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The Proceedings ‘The Fourth International Conference on the Beginning of the Use of Metals and Alloys - BUMA-IV' May 25-27, 1998, Kunibiki Messe, Matsue,Shimane, Japan.

Contents -

Robert Maddin.
Early Metallurgy: The Tin Mystery-1998

Noboru Masuko
History of Copper as a Mirror of Japanese Culture and Technology

Mitsuru Tate
A Short History of "TATARA" Japanese Traditional Iron Sand Smelting Process

Yoshinori Anazawa
Changes in Japanese Iron-Smelting Methods from an Archaeological Viewpoint

Mutsumi Haba
New Explanation of the Differences between Ironstone-Smelting and Ironsand-Smelting Mechanisms in the Japanese Pre-Modern Period.

Steelmaking Mechanisms for a Modified Tatara Furnace
Kazuhiro Nagata

Tamiya Kishida, Yutaka Satoh, Hiroshi Miyake, Yoshiyuki Murakawa, Takuo Suzuki,
Akira Kihara, Yoshihiro Kubo
Characteristics Changes of Several Iron and Steel Materials during Forging Process of the Japanese Swordmaking

Rose Solangaarachchi.
The Beginning of Iron and It's Production Technology in Ancient Sri Lanka

D.P. Agrawal
Early Indian Iron Technology and Himalayan Contacts

Guntram Gassman
New Discoveries and Excavations of Early Celtic Iron Furnaces (6th to 2nd Century BC in Germany)

Albrecht Jockenhoevel, Christoph Willms, Thorsten Abdinghoff and Michael Overbeck
Archaeological Investigations on the Beginning of Blast Furnace-Technology in Central Europe

Kenzo Igaki
Looking for Everlasting Iron

Sharada Srinivasan
Highlights of Ancient Metallurgy in South India: Technical Evidence for the Early Use of High-Tin Bronzes, High-Carbon Steel, Metallic Zinc and Smelting of Bronze.

Paul T. Craddock and Weirong Zhou
The Survival of Traditional Zinc Production in China

Donna Strahan
A Technical Study of 11-12th c. Khmer Bronze Sculpture

Alessandra Giumlia-Mair, Matthias Lehr
Patinating Black Bronzes: Texts and Tests

Alessandra Giumlia-Mair
Hellenistic NIELLO

Jin Zhengyao, Zheng Guang, Yoshimitsu Hirao, Yasuhiro Hayakawa, W. T. Chase
The Copper and Tin Ingots of the Late Bronze Age Mediterranean: New Scientific Evidence

Einar Mattsson, Anders G. Nord, Kate Tronner, Monica Fjaestad
Deterioration of Archaeological Bronze in Soil

Peter Kresten, Eva Hjaerthner-Holdar, Lena Larsson
Geochemistry in Archaeometallurgy

Wan Li, Xu Fei, Zhu Yifan, Li Dagang
A New Technique Study on the Preservation of Bronze Cultural Relies Treated by AMT Composite Reagent

Salvador Rovira, Ignacio Montero, Pablo Gomez-Ramos
The Beginning of the Use of Metals in Spain

A. Cincotti, G. Demutas, Fulvia Lo Schiavo
Copper-Arsenic in the Prehistor of Sardinia Archaeometric Determinations

Barbara Ottaway
The Settlement as an Early Smelting Place of Copper?

Jai Ying
The Distinctive Features of Bronzes of Xiotuanshan Culture in Northeastern Region of China


Jun Chang Yang
Scientific Research to the Yang Sui of the Western Zhou


Fulvia Lo Schiavo, Roberto Valera
Archaeomining and Archaeometallurgy: An Essential Multidisciplimary Approach. Silver in the Prehistory of Sardinia


Annamaria Cincotti, Luigi Massidda, Ulrico Sanna and Fulvia Lo Schiavo
Silver Content of Lead and Copper Alloy Finds of Nuragic Age. Archeometric Analyses of Silver Objects Found in Sardinia.

Koichi Ueda
Metallurgical Technology at lwami Silver Mine in the Edo Period of Japan

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Obtainable from

Japan Institute of Metals
Aoba, Aramaki, Aoba-ku
Sendai City 980-0845
Japan

I am informed by Prof Maddin that the cost of one copy is
5,000 Yen (with the mailing cost included)

Chris Salter

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