Managing Editors

A M Pollard

Research Laboratory for Archaeology & the History of Art, Dyson Perrins Building, South Parks Road,Oxford OX1 3QY, UK

I Reiche

Rathgen Research Laboratory, National Museums in Berlin, Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation, Scholosstr. 1a. 14059 Berlin, Germany

M Walton

SAS Managing Editor,Research Associate Professor of Materials Science and Art History Northwestern University / Art Institute of Chicago Center for Scientific Studies in the Arts (NU-ACCESS) 2145 Sheridan Road, Tech K111 Evanston, Il 60208, USA

C Batt

Archaeological Sciences, School of Life Sciences, University of Bradford, Bradford, West Yorkshire, BD7 1DP, UK

G Aritoli

 Dipartimento di Mineralogia e Petrologia, Universita' degli Studi di Padova, Corso Garibaldi 37, I-35137 Padova, Italy

Editorial Coordinator

S Bowring

Research Laboratory for Archaeology & the History of Art, Dyson Perrins Building, South Parks Road,Oxford OX1 3QY, UK

Editorial Board

M Balasse,

Chargé Recherche au CNRS, UMR 5197, Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle, USM 0303 Dept. Ecologie et Gestion de la Biodiversité, Archéozoologie, Histoire des Sociétés humaines et des Peuplements animaux, Case postale 56 (Bâtiments d'Anatomie Comparée), 55 rue Buffon, 75231 Paris Cedex 05, France

M Baxter,

Division of Physics and Mathematical Sciences, School of Biomedical and Natural Sciences, Nottingham Trent University, Clifton Campus, Nottingham NG11, 8NS, UK

J Burger,

Institut für Anthropologie, Universität Mainz, Colonel Kleinmann-Weg 2, D-55099 Mainz, Germany

J Buxeda i Garrigos,

ARQ|UB (Cultura Material i Arqueometria UB), Dept. de Prehistoria, Historia Antiga i Arqueologia, Universitat de Barcelona, C/ de Montalegre, 6, 08001 BARCELONA (Catalonia, Spain)

M P Colombini,

Dipartimento di Chimica e Chimica Industriale, Universià di Pisa, ia Risorgimento 35, 56126 Pisa, Italy

G Duller,

Institute of Geography and Earth Sciences, University of Wales, Aberystwyth, Llandinam Building, Penglais Campus, Aberystwyth, Ceredigion SY23 3DB

R Evershed,

School of Chemistry, Environmental & Analytical Section, University of Bristol, Cantock Close, Bristol BS8 1TS, UK

I Freestone,

School of History and Archaeology, Cardiff University, PO Box 999, Cardiff CF10 3XU, UK

M Glascock,

Missouri University Research Reactor, University of Missouri, Columbia, MO 65211, USA

C Gosden,

Institute of Archaeology, University of Oxford, 36 Beaumont Street, Oxford OX1 2PG, UK

S Greiff,

Römisch-Germanisches Zentralmuseum, Ernst-Ludwig-Platz 2, D-55116 Mainz, Germany

G Grupe,

Staatssammlung fuer Anthropologie und Palaeoanatomie Muenchen, (State Collection of Anthropology and Palaeoanatomy Munich), Karolinenplatz 2a D-80333 Muenchen (Munich Germany)

M Guerra

Centre de Recherche et de Restauration des Musées de France (C2RFM), UMR 171 CNRS, Palais du Louvre - Porte des Lions - 14 quai François Mitterrand, 75001 Paris - France

C Heron,

Department of Archaeological Sciences, University of Bradford, Bradford, West Yorkshire BD7 1DP, UK

H Kars,

Institute for Geo and Bioarchaeology, IGBA, Faculty of Earth and Life Sciences, Vrije Universiteit, De Boelelaan 1085, 1081 HV Amsterdam, The Netherlands

B Kromer,

Forschungsstelle Radiometrie, Institut für Umweltphysik, Im Neuenheimer Feld 229, D-69120 Heidelberg, Germany

J Lee-Thorp,

Department of Archaeological Sciences, University of Bradford, Bradford, West Yorkshire, BD7 1DP, UK

Y Maniatis,

Laboratory of Archaeometry, Institute of Materials Science, NCSR "Demokritos", 153 10 Ag. Paraskevi, Attikis, Greece

M Martini,

AIAr Managing Editor, INFM and Università di Milano-Bicocca, Dipartimento di Scienza dei Materiali, Via Cozzi 53, 30125 Milano, Italy

J Mei,

Institute of Historical Metallurgy and Materials, University of Science and Technology Beijing, 30 Xueyuan Road Beijing, 100083, P. R. China

W Middleton,

Department of Sociology and Anthropology, Rochester Institute of Technology, 18 Lomb Memorial Drive, Rochester NY, 14623-5604, USA

P Mirti,

Dipartimento di Chimica analitica, Universita di Torino, Via Giuria 5, I-10125 Torino, Italy

T O'Connell,

McDonald Institute of Archaeological Research, University of Cambridge, Downing Street, Cambridge CB2 3ER, UK

S Siano,

Istituto di Fisica Applicata "Nello Carrara"- CNR Sede staccata Elettronica, quantistica Via Madonna del Piano (edificio C), 50019 Sesto Fiorentino (FI), Italy

I M Turbanti,

Dipartimento di Scienze della Terra, Università di Siena, via Laterina 8, 53100 Siena, Italy

M Vendrell,

Dept. Crystalography and Mineralogy, University of Barcelona, C/ Martí i Franquès, s/n Barcelona 08028 (Spain)

S Wisseman,

Program on Ancient Technologies and Archaeological Materials, University of Illinois - Urbana-Champaign IL, USA

Honorary Advisory Editor

M S Tite, Oxford