This chapter summarises the macroscopic and microscopic analyses of pottery sherds from
the sites of Belovode and Pločnik, presented in Chapters 14 and 31, and provides insight …

The recent set of excavations (campaigns 2012 and 2013) at the sites of Belovode and
Pločnik (see Chapters 11 and 26) have shown the use of copper minerals and metallurgical …

The chronology of the sites of Belovode and Pločnik has been discussed several times in
the past two decades since excavations were renewed at each site (Arsenijević and Živković …

The study of early metallurgy has many aspects and has, accordingly, taken many forms and
foci (Rehren and Pernicka 2008 and literature therein). Some scholars have documented …

As outlined in Chapter 2, three key lines of enquiry shaped The Rise of Metallurgy in Eurasia
project and underpinned the research questions. Firstly, there are competing views about …

How is it possible that people kill each other? And above all: how is it possible that people
who are able to peacefully live with each other at one moment, can kill each other at another …

This chapter reviews the pre-existing evidence and interpretations for early mineral use and
metallurgy in the Balkans from the earliest use of copper minerals at c. 6200 BC (Late …

Metal production evidence yielded during the excavation campaigns 2012 and 2013 in
Belovode shows similar characteristic to the samples from the site studied and published …

The analysis of ground and abrasive stone tools from Belovode encompassed an
assemblage of 68 artefacts found in Trench 18, excavated in 2012 and 2013 and relatively …

Miljana Radivojević holds the Archaeomaterials Lectureship at the UCL Institute of
Archaeology (UK), where she graduated in Archaeometallurgy. She has spent more than 20 …