Outputs (46)

Project Ancient Tin: A short introduction (2023)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Williams, A., & Roberts, B. (2021, September). Project Ancient Tin: A short introduction. Presented at V Festival della Civiltà Nuragica 2021, Orroli, Cagliari, Sardinia, Italy

Booms and Busts in settlement chronologies: creating a new model for the use of Bronze Age settlements in the British Bronze Age (2022)
Book Chapter
Caswell, E., & Roberts, B. (2022). Booms and Busts in settlement chronologies: creating a new model for the use of Bronze Age settlements in the British Bronze Age. In C. Marcigny, T. Lachenal, P. Milcent, C. Mordant, R. Peake, & M. Talon (Eds.), Mesurer le temps à l'âge du Bronze: Journée thématique de l'APRAB, Mar 2020, Saint-Germain-en-Laye, France (157-168). Association pour la Promotion des Recherches sur l'Âge du Bronze

The Salcombe metal cargoes: New light on the provenance and circulation of tin and copper in Later Bronze Age Europe provided by trace elements and isotopes (2022)
Journal Article
Berger, D., Wang, Q., Brügmann, G., Lockhoff, N., Roberts, B., & Pernicka, E. (2022). The Salcombe metal cargoes: New light on the provenance and circulation of tin and copper in Later Bronze Age Europe provided by trace elements and isotopes. Journal of Archaeological Science, 138, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jas.2022.105543

The Rise of Metallurgy in Eurasia: Evolution, Organisation and Consumption of Early Metal in the Balkans (2021)
Book
Radivojević, M., Roberts, B., Marić, M., Kuzmanović-Cvetković, J., & Rehren, T. (2021). The Rise of Metallurgy in Eurasia: Evolution, Organisation and Consumption of Early Metal in the Balkans. Archaeopress. https://doi.org/10.32028/9781803270425

Early Balkan Metallurgy: Origins, Evolution and Society, 6200–3700 BC (2021)
Journal Article
Radivojević, M., & Roberts, B. W. (2021). Early Balkan Metallurgy: Origins, Evolution and Society, 6200–3700 BC. Journal of World Prehistory, 34(2), 195-278. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10963-021-09155-7

This paper analyses and re-evaluates current explanations and interpretations of the origins, development and societal context of metallurgy in the Balkans (c. 6200–3700 BC). The early metallurgy in this region encompasses the production, distributio... Read More about Early Balkan Metallurgy: Origins, Evolution and Society, 6200–3700 BC.

Reassessing Community Cemeteries: Cremation Burials in Britain during the Middle Bronze Age (c. 1600–1150 cal BC) (2018)
Journal Article
Caswell, E., & Roberts, B. (2018). Reassessing Community Cemeteries: Cremation Burials in Britain during the Middle Bronze Age (c. 1600–1150 cal BC). Proceedings of the Prehistoric Society, 84, 329-357. https://doi.org/10.1017/ppr.2018.9

The Middle Bronze Age (c. 1600–1150 cal bc) in Britain is traditionally understood to represent a major funerary transition. This is a transformation from a heterogeneous funerary rite, largely encompassing inhumations and cremations in burial mounds... Read More about Reassessing Community Cemeteries: Cremation Burials in Britain during the Middle Bronze Age (c. 1600–1150 cal BC).

Copper ingots from a probable Bronze Age shipwreck off the coast of Salcombe, Devon: composition and microstructure (2018)
Journal Article
Wang, Q., Strekopytov, S., & Roberts, B. (2018). Copper ingots from a probable Bronze Age shipwreck off the coast of Salcombe, Devon: composition and microstructure. Journal of Archaeological Science, 97, 102-117. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jas.2018.07.002

The seabed site of a probable Bronze Age shipwreck off the coast of Salcombe in south-west England was explored between 1977 and 1982 and from 2004 onwards. Nearly 400 objects including copper and tin ingots, bronze artefacts/fragments and gold ornam... Read More about Copper ingots from a probable Bronze Age shipwreck off the coast of Salcombe, Devon: composition and microstructure.

The Provenance, Use, and Circulation of Metals in the European Bronze Age: The State of Debate (2018)
Journal Article
Radivojević, M., Roberts, B., Pernicka, E., Stos-Gale, Z., Martinón-Torres, M., Rehren, T., Bray, P., Brandherm, D., Ling, J., Mei, J., Vandkilde, H., Kristiansen, K., Shennan, S., & Broodbank, C. (2019). The Provenance, Use, and Circulation of Metals in the European Bronze Age: The State of Debate. Journal of Archaeological Research, 27(2), 131-185. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10814-018-9123-9

Bronze is the defining metal of the European Bronze Age and has been at the center of archaeological and science-based research for well over a century. Archaeometallurgical studies have largely focused on determining the geological origin of the con... Read More about The Provenance, Use, and Circulation of Metals in the European Bronze Age: The State of Debate.

The Ornament Horizon revisited: new and old finds of Middle Bronze Age ornaments in southern England (2017)
Book Chapter
O’Connor, B., Roberts, B., & Wilkin, N. (2017). The Ornament Horizon revisited: new and old finds of Middle Bronze Age ornaments in southern England. In T. Lachenal, C. Mordant, T. Nicolas, & C. Véber (Eds.), Le Bronze moyen et l'origine du Bronze final en Europe occidentale, de la Mer du Nord à la Méditerranée (XVIIe-XIIIe siècle avant notre ère) (267-282). Mémoires d’Archéologie du Grand-Est 1

Funerary fragments between the rivers: analysing the evidence for the dead in the Tyne–Forth region during the Late Bronze Age (c. 1150–800 BC) (2016)
Book Chapter
dead in the Tyne–Forth region during the Late Bronze Age (c. 1150–800 BC). In R. Crellin, C. Fowler, & R. Tipping (Eds.), Prehistory without Borders: Prehistoric Archaeology of the Tyne-Forth Region (156-167). Oxbow