Metals and Societies. Studies in honour of Barbara S. Ottaway, 2009, 468 p. -

I. Metals and Societies : C. P. Thornton, Archaeometallurgy: Evidence of a Paradigm Shift ? ; M. Bartelheim, Elites and Metals in the Central European Early Bronze Age ; R. Krause, Bronze Age Copper Production in the Alps: Organisation and Social Hierarchies in Mining Communities ; T. L. Kienlin, T. Stöllner, Singen Copper, Alpine Settlement and Early Bronze Age Mining: Is There a Need for Elites and Strongholds? ; E. C. Wager, Mining Ore and Making People: Re-thinking Notions of Gender and Age in Bronze Age Mining Communities ; C. Strahm ; A. Hauptmann, The Metallurgical Developmental Phases in the Old World ; B. Roberts, Origins, Transmission and Traditions: Analysing Early Metal in Western Europe ; B. Mille, L. Carozza, Moving into the Metal Ages: The Social Importance of Metal at the End of the Neolithic Period in France ; D. Brandherm, The Social Context of Early Bronze Age Metalworking in Iberia: Evidence from the Burial Record ; J. Bintliff, Is the Essence of Innovative Archaeology a Technology for the Unconscious? / II. Aspects of Copper and Bronze Age Metallurgy : D Bori?, Absolute Dating of Metallurgical Innovations in the Vin?a Culture of the Balkans ; N. Boroffka, Simple Technology: Casting Moulds for Axe-adzes ; T. L. Kienlin, E. Pernicka, Aspects of the Production of Copper Age Jászladány Type Axes ; M. Pearce, How Much Metal was there in Circulation in Copper Age Italy? ; P. Ambert et al., The Copper Mines of Cabrières (Hérault) in Southern France and the Chalcolithic Metallurgy ; R. Müller, E. Pernicka, Chemical Analyses in Archaeometallurgy: A View on the Iberian Peninsula ; S. La Niece, C. Cartwright, Bronze Age Gold Lock-rings with Cores of Wax and Wood ; T. Cowie, B. O'Connor, Some Early Bronze Age Stone Moulds from ; V. Kiss, The Life Cycle of Middle Bronze Age Bronze Artefacts from the Western Part of the Carpathian Basin ; E. Duberow, E. Pernicka, A. Krenn-Leeb, Eastern Alps or Western Carpathians: Early Bronze Age Metal within the Wieselburg Culture ; M. Mödlinger, G. Trnka, Herstellungstechnische Untersuchungen an Riegseeschwertern aus Ostösterreich ; B. Horejs, Metalworkers at the Çukuriçi Höyük? An Early Bronze Age Mould and a “Near Eastern Weight” from Western Anatolia ; V. C. Pigott, “Luristan Bronzes” and the Development of Metallurgy in the West-Central Zagros, Iran ; Q. Wang, J. Mei, Some Observations on Recent Studies of Bronze Casting Technology in Ancient China / III. Approaches to Early Metallurgy : W. Fasnacht, 7000 Years of Trial and Error in Copper Metallurgy – in One Experimental Life ; C. Jackson, Experimental Archaeology and Education: Theory without Practice is Empty; Practice without Theory is Blind ; S. Rovira, I. Montero-Ruiz, M. Renzi, Experimental Co-smelting to Copper-tin Alloys ; J. Heeb, Thinking Through Technology – An Experimental Approach to the Copper Axes from Southeastern Europe ; C. Merrony, B. Hanks, R. Doonan, Seeking the Process: The Application of Geophysical Survey on some Early Mining and Metalworking Sites / IV. Studies in Historical Metallurgy : A. Giumlia-Mair, P. Gaboda, H. Györy, I. Vozil, Two Statuettes with ?mty km Inlays in the Fine Arts Museum Budapest ; N. Nerantzis, Using Mills to Refine Metals: Iron Smelting Technology of the Transitional Byzantine to Ottoman Period in Macedonia, Greece ; P. T. Craddock, Perceptions and Reality: The Fall and Rise of the Indian Mining and Metal Industry.