• Elemental and lead isotopic analysis of recently excavated Luristan bronzes. Contexts from Iron Age western Iran (ca.1000-800 BCE). Tin bronze metallurgy as the main technology in first millennium BCE Iran. Complex use metal resources to produce tin alloys. Use copper sources Iranian Plateau neighbouring areas. The emergence provenance Bronzes has been a subject interest for many decades. Thi...

In analyzing the labor relations and representations of informal sector’s metalworkers in Old Bhopal, where scars disaster caused by Union Carbide factory are still visible, this paper goes beyond to study everyday laboring lives metalworkers. It argues that though sector as a market is extremely loose precarious, fairly structured norms values shaping statutory positions regarding levels skill...

Abstract Since one of the aims modern archaeometallurgy is to understand processes carried out by ancient metalworkers, then ideally, we need go beyond traditional sources evidence for such — physical investigation and chemical analysis objects themselves, associated manufacturing debris. In order intentionality behind decisions taken these metalworkers (the ‘why’, in addition ‘how’), ‘see worl...

The article is devoted to the analysis of finds foundry implements in Bronze Age burials Europe. In addition, it revises criteria for identifying metalworkers. all probability, complexes where professional sphere buried represented only by tools associated with metal work and those a full set suitable should be attributed As result comparison aspects dynamics this phenomena, common specific cha...

Richard Serra is considered one of the leading sculptors of our time. What is not usually pointed out is that much of his work is really mainstream mathematical sculpture. This includes the torqued ellipses, torqued spirals, and spaces between surfaces of zero, positive, and negative curvature. That is, spaces between cylindrical surfaces, conical surfaces, spherical surfaces, and saddle surfac...