Metallurgy and the Study of Metals
Metal History
Metal history, or archaeometallurgy, is the study of ancient metals, how they were discovered and mined, how the ancient metalworking was developed, and how messing about with metals pushed ancient civilizations into trade and expansionist policies
Arch-Metals Archives
Arch-Metals is an electronic discussion group for the discussion of the historic and prehistoric use of metals, in an archaeological context.
Archaeo-Metallurgical Bibliography
A bibliography of archaeo-metallurgically related articles compiled by Chris Salter and members of the Arch-metals list.
Between East and West: Influence and Change in Coinage
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.
Celtic Fibulae
An introduction to the metallurgy if these pre-Roman and Gallo-Roman metal brooches, from Laurent Tiphaine.
Copper Bibliography
A handful of bibliographic citations on copper metallurgy from your About.com guide.
Determining Geologic Sources of Copper
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.
Historical Metallurgy Society
The Society for Historical Metallurgy produces the journal Historical Metallurgy, and maintains a website on upcoming conferences, members, and bibliographic references.
Metallurgy in Archaeology
English Heritage page on the special circumstances that are required when conducting archaeological investigations with metallurgical elements.
Monte Loreto (Italy)
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.
Military Artifacts of Spanish Florida
A pictorial Internet museum of buttons and other military paraphenalia from 1650-1821.
Numismatics and Computer Science
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.
Metallurgy
Metallurgy is the study of the ancient processes of producing objects made of metal,
The Celtic Coin Index
The online edition of the venerable database, begun in 1960 as a comprehensive index of all Celtic Coins found in Britain.