Pare C.F.E. (ed.) Metals Make The World Go Round. The Supply and Circulation of Metals in Bronze Age Europe

Proceedings of a conference held at the University of Birmingham in June 1997. — Oxbow Books, 2000. — 279 p. — 978-1-84217-019-9.This collection of eighteen papers, presented at a conference held at the University of Birmingham in 1997, analyses the production and use of metals and metal objects across western and eastern Europe.Bronze and the Bronze Age (Christopher Pare).
The circulation of copper in the Early Bronze Age in mainland Greece: the Lead Isotope evidence from Lerna, Lithares and Tsoungiza (Maria Kayafa, Sophie Stos-Gale & Noel Gale).
Trade in metals in the Bronze Age Mediterranean: an overview of Lead Isotope data for provenance studies (Sophie Stos-Gale).
'Buried' metal in Late Мinоаn inheritance customs (Evanthia Baboula).
Circulation of metals and the end of the Bronze Age in the Eastern Mediterranean (Susan Sherratt).
Sicilian hoards and protohistoric metal trade in the Central West Mediterranean (Claudio Giardino).
Metals make the world go round: the copper supply for Frattesina (Mark Pearce).
Metallurgy and social dynamics in the later prehistory of Mediterranean Spain (Margarita Diaz-Andreu & Ignacio Montero).
Patronage and clientship; a model for the Atlantic Final Bronze Age in the Iberian Peninsula (Richard Harrison & Alfredo Mederos Martin).
Mining, processing and distribution of bronze: reflections on the organisation of metal supply between the northern Alps and the Danube region (Stefan Winghart).
Rent asunder: ritual violence in Late Bronze Age hoards (Louis Nebelsick).
Metal circulation, communication and traditions of craftsmanship in Late Bronze Age and Early Iron Age Europe (Christoph Huth).
Hoarding and the circulation of metalwork in Late Bronze Age Denmark: quantification and beyond (Koen Verlaeckt).
Late Bronze Age axe hoards in western and northern Europe (Regine Maraszek).
Value and exchange of bronzes in the Baltic area and in north-east Europe (Andrzej Pydyn).
Introduction to weight systems in the Bronze Age East Mediterranean: the case of Kalavasos-Ayios Dhimitrios (Hanne Lassen).
The balance weights from the Late Bronze Age shipwreck at Uluburun (Cemal Pulak).
Weight systems and exchange networks in Bronze Age Europe (Marisa Ruiz-Gálvez).