WORLD ARCHAEOLOGY OF GOLD
Duncan Miller and Paul Craddock
The contributions are more clearly defined in topic in that all are concerned with various aspects of the technical history and scientific study of gold production and goldworking. Included, there are two papers on gold mining, two on the refining of gold, two on goldworking and one each on the more general and diverse topics of the technical considerations of the aesthetics of goldwork and on the fingerprinting of gold sources by trace element analysis. The latter paper should prove especially important as the research represents one of the more important breakthroughs in the provenancing of metals in antiquity generally.
This has provided a very balanced framework within which it should be possible to generate debate on a wide range of topics connected with gold. Thus the potential is there to attract an audience with a diverse interests to discuss these topics both generally and more specifically applied to the history of gold mining and working within southern Africa.
papers:
Author 1 Author 2 Title
Armbruster Traditional gold mining and gold working in Mali (West Africa)
Armbruster Relations between Bronze Age and Early Iron Age gold work from the Iberian Peninsula and Halstatt gold: reflections on the gold torc from the tomb of a Celtic “princess” (Vix, Burgundy, France)
Baines The laboratory reconstruction of some Etruscan and Greek goldworks
Cauuet Exploitation of gold in the Iron Age of France
Craddock Meeks The surface enhancement and refitting of gold by cementation: an overview
Dube Some aspects of history and metallurgy of gold in Ancient India
Falchetti The Transformation of the seed: an approach to the symbolism of gold, ritual offerings and trade among the Uwa of central Colombia and related communities.
Merkel The development of Pre-Inca metal production and traditions based upon technical studies of excavated objects from the North Coast of Peru
Miller et al The Ancient Gold of Southern Africa Meets Modern Science: Trace element study by LA-ICP-MS of gold from southern African archaeological sites
Perez The influence of central Andean metallurgy in Highlands of southern Columbia
Rehren Young Melting and refining of gold in Egypt and beyond
Samper Early manifestations of Tairona goldwork
Schorsh Gold and silver in Ancient Egypt: aesthetic considerations