Water Supply and Water Management in the Metal Ages

Proceedings from the 2022 Metal Ages colloquium in Ankara. Topics include water supply and management, copper metallurgy, pottery, and combat techniques, spanning the Chalcolithic to Late Iron Age across Iran to Iberia, with a focus on artefact archaeometry.

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. The publication of these proceedings in their present format was made possible thanks to generous financial support by Valentin de Torres Solanot and E2IN2.

Sponsors Preface: The Importance of Archaeology in the Search for Scientific Evidence to Understand the Past Editors' Foreword Thematic Session: Water Supply and Water Management in the Metal Ages Evidence 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 Benitez de Lugo Enrich and Miguel Mejias Moreno Water supply strategies in the Celtiberian Iron Age: the water strategies in the Baeturia Celtica - Luis Berrocal Rangel, Pablo Paniego and Lucia Ruano General Session: Current Research in the Metal Ages Cathodoluminescence microscopy in cultural heritage: spatial characterization of pottery matrices over firing in earthen wares and stone wares - Mohammadamin Emami, Remy Chapoulie and Majid Montazer Zohouri At the mercy of the waters of the Turkish Euphrates: Tilbes Hoyuk and its possible performance as a regional sanctuary of a goddess during the 2nd-3rd millennia BC in northern Mesopotamia - Jesus Gil Fuensanta and Alfredo Mederos Martin 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-dulo (Northeast Hungary) - Bela Torok, Peter Barkoczy, Nikolett Kovacs and Eszter Fejer Deutschlandsberg-Horbing 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) - Leke 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 sacre avec source du site archeologique de Montagna Vecchia di Corleone (Sicile, Italie) - Angelo Vintaloro An archaeology of gesture? Reconstructing some Iron Age fighting techniques - Guillaume Reich,

Sponsors Preface: The Importance of Archaeology in the Search for Scientific Evidence to Understand the Past

Editors’ Foreword

Thematic Session: Water Supply and Water Management in the Metal Ages

Evidence 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 Ruano

General Session: Current Research in the Metal Ages

Cathodoluminescence 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

Dirk Brandherm is Reader in Prehistory at Queen’s University Belfast and current President of the UISPP’s Metal Ages commission. His research interests are primarily concerned with exploring the dynamics of societal change in later prehistory, particularly in the Chalcolithic and in the Bronze and Iron Ages of Western Europe and the Mediterranean. Thomas Zimmermann graduated from the University of Regensburg, where he completed his studies in Pre- and Protohistory, European Ethnology and Classical Archaeology. For his PhD project on Copper Age daggers he was based at the Romisch-Germanisches Zentralmuseum in Mainz. In 2003, he succumbed to oriental lure and moved to Turkey, where he is currently appointed as Associate Professor at the Department of Archaeology of Bilkent University.

• Edited by Dirk Brandherm
• Edited by Thomas Zimmermann

‘Overall, the book presents some interesting papers and has the merit of bringing to publication, within a relatively short time, part of the contributions of an international conference, which isn’t often the case. … The fact that the book is made available in open access is commendable and follows an established approach of Archeopress, whose brand is also evident in the use of one of its standard layouts, the two-column paging, accurate as usual.’ - Michele Degli Esposti (2025): Rivista di Scienze Preistoriche

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