D Killick
Biographic Data
| ID | 37545 |
|---|---|
| NAME | D Killick |
| GIVEN NAMES | D |
| FAMILY NAME | Killick |
| SIGNATURE | KILLICK D |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Arizona |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-8964-750X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 28 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 177 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 28 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1979 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 8 |
Isotopic and chemical evidence for long-distance trade of copper and tin into east-central Botswana, c. cal. AD 800–1650
The sites of Bosutswe, Khubu la Dintša and Lose in east-central Botswana provide evidence of the presence of an élite (marked by the use of Lose pottery) among commoners (marked by other pottery traditions). Prior work by Denbow and Miller (2007) noted evidence of bronze at Bosutswe. This paper extends their work by inferring the provenance of copper and tin at these three sites, using chemistry, lead isotopes and tin isotopes. Copper came from a…
Complementary Use of Lead Isotopes, Tin Isotopes, and Trace Elements to Infer the Sources of Tin in Bronzes from Southern Africa, ca. 1200–1800 CE
The Central Cemetery at Ingombe Ilede, Zambia: Chronology and Connections
Ingombe Ilede is located just north of the Zambezi River, and has often been seen as a trading station connected to Central Africa, the Zimbabwe Plateau and the Indian Ocean. Discussion of the richly appointed burials in its Central Cemetery has been hindered by uncertainty over their ages. In this article, we report four new radiocarbon dates from Ingombe Ilede and six new dates from sites in northern Zimbabwe that are relevant to a wider unders…
Mixed lead sources in tin metal: Implications for using lead isotopes to study tin artifacts
Global commodities in precolonial Southern Africa: Local Concepts and Global Conversations
Copper smelting and refining in the Pampa de Chaparrí, Lambayeque, Peru, ca. 1030–1180 cal AD
Use of non-traditional heavy stable isotopes in archaeological research
Long-distance Lapita pottery transfers and ancient social relationships: A case study from the St. Maurice-Vatcha (KVO003) Lapita site on Île des Pins, New Caledonia (Southern Melanesia)
Geological constraints on the use of lead isotopes for provenance in archaeometallurgy
The first part of this paper is a brief critical history of the use of Pb isotopes for inferring the geological provenance of archaeological materials, with an emphasis on non‐ferrous metals. The second part examines variation in the Pb isotopic ratios of oxide and sulphide ore minerals in selected regions of the world, and relates these to the geological histories of ore formation in each region. This exercise shows that in regions where most or…
The Manaledi Clay Mine: A ca. 1500 Year-Long Record of Potting from a Single Clay Source in the Tswapong Hills, Eastern Botswana
Current potters in Manaledi village in the Tswapong Hills of Botswana aver that they and their ancestors for five generations have made pottery exclusively with clay from nearby sources. We begin with an examination of Manaledi and its clay mine to uncover current dialectics between village, landscape, clay, potters, and ancestors. Archaeological sherds found around the village and clay sources document occupation by makers of Early Iron Age (ca.…
Lead isotope and metal source of Shang bronzes: A response to Sun et al .’s comments
In this brief response to Sun et al.’s ( ) comments on our paper, we re‐emphasize that archaeological, chemical and isotopic evidence are all relevant to the discussion about the metal source of the Shang period with highly radiogenic lead isotope ratios. The southern African bronzes have much lower lead contents and quite different lead isotopic signatures than the Shang bronzes. More importantly, there was no metallurgy of any kind in southern …
Exploring operational chains and technological styles in the production of domestic polished wares from San Pedro de Atacama, Chile
Lead isotope ratios of Pueblo I lead-glazed ceramics and galena from Colorado and Pueblo II galena from Chaco Canyon, New Mexico
Did China Import Metals from Africa in the Bronze Age
The origins of the copper, tin and lead for China's rich Bronze Age cultures are a major topic in archaeological research, with significant contributions being made by archaeological fieldwork, archaeometallurgical investigations and geochemical considerations. Here, we investigate a recent claim that the greater part of the Shang‐period metalwork was made using metals from Africa, imported together with the necessary know‐how to produce tin bron…
