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SUMMARY:A Match Made in Heaven: Materials Science and Archaeology in the s
 tudies of Invention and Innovation of the Earliest Eurasian Metallurgy - D
 r. Miljana Radivojevic. Anniversary Research Fellow\, McDonald Institute f
 or Archaeological Research
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CONTACT:Ismael Moreno-Gomez
DESCRIPTION:The invention of pyrotechnologies able to create new materials
  such as ceramics\, metals\, glazes and glass remains a scholarly obsessio
 n as well as a fundamental building block in regional and global archaeolo
 gical narratives. Pyrometallurgy in particular attracted scholarly attenti
 on as the first transformative technology of the human past. The recogniti
 on of the fact that the metal extracted from ores in no way resembled its 
 original source material increased humanity's understanding of the surroun
 ding environment\, and consequently\, dramatically developed the ability t
 o manipulate it. The c. 7000 years old evidence for copper smelting from B
 elovode\, a Vinča culture settlement in eastern Serbia opened new avenue
 s in pursuing the origins of Eurasian metallurgy at a location remote from
  the Near East\, a traditional heartland of metallurgy. The “how and why
 ” of this invention is investigated through microstructure\, composition
  and provenance analyses of a selection of copper minerals and metal produ
 ction evidence: ores\, slags\, slagged sherds and metal droplets recovered
  from seven settlements in Serbia and Bosnia and Herzegovina\, altogether 
 spanning from the late 7th to the late 5th millennium BC.
LOCATION:Department of Materials Science and Metallurgy\, 27 Charles Babba
 ge Road\, Cambridge. CB3 0FS
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