All Outputs (2)

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.