Outputs (18)

L’età del Rame in Liguria (2023)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
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.

Produzione e circolazione del bronzo in Liguria nell’età del Ferro (2023)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
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)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
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.

Perceiving Mining Landscapes: Metallurgical Origins and the Perception of Resources in the Landscape (2023)
Book Chapter
Pearce, M., & Maggi, R. (2023). Perceiving Mining Landscapes: Metallurgical Origins and the Perception of Resources in the Landscape. In Settlement Structures and Metallurgy: The Relations between Italy and the Iberian Peninsula in the Early Chalcolithic. Papers of an International Conference Held in Rome, Museo Nazionale Romano – Palazzo Massimo, 6–7 October 2011 (77-86). Deutsches Archaeologisches Institut - Abteilung Rom. https://doi.org/10.34780/t263-e0t2

In Liguria, in north-west Italy, copper mining starts soon after a transformation in the Neolithic economy – the opening up of upland pastures for summer grazing – and seems to be contemporary with the exploitation of other mineral resources, such as... Read More about Perceiving Mining Landscapes: Metallurgical Origins and the Perception of Resources in the Landscape.

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)
Journal Article
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

L’Osteria del Termine: nota in margine a un confine di lunga durata (2021)
Book Chapter
PEARCE, M. (2021). L’Osteria del Termine: nota in margine a un confine di lunga durata. In L. Magnini, C. Bettineschi, & L. Burigana (Eds.), Traces of Complexity: Studi in Onore di Armando De Guio/ Studies in Honour of Armando De Guio (155-158). Quingentole (Mantova), Italy: SAP Società Archeologica s.r.l

This short paper explores various aspects of Armando De Guio’s work through the lens of his discovery of an extraordinarily persistent border on the Luserna plateau, which seems to have conditioned human behaviour from at least the later Bronze Age,... Read More about L’Osteria del Termine: nota in margine a un confine di lunga durata.

L’inizio della seconda fase della coltivazione del rame nel Trentino – Alto Adige/Südtirol (2021)
Book Chapter
Pearce, M., Bellintani, P., & Nicolis, F. (2021). L’inizio della seconda fase della coltivazione del rame nel Trentino – Alto Adige/Südtirol. In P. Bellintani, & E. Silvestri (Eds.), Fare Rame: La metallurgia primaria della tarda età del Bronzo in Trentino: nuovi scavi e stato dell’arte della ricerca sul campo (187-198). Provincia autonoma di Trento

This paper examines our evidence for the date of the beginning of the second phase of copper production in the south-eastern Alps. Lead isotope analysis evidence for artefacts from North Germany and Scandinavia shows the presence in that area of obje... Read More about L’inizio della seconda fase della coltivazione del rame nel Trentino – Alto Adige/Südtirol.

Fare rame: quadro di sintesi su siti e strutture produttive della metallurgia primaria protostorica del Trentino (2021)
Book Chapter
Bellintani, P., Silvestri, E., Bassetti, M., Cappellozza, N., Degasperi, N., Nicolis, F., …Pearce, M. (2021). Fare rame: quadro di sintesi su siti e strutture produttive della metallurgia primaria protostorica del Trentino. In P. Bellintani, & E. Silvestri (Eds.), Fare Rame: La metallurgia primaria della tarda età del Bronzo in Trentino: nuovi scavi e stato dell’arte della ricerca sul campo (269-326). Provincia autonoma di Trento

198 “smelting sites”, dedicated to the processing of copper minerals (mixed sulphides mostly with chalcopyrite) are recorded in eastern Trentino. In general, they are located at altitudes of between 1000 and 1800 m a.s.l.. They are traditionally date... Read More about Fare rame: quadro di sintesi su siti e strutture produttive della metallurgia primaria protostorica del Trentino.

L'atlante inedito di Chierici: gli albi e le carte di distribuzione dei ritrovamenti preistorici nel contesto europeo (2021)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
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)
Journal Article
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.

Caves and rock shelters, burials and smelting (2020)
Journal Article
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.

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)
Journal Article
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

Aspects of urbanism in later Bronze Age northern Italy (2020)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Pearce, M. (2020). Aspects of urbanism in later Bronze Age northern Italy. In Crossing the Alps: Early Urbanism between Northern Italy and Central Europe (900-400 BC) (19-25)

This paper askes the question whether towns may be said to be visible in the archaeological record of northern Italy before the Iron Age. It argues that we should not use the forms of urbanism of the Greek, Etruscan and Roman cities as criteria for i... Read More about Aspects of urbanism in later Bronze Age northern Italy.

Le prime esperienze di metallurgia in Sardegna (2020)
Book Chapter
Pearce, M. (2020). Le prime esperienze di metallurgia in Sardegna. In C. Lugliè, & T. Cossu (Eds.), La preistoria in Sardegna: Il tempo delle comunità umane dal X al II millennio a.C (198-202). Nuoro (Sardinia, Italy): Ilisso

The paper reviews the evidence for early metallurgy on the Italian island of Sardinia

Le origini e la diffusione della metallurgia nel Mediterraneo occidentale (2020)
Book Chapter
PEARCE, M. (2020). Le origini e la diffusione della metallurgia nel Mediterraneo occidentale. In C. Lugliè, & T. Cossu (Eds.), La preistoria in Sardegna: Il tempo delle comunità umane dal X al II millennio a.C (194-197). Nuoro (Sardinia, Italy): Ilisso

The paper reviews the origins and spread of metallurgy in the western Mediterranean

Liguria: aperture e chiusure di un’isola fra due pianure (2020)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Maggi, R., Binder, D., Panelli, C., Gabriele, M., Pearce, M., Rossi, S., & Rowley-Conwy, P. (2020). Liguria: aperture e chiusure di un’isola fra due pianure. Rivista di Scienze Preistoriche, 70(S1), 83-97

This paper discusses Neolithic and Copper Age Liguria, Braudel’s ‘island’, a mountain chain situated between the Mediterranean and the Po plain. The Neolithic colonisation of western Liguria and the Mediterranean coasts of France happened a short ti... Read More about Liguria: aperture e chiusure di un’isola fra due pianure.

Frattesina and the later Bronze Age – Early Iron Age metals trade: the absolute chronology of smelting sites in the Trentino – Alto Adige/Südtirol (2020)
Journal Article
Pearce, M., Bellintani, P., & Nicolis, F. (2020). Frattesina and the later Bronze Age – Early Iron Age metals trade: the absolute chronology of smelting sites in the Trentino – Alto Adige/Südtirol. Padusa, Bollettino del Centro Polesano, 55, 67-86

We present 15 new 14C dates for copper smelting sites in the Trentino, together with 31 published dates for smelting sites in the region. Smelting may have already begun in the sixteenth century cal BC and continued until the ninth century cal BC. Th... Read More about Frattesina and the later Bronze Age – Early Iron Age metals trade: the absolute chronology of smelting sites in the Trentino – Alto Adige/Südtirol.

The Curse of the pXRF: the Negative Consequences of the Popularity of Handheld XRF Analysis of Copper-Based Metal Artefacts (2019)
Journal Article
Pearce, M. (2019). The Curse of the pXRF: the Negative Consequences of the Popularity of Handheld XRF Analysis of Copper-Based Metal Artefacts. Metalla, 24(2), 81-85

In this paper I shall explore some of the negative consequences of the current popularity of portable X-ray fluorescence (pXRF) analysis. There is no doubt that this portable device, which can be taken to museums and sites, has revolutionised the stu... Read More about The Curse of the pXRF: the Negative Consequences of the Popularity of Handheld XRF Analysis of Copper-Based Metal Artefacts.