Canyon Creek revisited: New investigations of a late prehispanic turquoise mine, Arizona, USA
Diabase Temper as a Marker for Laguna Ceramics
The Western Keresan area consists of the present-day Pueblos of Laguna and Acoma. In the 1950s, Florence Hawley Ellis proposed that a high proportion of Laguna ceramics could be distinguished from the ceramics produced by Acoma and other population centers by the frequent use of diabase temper. We conducted a petrographic analysis of 51 ceramic sherds designed to test the veracity of this association. Historic period sherds from culinary and deco…
A Chalcolithic Error: Rebuttal to Amzallag 2009
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 eg…
The social geography of pottery in Botswana as reconstructed by optical petrography
Over the last 30 years Wilmsen and Denbow have recovered and studied pottery from 28 sites in Botswana dated between ca cal AD 200 and AD 1885. Some sherds in several of these assemblages appear, on stylistic evidence, to have been made in other sub-regions of Botswana than where they were found. These inferences are confirmed in this paper by use of an independent archaeometric technique, optical petrography. We are able to demonstrate the trans…
Cairo to Cape: The Spread of Metallurgy Through Eastern and Southern Africa
Slag Identification at Southern African Archaeological Sites
nents of southern African Iron Age sites. Their correct identification is crucial to understanding technological processes performed at these sites. This paper presents criteria for distinguishing between iron smelting slags, iron forging slags, copper smelting slags, crucible slags resulting from melting activities, vitrified clay and various biomass materials. Slag identification should entail a combination of morphology, microscopic study, che…
What Do We Know About African Iron Working
On the value of mixed methods in studying mining communities
As Bernard Knapp notes in his introduction to this volume, mining should feature prominently in historical studies because of the central role that metals and fossil fuels have played in the development of industrial societies. Over the past five thousand years literally millions of people have lived, labored (often involuntarily) and died in mining settlements, while the quest for new sources of metals and minerals has been a major motive for ex…
Technology and Social Agency: Outlining a Practice Theory for Archaeology:Technology and Social Agency: Outlining a Practice Theory for Archaeology
Technology and Social Agency: Outlining a Practice Theory for Archaeology
Technology and Social Agency: Outlining. Practice Theory for Archaeology. Marcia-Anne Dobres. Maiden, MA: Blackwell Publishers, 2000.300 pp
A Study of Iron Smelting at Lopanzo, Equateur Province, Zaıre
The social geography of pottery in Botswana as reconstructed by optical petrography
Over the last 30 years Wilmsen and Denbow have recovered and studied pottery from 28 sites in Botswana dated between ca cal AD 200 and AD 1885. Some sherds in several of these assemblages appear, on stylistic evidence, to have been made in other sub-regions of Botswana than where they were found. These inferences are confirmed in this paper by use of an independent archaeometric technique, optical petrography. We are able to demonstrate the trans…
Geological constraints on the use of lead isotopes for provenance in archaeometallurgy
The first part of this paper is a brief critical history of the use of Pb isotopes for inferring the geological provenance of archaeological materials, with an emphasis on non‐ferrous metals. The second part examines variation in the Pb isotopic ratios of oxide and sulphide ore minerals in selected regions of the world, and relates these to the geological histories of ore formation in each region. This exercise shows that in regions where most or…
Cairo to Cape: The Spread of Metallurgy Through Eastern and Southern Africa
Slag Identification at Southern African Archaeological Sites
nents of southern African Iron Age sites. Their correct identification is crucial to understanding technological processes performed at these sites. This paper presents criteria for distinguishing between iron smelting slags, iron forging slags, copper smelting slags, crucible slags resulting from melting activities, vitrified clay and various biomass materials. Slag identification should entail a combination of morphology, microscopic study, che…
