Von Baden bis Troia

This volume honours Ernst Pernicka for his contributions to the investigation of metals and their socio-cultural aspects. It contains a foreword, a bibliography of the jubilarian, and 21 papers. These deal with resources in prehistoric societies from the perspective of archaeological and archaeometrical research with regard to both material and immaterial aspects. The focus is laid on Central Europe and the Mediterranean in the Copper and Bronze Ages. In detail, there are studies on Czech ore deposits, silver as a means of Copper Age representation, reasons for technological change in south-eastern European metal working, Caucasian gold in the 4th/3rd millennium, the cultural identification with settlements at Lerna and Tiryns as well as technological knowledge in Mediterranean fishery. Further aspects of socio-cultural implication are the introduction of metrical weight systems in the EBA, metallurgical processes on the Balkans and in Anatolia in the Copper Age, the EBA at Aegean and western Anatolian archaeological sites as well as the LBA and EIA in south-eastern Europe and the eastern Alps. A chapter on Troy contains recent research on this site and its role in the 3rd/2nd millennium.