From bright ores to shiny metals

The volume is dedicated to the mineralogist and archae-metallurgist ologist Andreas Hauptmann from Bochum on the occasion of his retirement and contains a foreword, an introduction [Brüggerhoff], a eulogy [Maddin], 19 articles, a bibliography, and a list of authors. The papers deal with archaeometallurgy, the Neolithic and Bronze Age metallurgy of Azerbaijan, gold and silver beads of the 4th/3rd mill., crucibles of the 4th mill. from Sipplingen, a tin ingot from Alaca Höyük, Eastern Alpine mining of the Bronze Age, copper production in the Slovak Ore Mountains, the Bronze Age hoard of raw ingots from Kleinbardorf, a special stone tool from the Nuragic village of Genna Maria, metallurgical vessels from the Phoenician site of La Fonteta, Spain, brass ingots from a Roman wreck at Aléria, Corsica, stamped Roman brass ingots, Roman mining and metalworking near Ulpiana, Kosovo, Roman to Medieval silver extraction at the same place, Late Antique pyrotechnical workshops in Tuscany, arsenic copper in the Carolingian Period, semi-precious stones for pietra dura objects, Russian platinum coins of the 19th century, and benefits and challenges of portable X-ray fluorescence analysers [pXRF].