What Do We Know About African Iron Working
Did China Import Metals from Africa in the Bronze Age
The origins of the copper, tin and lead for China's rich Bronze Age cultures are a major topic in archaeological research, with significant contributions being made by archaeological fieldwork, archaeometallurgical investigations and geochemical considerations. Here, we investigate a recent claim that the greater part of the Shang‐period metalwork was made using metals from Africa, imported together with the necessary know‐how to produce tin bron…
Adaptation of Technology to Culture and Environment: Bloomery Iron Smelting in America and Africa
Etude comparative des techniques et des installations metallurgiques du 19eme siecle aux Etats-Unis et au Malawi.Pour l'A., une telle etude permet de mieux cerner l'inter-relation entre la technologie et la culture dans une societe
A Chalcolithic Error: Rebuttal to Amzallag 2009
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 eg…
Mixed lead sources in tin metal: Implications for using lead isotopes to study tin artifacts
Global commodities in precolonial Southern Africa: Local Concepts and Global Conversations
Use of non-traditional heavy stable isotopes in archaeological research
Lead isotope ratios of Pueblo I lead-glazed ceramics and galena from Colorado and Pueblo II galena from Chaco Canyon, New Mexico
Canyon Creek revisited: New investigations of a late prehispanic turquoise mine, Arizona, USA
Technology and Social Agency: Outlining a Practice Theory for Archaeology
Technology and Social Agency: Outlining. Practice Theory for Archaeology. Marcia-Anne Dobres. Maiden, MA: Blackwell Publishers, 2000.300 pp
A Study of Iron Smelting at Lopanzo, Equateur Province, Zaıre
Copper smelting and refining in the Pampa de Chaparrí, Lambayeque, Peru, ca. 1030–1180 cal AD
The Manaledi Clay Mine: A ca. 1500 Year-Long Record of Potting from a Single Clay Source in the Tswapong Hills, Eastern Botswana
Current potters in Manaledi village in the Tswapong Hills of Botswana aver that they and their ancestors for five generations have made pottery exclusively with clay from nearby sources. We begin with an examination of Manaledi and its clay mine to uncover current dialectics between village, landscape, clay, potters, and ancestors. Archaeological sherds found around the village and clay sources document occupation by makers of Early Iron Age (ca.…
Exploring operational chains and technological styles in the production of domestic polished wares from San Pedro de Atacama, Chile
Square: An Iron Smelting Site near Phalaborwa
Appendix A by David J. Killick
Adaptation of Technology to Culture and Environment: Bloomery Iron Smelting in America and Africa
Etude comparative des techniques et des installations metallurgiques du 19eme siecle aux Etats-Unis et au Malawi.Pour l'A., une telle etude permet de mieux cerner l'inter-relation entre la technologie et la culture dans une societe
A Study of Iron Smelting at Lopanzo, Equateur Province, Zaıre
On the value of mixed methods in studying mining communities
As Bernard Knapp notes in his introduction to this volume, mining should feature prominently in historical studies because of the central role that metals and fossil fuels have played in the development of industrial societies. Over the past five thousand years literally millions of people have lived, labored (often involuntarily) and died in mining settlements, while the quest for new sources of metals and minerals has been a major motive for ex…
Technology and Social Agency: Outlining a Practice Theory for Archaeology:Technology and Social Agency: Outlining a Practice Theory for Archaeology
Technology and Social Agency: Outlining a Practice Theory for Archaeology
Technology and Social Agency: Outlining. Practice Theory for Archaeology. Marcia-Anne Dobres. Maiden, MA: Blackwell Publishers, 2000.300 pp
Slag Identification at Southern African Archaeological Sites
nents of southern African Iron Age sites. Their correct identification is crucial to understanding technological processes performed at these sites. This paper presents criteria for distinguishing between iron smelting slags, iron forging slags, copper smelting slags, crucible slags resulting from melting activities, vitrified clay and various biomass materials. Slag identification should entail a combination of morphology, microscopic study, che…
What Do We Know About African Iron Working
