Archaeometry & Materials Analysis: Metallurgic Analysis (Other Keyword)
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This is an abstract from the "Archaeometallurgy, Eurasia and Beyond: Papers in Honor of Vince Pigott" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. From about 1973 through the early 1990’s the University of Pennsylvania group of Maddin, Muhly, Pigott and Stech were among the world leaders in archaeometallurgy. In this presentation I try to situate their work within a brief history of his topic in North America. With two notable exceptions (the consultant...
Analyses of metallurgical remains from Failaka, Kuwait: Exploring the Persian Gulf metals trade in the 2nd millennium BCE (2025)
This is an abstract from the "Archaeometallurgy, Eurasia and Beyond: Papers in Honor of Vince Pigott" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. This paper reviews the exchange of metals within the greater Persian Gulf region during the 2nd millennium BCE, considering archaeological, archaeometric and documentary evidence. The specific focus is the metallurgical assemblage from Failaka Island (Kuwait) and its implications for the continued production and...
Copper-Based Metals from the Tanzanian Swahili Coast: Connections, Technologies, and Implications (2025)
This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. <html> Examining non-ferrous metals from the Tanzanian Swahili Coast, many imported and reworked locally, can serve as proxy to understanding the impact of Indian Ocean trade on local economies, particularly with regard to the consumption of semi-exotic materials and finished goods. Copper-based metals (and even lead metals) were relatively commonly...
Early iron metallurgy in the eastern Mediterranean and beyond (2025)
This is an abstract from the "Archaeometallurgy, Eurasia and Beyond: Papers in Honor of Vince Pigott" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The appearance of iron in southwest Asia in the late second to early first millennium BCE is currently understood as a complex social phenomenon, and yet pinpointing even broad details of a technological emergence that led to a full-fledged Iron Age has proven to be a major challenge. Since the work commemorated in...
Eurasian discoveries in Bronze- an archaeological tribute to Vincent Pigott (2025)
This is an abstract from the "Archaeometallurgy, Eurasia and Beyond: Papers in Honor of Vince Pigott" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Bronze technology transformed the a range of Eurasian societies in prehistory, shaping the economic, political, and symbolic landscape for millennia. In Central Eurasia, tin-bronze (in particular) held a particular role. This paper will explore the innovation and integration of tin-bronze in Central Eurasian...
Final Bronze to Early Iron Age Metallurgical Technologies at Kimirek-kum-1, Uzbekistan (2025)
This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. <html> While metal production technologies and exchange networks in Bronze Age Central Asia have captured much scholarly attention, the metal economy of the subsequent Final Bronze to Early Iron Age southern Central Asia in the late 2<sup>nd</sup> millennium BC is rarely investigated. Recent excavations and surveys at Kimirek-kum-1 (KK1; ca. 1250-1050 cal....
Gold and heterarchy: from Crete to Colombia (2025)
This is an abstract from the "Archaeometallurgy, Eurasia and Beyond: Papers in Honor of Vince Pigott" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The role of metals in prehistoric societies is typically linked to concepts of power and hierarchy. Challenging established assumptions, the project led by Vince Piggott and colleagues in the KWPV of Thailand was one of the first to introduce heterarchy in archaeometallurgy. They demonstrated that large-scale,...
High-tin Bronze in Southeast Asia: Where Did it Come from, How was it Made, and Who Used it? (2025)
This is an abstract from the "Archaeometallurgy, Eurasia and Beyond: Papers in Honor of Vince Pigott" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. <html> One noteworthy feature of metallurgy in Southeast Asia is the appearance of quenched high-tin (tin between 20% and 30%) artifacts in the later 1<sup>st</sup> millennium BC. This intractable alloy cannot be worked cold but only hot-worked. Thin-walled (o.2-0.3mm) vessels of quenched high-tin bronze have been...
Linkages between Copper and Bronze Technological Styles and Pastoral Movement in Late Chalcolithic and Early Bronze Age Central Asia (2025)
This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The socio-economic impact of pastoralism, particularly sheep grazing, is one of the more thoroughly investigated themes in contemporary ethnohistoric and archaeological landscape studies for Central Asia, particularly in relation to practices of vertical and horizontal transhumance. However, the cultural implications of pastoralist practices in relation...
