Our understanding of early copper metallurgy in the Iberian Peninsula is mostly based on analysis from well-studied regions Southeast and Southwest. This paper focuses two recently recovered Chalcolithic metallurgical assemblages outside these traditional research foci: slagged crucibles Lugar Viejo III (Zaragoza) large slag cakes Cueva del Cañaveralejo (Córdoba). Analysis compositions microstr...

The site of Gülpınar, located in the Troad northwest Anatolia has revealed settlements Early and Middle Chalcolithic periods (late 6th to mid 5th millennia BC). Among artefacts recovered during excavation is a small number personal ornaments. This article provides descriptions considers how they fit into wider ornamentation practices prehistory. There are few published items from period which G...

ABSTRACT The possibility to conduct new fieldwork projects in previously largely unexplored Iraqi Kurdistan during the past decade has reinvigorated research into transformative fifth third millennium BCE (Chalcolithic Early Bronze Age) southwest Asia when human societies grew from small, autonomous villages centralized states with urban centers. Major efforts synchronize stratigraphic sequence...