IAMS - Institute for Archaeo-Metallurgical Studies

A tremendously successful international conference entitled Mining for Copper: Environment, Culture and Copper in Antiquity was held last week in at Timna Park in southern Israel.

IAMS is proud to offer full financial support for two students to travel and attend the archaeometallurgy conference in honour of the late Professor Beno Rothenberg, which will take place in Timna, Israel, April 22-25 2013.

Two of our members have recently presented papers at the Metals and Colour themed Conference of The British Association for Near Eastern Archaeology held in Cambridge between the 3rd and 5th of January 2013.

IAMS would like to congratulate our three newest PhD graduates in metallurgy from UCL's Institute of Archaeology: Dr. Wenli Zhou, Dr. Miljana Radivojević, and Dr. Thomas Thondhlana.

IAMS is happy to report that we have just completed yet another highly successful summer school! We had a great turnout by many enthusiastic students up a peak of 25 attendees, we are overjoyed to see that the discipline of archaeometallurgy still holds great interest to so many.

A large contingent of UCL students and lecturers have recently participated in the International Symposium on Archaeometry, and, as usual, IAMS provided funding to several students to present papers and posters on archaeometallurgy.

Fourteen UCL students have recently participated in a course on the archaeometallurgy of Cyprus hosted by the NARNIA project in Nicosia.

It is with great sadness that IAMS announces the passing of the Institute's founder and greatest contributor, Professor Beno Rothenberg, on the 13th of March at the age of 98.

As part of the training for UCL's graduate students, IAMS has recently hosted a short two-day course on metallography taught by Eleanor Blakelock.

A new year, a new crop of graduate students have arrived at the Institute of Archaeology. As usual, a few promising scholars in archaeo-metallurgy have received funding from IAMS.

As part of the effort to bring the Institute of Archaeo-Metallurgy up-to-date, we are now launching this new website along with all past journals and many additional resources.