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Core team
Sabine Klein
Forschungsbereich Archäometallurgie, Leibniz-Forschungsmuseum für Georessourcen/Deutsches Bergbau-Museum Bochum, Bochum, Germany
Institut für Archäologische Wissenschaften, Ruhr-Universität Bochum, Bochum, Germany
FIERCE, Frankfurt Isotope & Element Research Centre, Goethe Universität, Frankfurt am Main, Germany
Helge Wiethoff
Rechenzentrum, Technische Hochschule Georg Agricola, Bochum, Germany
Thomas Rose
Forschungsbereich Archäometallurgie, Leibniz-Forschungsmuseum für Georessourcen/Deutsches Bergbau-Museum Bochum, Bochum, Germany
Tim Greifelt
Forschungsbereich Archäometallurgie, Leibniz-Forschungsmuseum für Georessourcen/Deutsches Bergbau-Museum Bochum, Bochum, Germany
Katrin J. Westner
Forschungsbereich Archäometallurgie, Leibniz-Forschungsmuseum für Georessourcen/Deutsches Bergbau-Museum Bochum, Bochum, Germany
Yiu-Kang (Gary) Hsu
Forschungsbereich Archäometallurgie, Leibniz-Forschungsmuseum für Georessourcen/Deutsches Bergbau-Museum Bochum, Bochum, Germany
Annette Hornschuch
Forschungsbereich Montanarchäologie, Leibniz-Forschungsmuseum für Georessourcen/Deutsches Bergbau-Museum Bochum, Bochum, Germany
CONICET (Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas) - División Arqueología, Museo de La Plata, Facultad de Ciencias Naturales y Museo, Universidad Nacional de La Plata, Argentina
Editor for South America
Meghna Desai
Science and Technology in Archaeology and Culture Research Center (STARC), The Cyprus Institute, Nicosia, Cyprus
Editor for India
Thomas R. Fenn
Department of Anthropology, University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK, USA
Editor for South Asia and North Africa
Siran Liu
Institute for Cultural Heritage and History of Science & Technology, University of Science and Technology Beijing, China
Editor for China
Nima Nezafati
Forschungsbereich Archäometallurgie, Leibniz-Forschungsmuseum für Georessourcen/Deutsches Bergbau-Museum Bochum, Bochum, Germany
Editor for Iran
T. O. Pryce
Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, UMR 7065 Institut de Recherche sur les ArchéoMATériaux, Université Paris-Saclay & CEA/CNRS UMR 3685 NIMBE, 91191 Gif-sur-Yvette, France
Editor for Southeast Asia
Virginie Renson
Archaeometry Laboratory, Research Reactor Center, University of Missouri, Columbia, MO, USA
Editor for North America
Jay Stephens
Archaeometry Laboratory, Research Reactor Center, University of Missouri, Columbia, MO, USA
Editor for Africa
Material Editors
Andrea Acevedo Mejía
Austrian Archaeological Institute, Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna, Austria
Editor for pigments
Laure Dussubieux
Field Museum, Chicago, IL, USA
Editor for glass
Thomas R. Fenn
Department of Anthropology, University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK, USA
Editor for glass
Maxime L’Héritier
University of Paris 8, Paris, France
Editor for lead items
T. O. Pryce
Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, UMR 7065 Institut de Recherche sur les ArchéoMATériaux, Université Paris-Saclay & CEA/CNRS UMR 3685 NIMBE, 91191 Gif-sur-Yvette, France
Editor for copper items
Frederik Rademakers
Department of Scientific Research, British Museum, London, United Kingdom
Editor for copper items
Alexandra Rodler-Rørbo
Austrian Archaeological Institute, Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna, Austria
Editor for pigments
Alicia Van Ham-Meert
FNRS researcher CReA-patrimoine and 4MAT, Université Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium
Editor for glass
David Wigg-Wolf
Römisch-Germanische Kommission des Deutschen Archäologischen Instituts, Frankfurt, Germany
Editor for coins
Grzegorz Żabiński
Institute of History, Jan Długosz University in Częstochowa, Częstochowa, Poland
Daniel M. Finn (The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel )
Partners
Deutsches Bergbau-Museum Bochum
The Deutsches Bergbau-Museum Bochum – founded in 1930 – is one of eight research museums belonging to the Leibniz Association. It researches, teaches and preserves the history of the mining, processing and use of geo-resources across all of the relevant time periods. Its research areas include: archaeometallurgy, mining history, materials science, and mining archaeology, together with the research laboratory, and the Montanhistorische Dokumentationszentrum.
DMT-Gesellschaft für Lehre und Bildung mbH
The DMT-Gesellschaft für Lehre und Bildung mbH, based in Bochum, is a collective association of the German coal mining industry and acts as the funding organisation of Deutsches Bergbau-Museum Bochum (German Mining Museum) and Technische Hochschule Georg Agricola. It was established as the Westfälische Berggewerkschaftskasse (WBK) in 1864 and merged with the Steinkohlen-Bergbau-Verein (Stbv) and Bergbau Forschung GmbH under the auspices of DeutscheMontanTechnologie e.V. (DMT) in 1990.
Funding
This work has received funding from the German Research Foundation (DFG) through the grants KL 1259/17-1 and WI 5923/2-1 (project number: 524790825).
