Brandherm Dirk, Zimmermann Thomas (Eds.). Water Supply and Water Management in the Metal Ages

Archaeopress, 2024. — 162 p. — (Union Internationale des Sciences Préhistoriques et Protohistoriques).Proceedings from the UISPP Metal Ages colloquium, 13–16 October 2022, Ankara (Türkiye)Water Supply and Water Management in the Metal Ages gathers papers originally presented at the Metal Ages 2022 colloquium, hosted by the Archaeology Department of Bilkent University, Ankara and bringing together the UISPP’s Scientific Commissions ‘Metal Ages in Europe and the Mediterranean’ and ‘Archaeometry of Prehistoric and Protohistoric Inorganic Artefacts, Materials and their Technologies’ for their respective annual meetings.
Five of the papers included here focus specifically on water supply and water management. Others cover copper metallurgy, pottery studies and fighting techniques, and overall they range chronologically from the Chalcolithic to the Late Iron Age, and geographically from Iran to Iberia. A significant number of papers cover topics focusing on artefact archaeometry, due to the participation in the Ankara colloquium of many colleagues from the UISPP’s Archaeometry commission.Thematic Session: Water Supply and Water Management in the Metal AgesEvidence for roof drainage at the Early Bronze Age site of Dhaskalio, Cyclades – Marie Floquet, Michael J. Boyd and Colin Renfrew
Water management at Pseira, Crete, in the Late Bronze Age- Susan C. Ferrence, Alessandra Giumlia-Mair and Philip P. Betancourt
Los Millares – Water supply and water management of a Copper Age fortification in Andalusia – Anorte Elisabeth Jakowski
The Motilla culture: a hydraulic culture facing the challenge of the 4.2 ka cal BP climate event – Luis Benítez de Lugo Enrich and Miguel Mejías Moreno
Water supply strategies in the Celtiberian Iron Age: the water strategies in the Baeturia Celtica – Luis Berrocal Rangel, Pablo Paniego and Lucía RuanoGeneral Session: Current Research in the Metal AgesCathodoluminescence microscopy in cultural heritage: spatial characterization of pottery matrices over firing in earthen wares and stone wares – Mohammadamin Emami, Rémy Chapoulie and Majid Montazer Zohouri
At the mercy of the waters of the Turkish Euphrates: Tilbes Höyük and its possible performance as a regional sanctuary of a goddess during the 2nd–3rd millennia BC in northern Mesopotamia – Jesús Gil Fuensanta and Alfredo Mederos Martín
Agia Varvara-Almyras: an Iron Age copper smelting site in Cyprus – Walter Fasnacht and Christina Peege
Arsenic at the Chrysokamino smelting site – Philip P. Betancourt
Preliminary report on the archaeological and archaeometallurgical analysis of a Late Bronze Age hoard from Vatta-Telekoldal-dűlő (Northeast Hungary) – Béla Török, Péter Barkóczy, Nikolett Kovács and Eszter Fejér
Deutschlandsberg-Hörbing and multi-period settlements at the edge of the eastern Alps – current research on the Bronze Age in western Styria – Florian Mauthner and Valentina Vidoz
Typological examination of Middle and Final Bronze Age (1625–800 BC) pottery from the Eremita Cave in Borgosesia (Vercelli, Italy) – Lekë Shala, Eve Derenne and Marie Besse
Petrographic study of Middle and Final Bronze Age (1625–800 BC) pottery from Eremita Cave (Borgosesia, Vercelli, Italy): inferences on pottery production and exploitation of natural resources – Kaltrina Igrishta, Delia Carloni and Marie Besse
Sentier sacré avec source du site archéologique de Montagna Vecchia di Corleone (Sicile, Italie) – Angelo Vintaloro
An archaeology of gesture? Reconstructing some Iron Age fighting techniques – Guillaume Reich