – new thoughts about the spread of metallurgical knowledge 67
Bianka Nessel, Gerhard Brügmann, Daniel Berger, Carolin Frank, Janeta Marahrens
and Ernst Pernicka
PART 2: PRESTIGE ECONOMIES AND EXCHANGE 85
6. Unequal exchange and the articulation of modes of re-production 87
Michael Rowlands
7. Why was (and is) silver sexy? Silver during the 4th–3rd millennia in the Near East and Mesopotamia 97
Susan Sherratt
8. Gold, conspicuous consumption and prestige – a relationship in need of review. The case of
Early and Middle Bronze Age Crete 107
Borja Legarra Herrero
PART 3: CIRCULATION OF METAL AS COMMODITIES 121
9. Biography, prosopography and the density of scientifi c data: Some arguments from the metallurgy of
Early Bronze Age Britain and Ireland 123
Peter Bray
10. The role of pre-Norsemen in trade and exchange of commodities in Bronze Age Europe 135
Lene Melheim, Johan Ling, Zofi a A. Stos-Gale, Eva Hjärthner-Holdar and Lena Grandin
11. Lead and copper mining in Priorat county (Tarragona, Spain): From cooperative exchange networks
to colonial trade (2600–500 BC) 147
Núria Rafel Fontanals, Ignacio Soriano, Xosé-Lois Armada, Mark A. Hunt Ortiz and
Ignacio Montero-Ruiz
vi Contents
PART 4: CONCLUDING REMARKS 159
12. Mobility, minds and metals: The end of archaeological science? 161
Marcos Martinón-Torres
Index 171
Colour fi gures 177
XOSÉ-LOIS ARMADA
Institute of Heritage Sciences (Incipit), Spanish National
Research Council (CSIC), Santiago de Compostela, Spain.
DANIEL BERGER
Curt-Engelhorn-Center Archaeometry gGmbH, Mannheim,
Germany.
PETER BRAY
Research Laboratory for Archaeology and the History of
Art, University of Oxford, UK.
GERHARD BRÜGMANN
Curt-Engelhorn-Center Archaeometry gGmbH, Mannheim,
Germany.
MIKE CHARLTON
UCL Institute of Archaeology, London, UK.
ADELINA DARIE
Bucharest Municipality Museum, Bucharest, Romania.
CAROLIN FRANK
Institute of Earth Sciences – Institute of Prehistory,
Protohistory and Near-Eastern Archaeology, Heidelberg
University, Germany.
MIGDONIA GEORGESCU
National History Museum of Romania, Romania.
LENA GRANDIN
Geoarchaeological laboratory, The Archaeologists, The
Swedish History Museums, Sweden.
EVA HJÄRTHNER-HOLDAR
Geoarchaeological laboratory, The Archaeologists, The
Swedish History Museums, Sweden.
MARK A. HUNT ORTIZ
Departamento de Prehistoria y Arqueología, Universidad
de Sevilla, Spain.
TOBIAS L. KIENLIN
Institut für Ur- und Frühgeschichte, Universität zu Köln,
Germany.
CATALIN LAZAR
National History Museum of Romania; University of
Bucharest. ArchaeoScience#RO, Research Institute of the
University of Bucharest (ICUB), University of Bucharest,
Romania.
BORJA LEGARRA HERRERO
UCL Institute of Archaeology, London, UK.
JOHAN LING
Department of Historical Studies, Archaeology, University
of Gothenburg, Sweden.
JANETA MARAHRENS
Curt-Engelhorn-Center Archaeometry gGmbH, Mannheim,
Germany.
MARCOS MARTINÓN-TORRES
Department of Archaeology, University of Cambridge, UK.
LENE MELHEIM
Department of Archaeology, Museum of Cultural History,
University of Oslo, Sweden.
IGNACIO MONTERO-RUIZ
Institute of History (IH), Spanish National Research Council
(CSIC), Madrid, Spain.
MERCEDES MURILLO-BARROSO
Departamento de Prehistoria y Arqueología, Universidad
de Granada, Spain.
BIANCA NESSEL
Institute of Earth Sciences – Institute of Prehistory,
Protohistory and Near-Eastern Archaeology, Heidelberg
University, Germany.
Contributors
viii Contributors
GHEORGHE NICULESCU
National History Museum of Romania, Romania.
ALICIA PEREA
Institute of History (IH), Spanish National Research Council
(CSIC), Madrid (retired); Independent Researcher, Au
Project, Spain.
ERNST PERNICKA
Institute of Earth Sciences – Institute of Prehistory,
Protohistory and Near-Eastern Archaeology, Heidelberg
University; Curt-Engelhorn-Center Archaeometry gGmbH,
Mannheim, Germany.
NÚRIA RAFEL FONTANALS
Departament Història, Universitat de Lleida, Spain.
MICHAEL ROWLANDS
UCL Anthropology, London, UK.
SUSAN SHERRATT
Department of Archaeology, University of Sheffi eld, UK.
IGNACIO SORIANO
Departament de Prehistòria, Universitat Autònoma de
Barcelona, Spain.
ZOFIA A. STOS -GALE
Department of Historical Studies, Archaeology, University
of Gothenburg, Sweden.