You are here

Home

A Chalcolithic Error: Rebuttal to Amzallag 2009

April 2010 (114.2)
Forum Article

A Chalcolithic Error: Rebuttal to Amzallag 2009

114.2
Christopher P. Thornton
Jonathan Golden
David Killick
Vincent C. Pigott
Thilo Rehren
Benjamin Roberts
Download Article PDF (Open Access)

In the October 2009 issue of the AJA, Amzallag published a hypothesis for the origins and spread of furnace-based metallurgy in the Old World (“From Metallurgy to Bronze Age Civilizations: The Synthetic Theory,” AJA [2009] 497–519). Amzallag’s paper is rife with misunderstandings of both an archaeological and a technical nature, leading to a skewed vision of early metallurgical development. In this rebuttal, we seek to correct some of the more egregious errors in his article and provide a counterargument for the origins of copper-based metallurgy in the Old World.

See Also: 
A Return to the Dark Ages? Reply to Thornton et al. 2010
From Metallurgy to Bronze Age Civilizations: The Synthetic Theory
More articles like this: 
Archaeological Science
Bronze Age
Metallurgy/Metalworking
Prehistory
Near East

A Chalcolithic Error: Rebuttal to Amzallag 2009

By C.P. Thornton, J.M. Golden, D.J. Killick, V.C. Pigott, T.H. Rehren, and B.W. Roberts

American Journal of Archaeology Vol. 114, No. 2 (April 2010), pp. 305–315

DOI: 10.3764/aja.114.2.305

© 2010 Archaeological Institute of America

  • Share

Add new comment

More information about text formats

Plain text

  • Web page addresses and e-mail addresses turn into links automatically.
  • Lines and paragraphs break automatically.
Click "Save" to submit your comment. Please allow some time for your post to be moderated.