Libros

SUMARIO

Introduction
Alberto Dorado Alejos / Mercedes Murillo Barroso / Francisco Contreras Cortés. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 9

Obtaining information from ceramics: a polyhedral perspective
Alberto Dorado Alejos. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 17

Technological and decorative approach of a Early Bronze Age pottery from Cerro de la Virgen (Orce, Granada, Spain) (2150-1900 BC)
Paula Pinillos de la Granja. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 61

Families behind Potters? Technological Insights in the Analysis of "Ubaid Pottery" From Southern Mesopotamia and their Implications for a Social Reconstruction
Luca Volpi. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 83

An introduction to Archaeometallurgy. Some methodological questions for the study of ancient metallurgical slag
M. Murillo-Barroso. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 103

Arsenical Bronze: Chemical and Metallurgical Aspects of Early Bronze Age in Southeast Iberia
Carmen Alañón Ruedas. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 129

Archeometallurgical study of the Zacatín Deposit (Granada, Spain). A case study of Iberian Bronze Production during the Late Iron Age
Charles Bashore Acero /Andrés M. Adroher Aroux. . . . . . . . .. 155

An Interdisciplinary Approach to Metalworking in Late Antique Rome (5th-7th Centuries Ad)
Giulia Bison . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ..179

Archaeometallurgy of the Medieval Frontier: The Use and Exploitation of Metal in Andalusian and Feudal Contexts
Yaiza Hernández Casas . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 197

Reassessments on the evolution of pre- industrial hydraulic forges. The case of Bizkaia
Eneko Orueta. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 229

SEM and EPMA analysis of silver coins: An investigation into the reliability of nondestructive surface analytical techniques as representative of the bulk of corroded silver artefacts from the 1656 wreck of the Vergulde Draeck
Liesel Gentelli / Alexandra Suvorova / Malcom Roberts. . . . . . .. 245