Outputs (21)

Combining isotope ratios for provenancing Viking Age iron artefacts in the British Isles: a pilot study (2023)
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Harding, S. E., Jones, C., Evans, J., Milot, J., Cutajar, M., Bailey, E., …Pearce, M. (2023). Combining isotope ratios for provenancing Viking Age iron artefacts in the British Isles: a pilot study. RSC Advances, 13(44), 31292-31302. https://doi.org/10.1039/D3RA06367D

Stable and radiogenic isotope analysis – particularly using lead isotope analysis (LIA) - has previously been shown to be a useful tool for the provenancing of ancient metal artefacts of silver and copper and its alloys, but less progress has been ma... Read More about Combining isotope ratios for provenancing Viking Age iron artefacts in the British Isles: a pilot study.

Produzione e circolazione del bronzo in Liguria nell’età del Ferro (2023)
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Pearce, M., & Maggi, R. (2023). Produzione e circolazione del bronzo in Liguria nell’età del Ferro. Rivista di Scienze Preistoriche, 73(Special no. S3), 525-533

THE PRODUCTION AND CIRCULATION OF BRONZE IN IRON AGE LIGURIA - The paper discusses the lead isotope data available in the literature and in the OXALID online database for bronze artefacts from the Iron Age (third quarter of the 8th – beginning of the... Read More about Produzione e circolazione del bronzo in Liguria nell’età del Ferro.

La miniera di Monte Loreto dal Neolitico all’alto Medioevo (2023)
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Campana, N., Maggi, R., & Pearce, M. (2023). La miniera di Monte Loreto dal Neolitico all’alto Medioevo. Rivista di Scienze Preistoriche, 73(Special no. S3), 509-524

This paper discusses prehistoric copper mining at Monte Loreto. Work between 1996 and 2004 by the then Archaeological Superintendency of Liguria and Dept of Archaeology, University of Nottingham (UK), had two main aims: 1) in collaboration with the... Read More about La miniera di Monte Loreto dal Neolitico all’alto Medioevo.

L’età del Rame in Liguria (2023)
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Maggi, R., & Pearce, M. (2023). L’età del Rame in Liguria. Rivista di Scienze Preistoriche, 73(Special issue 3), 89-109

There is very little archaeological evidence for Copper Age material culture in Liguria. The paper begins with a review of our knowledge of: lithics, beads, pottery, copper artefacts and statue-stele. Close relations are indicated with Provence and n... Read More about L’età del Rame in Liguria.

Review of Le miniere delle Alpi Apuane (Toscana): Storia dello sfruttamento minerario dall'antichità al XX secolo. (BAR International Series 3034). By Marco Baldi, edited by Deborah Giannessi. 21 x 30 cm. xx + 277 pp, 167 colour and b&w pls and figs, 34 tavole/plate pages. Oxford: BAR Publishing, 2021. ISBN 978-1-4073-5832-1; epub: 978-1-4073-5833-8. Price: £69.00 pb. (2022)
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Pearce, M. (2022). Review of Le miniere delle Alpi Apuane (Toscana): Storia dello sfruttamento minerario dall'antichità al XX secolo. (BAR International Series 3034). By Marco Baldi, edited by Deborah Giannessi. 21 x 30 cm. xx + 277 pp, 167 colour and b&w pls and figs, 34 tavole/plate pages. Oxford: BAR Publishing, 2021. ISBN 978-1-4073-5832-1; epub: 978-1-4073-5833-8. Price: £69.00 pb. Medieval Archaeology, 66(1), 204-205. https://doi.org/10.1080/00766097.2022.2065071

The smelting of copper in the third millennium cal BC Trentino, north-eastern Italy (2021)
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Pearce, M., Merkel, S., Hauptmann, A., & Nicolis, F. (2022). The smelting of copper in the third millennium cal BC Trentino, north-eastern Italy. Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences, 14(1), Article 10. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12520-021-01475-1

This paper presents observations and analyses on seven slag pieces from two third millennium cal BC (late Copper Age / early Bronze Age) rock shelters in the Trentino, northeastern Italy: La Vela di Valbusa and the Riparo di Monte Terlago. We review... Read More about The smelting of copper in the third millennium cal BC Trentino, north-eastern Italy.

L'atlante inedito di Chierici: gli albi e le carte di distribuzione dei ritrovamenti preistorici nel contesto europeo (2021)
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Pearce, M. (2021). L'atlante inedito di Chierici: gli albi e le carte di distribuzione dei ritrovamenti preistorici nel contesto europeo. Bullettino di Paletnologia Italiana, 100(1), 149-155

At his death in 1886, Gaetano Chierici was preparing an Atlante della paletnologia del Reggiano (Atlas of the prehistory of the province of Reggio Emilia), which he probably intended should include his unpublished Albo of 14 lithographic plates of si... Read More about L'atlante inedito di Chierici: gli albi e le carte di distribuzione dei ritrovamenti preistorici nel contesto europeo.

The historical significance of Frattesina (2021)
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Pearce, M. (2021). The historical significance of Frattesina. Padusa, Bollettino del Centro Polesano, 56 (2020), 163-172

This paper offers a brief overview of the key points of scholarly agreement in the interpretation of Frattesina, a manufacturing and trading centre at the head of the Adriatic, in north-east Italy, that flourished between the twelfth and ninth centur... Read More about The historical significance of Frattesina.

Review of Albore Livadie C., Vecchio G. a cura di, Nola - Croce del Papa: un villaggio sepolto dall’eruzione vesuviana delle Pomici di Avellino, Collection du Centre Jean Bérard 54, Centre Jean Bérard, Napoli, 2020 (2020)
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Pearce, M. (2020). Review of Albore Livadie C., Vecchio G. a cura di, Nola - Croce del Papa: un villaggio sepolto dall’eruzione vesuviana delle Pomici di Avellino, Collection du Centre Jean Bérard 54, Centre Jean Bérard, Napoli, 2020. Origini, 44(2020), 197-200. https://doi.org/10.48235/1006

Caves and rock shelters, burials and smelting (2020)
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Pearce, M. (2020). Caves and rock shelters, burials and smelting. Metalla, Sonderheft 10, 17-21. https://doi.org/10.46586/metalla.v.2020.i10

This paper is an extended abstract for the International Conference on Resources and Transformation in Pre-modern Societies, Bochum 19–21 November 2020, 11 December 2020 and 15 January 2021. It discusses the world view of Copper Age and Early Bronze... Read More about Caves and rock shelters, burials and smelting.