Outputs (38)

Hard cheese: upland pastoralism in the Italian Bronze and Iron Ages (2016)
Book Chapter
Pearce, M. (2016). Hard cheese: upland pastoralism in the Italian Bronze and Iron Ages. In J. R. Collis, M. Pearce, & F. Nicolis (Eds.), Summer farms: seasonal exploitation of the uplands from prehistory to the present (47-56). JR Collis Publications

By moving livestock to summer farms, fodder at the home base is saved but the milk and other animal products produced during the animals’ absence are no longer immediately available to those left at the home base. In this paper I shall explore the ec... Read More about Hard cheese: upland pastoralism in the Italian Bronze and Iron Ages.

Archaeology and archaeometallurgy: some unresolved areas in the interpretation of analytical data (2016)
Journal Article
Pearce, M. (in press). Archaeology and archaeometallurgy: some unresolved areas in the interpretation of analytical data. Science and Technology of Archaeological Research, 2(1), https://doi.org/10.1080/20548923.2016.1160593

This paper uses examples from Mediterranean and in particular Italian prehistory to explore the interface between prehistoric archaeology and metals analysis by examining three areas: the usefulness of data from past analyses (‘what is it made of?’),... Read More about Archaeology and archaeometallurgy: some unresolved areas in the interpretation of analytical data.

Giovanni Patroni e l’opposizione a Luigi Pigorini (2015)
Book Chapter
Pearce, M. (2015). Giovanni Patroni e l’opposizione a Luigi Pigorini. In A. Guidi (Ed.), 150 anni di preistoria e protostoria in Italia. Istituto italiano di preistoria e protostoria

Giovanni Patroni e l’opp osizione a Luigi Pigorini - Giovanni Patroni (1868-1951) is notorious for a virulently anti-communist passage describing the inhabitants of the Terramare, which appears in his La Preistoria d’Italia (2 vols, Milan, 1937). He... Read More about Giovanni Patroni e l’opposizione a Luigi Pigorini.

The spread of early copper mining and metallurgy in Europe: an assessment of the diffusionist model: a key-note lecture (2015)
Book Chapter
Pearce, M. (2015). The spread of early copper mining and metallurgy in Europe: an assessment of the diffusionist model: a key-note lecture. In A. Hauptmann, & D. Modaressi-Tehrani (Eds.), Archaeometallurgy in Europe III: proceedings of the 3rd International Conference, Deutsches Bergbau-Museum Bochum, June 29 – July 1, 2011. Deutsches Bergbau-Museum

Impact, language communities and archaeological schools: British Archaeologists and Italian Neolithic studies (2014)
Book Chapter
Pearce, M. (2014). Impact, language communities and archaeological schools: British Archaeologists and Italian Neolithic studies. In M. Pearce, & R. D. Whitehouse (Eds.), Rethinking the Italian Neolithic. Accordia Research Institute

Early metallurgy in Iberia and the western Mediterranean (2014)
Book Chapter
Bartelheim, M., & Pearce, M. (2015). Early metallurgy in Iberia and the western Mediterranean. In C. Fowler, J. Harding, & D. Hofman (Eds.), The Oxford handbook of Neolithic Europe. Oxford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199545841.001.0001

This chapter explores early metallurgy and metalwork in Iberia and the western Mediterranean, focusing on the metal-using phase known as ‘Chalcolithic’. After providing a background on the Iberian peninsula and its potential importance for early meta... Read More about Early metallurgy in Iberia and the western Mediterranean.

Into the realm of “obscurity and thick darkness”: can we reconstruct the belief systems of past miners? (2014)
Journal Article
Pearce, M. (2014). Into the realm of “obscurity and thick darkness”: can we reconstruct the belief systems of past miners?

The spirit of the sword and spear (2013)
Journal Article
Pearce, M. (2013). The spirit of the sword and spear. Cambridge Archaeological Journal, 23(1), https://doi.org/10.1017/S0959774313000048

From the Norse sagas or the Arthurian cycles, we are used to the concept that the warrior’s weapon has an identity, a name. In this article I shall ask whether some prehistoric weapons also had an identity. Using case studies of La Tène swords, early... Read More about The spirit of the sword and spear.