Phu Lon and back again: following the steps of the Father of holistic Southeast Asian archaeometallurgy, Professor Vincent C. Pigott (2025)
This is an abstract from the "Archaeometallurgy, Eurasia and Beyond: Papers in Honor of Vince Pigott" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Prehistoric metal artefacts have been studied archaeometrically since the outset of scientific archaeology in Thailand in the mid-1960s, sometimes by renowned archaeometallurgists like Bob Maddin, Cyril Stanley Smith, Igor Selimkhanov, Nigel Seeley and Tamara Stech Wheeler. However, it was only with the founding of...
Reviewing arsenical copper production in western Eurasia: new evidence from the Balkans (2025)
This is an abstract from the "Archaeometallurgy, Eurasia and Beyond: Papers in Honor of Vince Pigott" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. <html> Copper metallurgy in the Balkans is famous for its massive copper metal implements circulating this area throughout the 5<sup>th</sup> millennium BC. The first known copper alloy, arsenical copper, occurred in the Balkan Late Chalcolithic cultures by the end of this period. However, very little evidence is...
Sourcing Silver Objects from the “Royal” Burials of Durbi Takusheyi, North-Central Nigeria (2025)
This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The archaeological site of Durbi Takusheyi, located in the Katsina region of northern Nigeria, was a presumed “royal” burial site which produced evidence of materials and finished goods, including silver objects, with cultures from North Africa, the Middle East, and Mediterranean through Trans-Saharan trade networks. This research aims to examine the...
Surviving the Crisis Years? Exploring the Bronze Age-Iron Age Transition in the South Caucasus (2025)
This is an abstract from the "Archaeometallurgy, Eurasia and Beyond: Papers in Honor of Vince Pigott" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. From the Balkans to the Iranian Plateau, the end of the Bronze Age and the beginning of the Iron Age was a critical period of transformation, defined by crisis, collapse, resurgence and reorganization. The South Caucasus appears an unusual exception to this broader trend, one whose significance for the broader study...
TAP’ing the Origins of Angkor: Incipient research on iron and the expansion of the Khmer Empire, Cambodia (2025)
This is an abstract from the "Archaeometallurgy, Eurasia and Beyond: Papers in Honor of Vince Pigott" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. <html> Late 20<sup>th</sup> century metallurgical research in mainland Southeast Asia, led by the Thai Archaeological Project, spearheaded interest in the relationship between copper alloy production and increasing prehistoric social complexity (mid-2<sup>nd</sup> m to mid-1<sup>st</sup> m. BCE). Lack of prehistoric...
Tiptoeing Across the Threshold: Early Copper use and inter-regional interaction in Chalcolithic Greater Mesopotamia (2025)
This is an abstract from the "Archaeometallurgy, Eurasia and Beyond: Papers in Honor of Vince Pigott" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The earliest evidence for copper artifacts in Northern Mesopotamia (N Syria, SE Anatolia, and N Iraq) derives from the Ubaid period and the Uruk Period. These technological developments were contemporaneous with the operation of two major economic systems of inter-regional exchange: the “Ubaid interaction sphere”...
Treasure from Trash: XRF Analysis of Nineteenth- and Early Twentieth-Century Metal Artifacts from San Antonio, Texas (2025)
This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Before Trinity University, a small liberal arts campus of approximately 2700 students, moved to its present location in San Antonio, Texas, the land was used as a limestone quarry, a low-income informal housing site, and a municipal trash dump site in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. When the university purchased the land in the 1940s...
Vince Pigott's Impact on Iranian Archaeometallurgy (2025)
This is an abstract from the "Archaeometallurgy, Eurasia and Beyond: Papers in Honor of Vince Pigott" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The Iranian Plateau is widely acknowledged to be one of the original 'heartlands' of metallurgical production in the Old World, from the early adoption of native copper to the large-scale production of arsenical copper to the eventual adoption and production of iron. But our understanding of Iran's place in the...