OBSAH:

Guntram Gassmann – Andreas Schäfer
Doubting radiocarbon dating from in-slag charcoal: five thousand years of iron production at Wetzlar-Dalheim?

Vladimir I. Zavyalov – Nataliya N. Terekhova
Two iron technology diffusion routes in Eastern Europe

Evgeny Vodyasov
The early iron metallurgy in the Siberian Arctic

Peter Halkon – Zechariah Jinks-Fredrick
New light on old iron: recent work on Iron Age iron production,consumption and deposition in Britain

Marcin WoŸniak
Milanówek/Falêcin – a settlement of iron-smelters from the Late Antiquity

Robert Janiszewski
Before or after? Stratigraphic relations of Iron Age slag-pit furnacesin the Mazovian Centre of Metallurgy

Szymon Orzechowski
Socio-economic determinants of iron production on Polish lands during antiquity The phenomenon of metallurgical smelting centres of the Przeworsk culture

Béla Török – Zsolt Gallina – Árpád Kovács – Ferenc Kristály
Early medieval iron bloomery centre at Zamárdi (Hungary) Complex archaeometrical examinations of the slags

Mercedes Urteaga – Xabier Alberdi – Iosu Etxezarraga –Fernando Martín Suquía – Mertxe Urkiola – Jose Luis Ugarte
The haizeola and the origins of the ‘Catalan method’ The medieval iron metallurgy culture in the Pyrenees

Pawe³ Madera – Dariusz Kik – Ireneusz Suliga
Slag-pit bloomery furnace of the Tarchalice type. Reconstruction and experimental research

Vladimir I. Zavyalov
Modelling of bloomery processes in a medieval Russian furnace

Ádám Thiele
The manufacturing technology of a pattern-welded knife from Kobiliæ (Republic of Croatia)

Jiøí Hošek – Márk Haramza
Metallographic examination of four 7th–8th century long-blade weapons from Želovce (Slovakia)

Ümit Güder – Cemal Cem Tasan – Alptekin Yavas
Multi-phase microstructures in Anatolian Seljuks iron-steel objects: classification and production techniques