Treasures are displayed as part of the The Staffordshire Hoard, the UK's largest collection of Anglo Saxon treasure ever found, at Birmingham Museum on September 24, 2009 in Birmingham, England. The haul of over 1,500 gold and silver pieces artefacts were found in a field by metal detector enthusiast Terry Herbert. The collection is unparalleled in it's historic importance
Copper is one of the first of the metals worked by our ancient ancestors. Here's a brief bibliography on archaeological studies of ancient copper.
This little book out of the University at Minnesota of Duluth's Archaeometry Laboratory describes in a step-by-step fashion the authors' 25-year-long study to attempt to identify the source of copper used by Native Americans to make tools and decorative items.
The University of Bradford has a metallurgy research department with faculty and student projects on tin and iron smelting, and other related topics.
Arch-Metals is an electronic discussion group for the discussion of the historic and prehistoric use of metals, in an archaeological context.
A bibliography of archaeo-metallurgically related articles compiled by Chris Salter and members of the Arch-metals list.
From the Fitzwilliam Museum, an online exhibition explores the impact that Western concepts of money have had upon Asia in particular, from the time of Alexander the Great and before, up to the post-colonial and modern coinages of the present day.
An introduction to the metallurgy if these pre-Roman and Gallo-Roman metal brooches, from Laurent Tiphaine.
A handful of bibliographic citations on copper metallurgy from your About.com guide.
A review of University at Minnesota of Duluth's Archaeometry Laboratory book describing their attempt to identify the source of copper used by Native Americans to make tools and decorative items.
The Society for Historical Metallurgy produces the journal Historical Metallurgy, and maintains a website on upcoming conferences, members, and bibliographic references.
Review of a documentary film on ethnoarchaeological studies of the metallurgy of iron smelting in Africa.
English Heritage page on the special circumstances that are required when conducting archaeological investigations with metallurgical elements.
Metallurgy is the study of the ancient processes of producing objects made of metal,
A pictorial Internet museum of buttons and other military paraphenalia from 1650-1821.
The copper mines in the valleys and side walls of Monte Loreto in the Liguria region of Italy are some of the earliest known copper mines in the Iberian peninsula, and a focus of the investigation of metallurgy.
A new project to develop a tool for computer analysis of archaeological coins. From a group of graduate students run by Magali Vacherot at the University of Paris.
The online edition of the venerable database, begun in 1960 as a comprehensive index of all Celtic Coins found in Britain.
