In 1999, IAMS generously provided the author with a grant for travel to Russia to study the
microstructure of blades from the Russian Northern Caucasus. Thirty-seven blades were …

The article presents the metallographic examination of three sabres and one double-edged
sword coming from the 7th–8th century Slavic-Avar site of Želovce (Slovakia). All four …

The paper presents the results of the research on the Middle Ages iron axes found in
different years in the north of Western Siberia and the Urals, excluding pole-axe (berdysh …

In 2000-2003, a 'royal'burial site in Tuva Republic, Siberia, dating to early Scythian times,
was excavated by a joint German-Russian research program. Thousands of gold articles …

This work is an outcome of a research project on the technology of manufacture of sword
blades in the territory of what is now Poland (research grant of the National Science Centre …

The cultures of" valykova" ceramics occurred in the Great Eurasian Steppe during late
Bronze Age. Its signature is a torus on the areola or the throat of clayey vessel. It is found on …

Recent excavations of kurgans at Soyuq Bulaq in the western part of Azerbaijan, made by
an Azerbaijanian-French team, have re-opened the question of the beginnings of metallurgy …

In the period from 1950s to 1970s, Rastko Rašajski, the custodian of the Museum in the city
of Vršac, collected a vast number of knapped stone artifacts from the sites Crvena and At …

The chemical composition and microstructure of eleven Bronze Age Caucasian daggers
from North Ossetia-Alana, Russia were studied in order to establish a baseline for …

The paper provides technological and morphological analysis of various copper arrowhead
types from the LBA site; those of the Early Alakul'period with tubular sockets, and one more …