The article discusses an original seriation and chronology for prehistoric Italian metalwork, c.
4500-2100 BC, which these authors developed as part of the EU-funded TEMPI project …

This paper discusses the Neolithic beginnings of metal-using and metal-working in the
central Mediterranean region. In particular, a basic yet surprisingly long-standing question is …

Per la qualità e la quantità dei segni incisi, il complesso petroglifico del Monte Bego (fig. 3)
as-sume, insieme alla Valcamonica, il ruolo di polo dell'arte rupestre alpina. Ne costituisce a …

The article's aim is to foster an interdisciplinary debate regarding the direction that
archaeometallurgical studies in the central Mediterranean region, from the late Neolithic to …

Abstract Lead Isotopes Analysis (LIA) is a well-established technique, that is used to
determine the origin of copper in an artefact under investigation (ie “provenancing”), through …

Questo lavoro intende fornire un quadro di sintesi e di aggiornamento sulla facies eneolitica
di Malpasso diffusa sulla cuspide NE della Sicilia. I siti noti da bibliografia sono stati …

In central-southern Tuscany radiolarite has been used as a lithic raw material throughout
prehistory. During the Copper Age it was selected for the local production of leaf-shaped …

The central Mediterranean during the 4th-3rd millennia BC is traditionally considered a
period of economic and social transformation between the Neolithic and Bronze Age …

In the past, many scholars have attempted to find tin sources, in the central Mediterranean
area, for bronze production, mostly between the Medium Bronze and Recent Bronze Age …

The earliest evidence of metallurgy in the Alban Hills (Latium, central Italy), dated between
the Eneolithic and the Recent Bronze Age (c. IV–end of II millennium BC), is described …