Dear Sheppard,
For Spain itself there is a very active scene in archaeometallurgical
research as the progamme for the recent AIM Archaeometallurgy in Europe
meeting in Aquileiea will testify. There is also a very large body of
published work, almost all in Spanish but still very easy to use.
Try as a starting point:
Salvador Rovira Llorens, Ignacio Montero Ruiz and Susana Consuegra
Rodriguez, 1997: Las primeras etapas metalurgicas en la Peninsula
Iberica, I, Analisis de Materiales, (Madrid: Instituto Universitario
Ortega y Gasset) (ISBN 84-922562-9-X
German Delibes de Castro and Ignacio Montero Ruiz, eds., 1999: Las
primeras etapas metalurgicas en la Peninsula Iberica, II, Estudios
regionales, (Madrid: Instituto Universitario Ortega y Gasset) (ISBN
84-95048-22-1)
and there has been much more since.
In terms of relevant objects, metal is more problematic than pottery,
and of course many imports may have been recycled out of identifiable
existence. From the Eastern Mediterranean there is a distribution in
Atlantic Europe there is a distribution of Cypriot daggers but the
provenance of most is dubious to say the least.
Peter Northover
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Dr Peter Northover,
Materials Science-Based Archaeology Group,
Department of Materials, University of Oxford
Tel +44 (0)1865 283721; Fax +44 (0)1865 841943 Mobile +44 (0)7785 501745
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