The social geography of pottery in Botswana as reconstructed by optical petrography
Over the last 30 years Wilmsen and Denbow have recovered and studied pottery from 28 sites in Botswana dated between ca cal AD 200 and AD 1885. Some sherds in several of these assemblages appear, on stylistic evidence, to have been made in other sub-regions of Botswana than where they were found. These inferences are confirmed in this paper by use of an independent archaeometric technique, optical petrography. We are able to demonstrate the trans…
Cairo to Cape: The Spread of Metallurgy Through Eastern and Southern Africa
A Chalcolithic Error: Rebuttal to Amzallag 2009
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 eg…
Diabase Temper as a Marker for Laguna Ceramics
The Western Keresan area consists of the present-day Pueblos of Laguna and Acoma. In the 1950s, Florence Hawley Ellis proposed that a high proportion of Laguna ceramics could be distinguished from the ceramics produced by Acoma and other population centers by the frequent use of diabase temper. We conducted a petrographic analysis of 51 ceramic sherds designed to test the veracity of this association. Historic period sherds from culinary and deco…
Canyon Creek revisited: New investigations of a late prehispanic turquoise mine, Arizona, USA
Lead isotope and metal source of Shang bronzes: A response to Sun et al .’s comments
In this brief response to Sun et al.’s ( ) comments on our paper, we re‐emphasize that archaeological, chemical and isotopic evidence are all relevant to the discussion about the metal source of the Shang period with highly radiogenic lead isotope ratios. The southern African bronzes have much lower lead contents and quite different lead isotopic signatures than the Shang bronzes. More importantly, there was no metallurgy of any kind in southern …
Exploring operational chains and technological styles in the production of domestic polished wares from San Pedro de Atacama, Chile
Lead isotope ratios of Pueblo I lead-glazed ceramics and galena from Colorado and Pueblo II galena from Chaco Canyon, New Mexico
Did China Import Metals from Africa in the Bronze Age
The origins of the copper, tin and lead for China's rich Bronze Age cultures are a major topic in archaeological research, with significant contributions being made by archaeological fieldwork, archaeometallurgical investigations and geochemical considerations. Here, we investigate a recent claim that the greater part of the Shang‐period metalwork was made using metals from Africa, imported together with the necessary know‐how to produce tin bron…
The Manaledi Clay Mine: A ca. 1500 Year-Long Record of Potting from a Single Clay Source in the Tswapong Hills, Eastern Botswana
Current potters in Manaledi village in the Tswapong Hills of Botswana aver that they and their ancestors for five generations have made pottery exclusively with clay from nearby sources. We begin with an examination of Manaledi and its clay mine to uncover current dialectics between village, landscape, clay, potters, and ancestors. Archaeological sherds found around the village and clay sources document occupation by makers of Early Iron Age (ca.…
Long-distance Lapita pottery transfers and ancient social relationships: A case study from the St. Maurice-Vatcha (KVO003) Lapita site on Île des Pins, New Caledonia (Southern Melanesia)
Geological constraints on the use of lead isotopes for provenance in archaeometallurgy
The first part of this paper is a brief critical history of the use of Pb isotopes for inferring the geological provenance of archaeological materials, with an emphasis on non‐ferrous metals. The second part examines variation in the Pb isotopic ratios of oxide and sulphide ore minerals in selected regions of the world, and relates these to the geological histories of ore formation in each region. This exercise shows that in regions where most or…
Use of non-traditional heavy stable isotopes in archaeological research
Copper smelting and refining in the Pampa de Chaparrí, Lambayeque, Peru, ca. 1030–1180 cal AD
Global commodities in precolonial Southern Africa: Local Concepts and Global Conversations
Mixed lead sources in tin metal: Implications for using lead isotopes to study tin artifacts
Archaeology (18 works) · Geography (16 works) · Geology (15 works) · Archaeology and ancient environmental studies (13 works) · Materials Science (11 works) · Metallurgy (11 works) · Archaeology and Rock Art Studies (10 works) · History (8 works) · Metallurgy and Cultural Artifacts (7 works) · Smelting (7 works)