List members may be interested in the following, edited from
the Arch-pub list (apologies for any cross-posting)
Mark
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The Proceedings ofThe 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 include:
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
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?
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.
Obtainable from
Japan Institute of Metals, Aoba, Aramaki, Aoba-ku
Sendai City 980-0845, Japan
Cost about 5,000 Yen (inc mailing)
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Mediterranean Prehistory Online, the electronic journal of the "Early
Prehistoric Migration" project (http://www.tmr.abaco-mac.it), has
been updated - Italian articles:
Prehistoric exploitation of obsidian for tool making in the Italian
peninsula: a picture from a rich fission-track data-set, by Giulio
Bigazzi and Giovanna Radi
Pyroclastic Temper in Apulian Bronze Age pottery: the long
distance impact of a Vesuvian eruption, by Sara T. Levi, Raffaello
Cioni, Fabio Fratini & Elena Pecchioni
The articles can be read and downloaded at http://www.med.abaco-
mac.it
(Silvia Costantini)
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** Sardinian and Aegean Chronology: Towards a Resolution of
Relative and Absolute Dating in the Mediterrnean by Oxbow
Books. The volume addresses the pre-neolithic and pre-nuragic
periods in Sardinia and Corsica, as well as the Bronze and Iron
Age cultures of both Sardinia and the Aegean world. The volume
includes 45 contributions by such well known scholars as David
Trump, Peter Kuniholm, Santo Tine`, Peter James, Paul Sondaar,
Francois de Lanfranchi, Ercole Contu, Patricia Phillips, Alberto
Moravetti, Giovanni Ugas, Luisanna Usai, Lucia Vagnetti, Philip
Betancourt, Sturt Manning, Malcolm Wiener, Manfred Bietak,
Peter Warren, Fulvia Lo Schiavo, Vance Watrous, Piero Bartoloni,
Sarah Morris, John Papadopoulos, Carlo Tronchetti, and Gary
Webster. The price of the book, which includes color plates, has
been reduced substantially thanks to a generous grant from the
Institute for Aegean Prehistory.
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AIA LIST DIGEST New Books & CDs 98-99-f-189
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Dr Mark PEARCE,
Dept of Archaeology, University of NOTTINGHAM, University Park, Nottingham NG7 2RD, UK.
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