Bronze Age Metallurgy. Production-Consumption- Exchange

The volume presented here contains contributions from the international workshop Bronze Age Metallurgy. Production-Consumption-Exchange held in Vienna in May 2019. The conference was organised by the Department for Prehistory & West Asian/Northeast African Archaeology, Austrian Archaeological Institute, Austrian Academy of Sciences, and VIAS (Vienna Institute for Archaeological Science, University of Vienna) on the occasion of the 20th anniversary of the Archaeometallurgical Laboratory at VIAS. The main goal was to gather renowned experts in Bronze Age mining archaeology and archaeometallurgy and to discuss recent developments and results concerning copper production and use, trade and exchange of raw materials, and alloying practices in areas of central and southeastern Europe. Altogether, 19 conference papers were presented, reporting on research achievements and new results on Bronze Age Metallurgy in the territories of present-day Austria, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Croatia, Hungary, Germany, Italy, North Macedonia, Poland, Serbia, Slovenia, and Switzerland. Nine of these are presented in this volume; they provide an excellent overview of the new results of Bronze Age Metallurgy in the Balkans and most of the neighboring regions. The results of new analyses, excavations, and systemic studies presented here extend our understanding of metallurgical processes at regional and supra-regional levels during the Bronze Age.