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Mark Pearce

Professor of Mediterranean Prehistory, Faculty of Arts

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Biography

  • Since 1 Aug 1995: Department of Archaeology, University of Nottingham.
  • 2017-20: Head of School of Humanities (Departments of Classics and Archaeology, History, Music, Philosophy and Theology & Religious Studies)
  • Sept 2016 - Jan 2017: Leverhulme Trust International Academic Fellowship at Deutsches Bergbau- Museum and Ruhr-Universität Bochum, Germany
  • Feb 2016: visiting professor, University of Sassari, Italy
  • 2011-14: Secretary, European Association of Archaeologists
  • Since 2012: Corresponding Fellow, German Archaeological Institute (Deutsches Archäologisches Institut)
  • 2009-2010: Leverhulme Trust Research Fellowship - Exploring the north Italian early Neolithic
  • 2006-08: member, Dr M. Aylwin Cotton Foundation Consultative Committee
  • 2004-07: member, Nomination Committee of the European Association of Archaeologists
  • Sept 2001 - Sept 2004: General Editor, European Journal of Archaeology; ex-officio member Executive Board, European Association of Archaeologists
  • Since April 2001: member of Trent Valley Geoarchaeology, a regional archaeology strategy group
  • 1997-2001: member, Dr M. Aylwin Cotton Foundation Consultative Committee
  • 1996-97: Dr M. Aylwin Cotton Foundation Fellowship
  • April 1997: nominated Membro Straniero of the Istituto Italiano di Preistoria e Protostoria
  • 1992-93, 1993-94, 1996-97: professore a contratto in Prehistory, University of Pavia, Italy

Editorial Boards: Journal of World Prehistory, Origini, Padusa, Opera Ipogea, Ocnus

Expertise Summary

Prehistoric Italy, Early mining and metallurgy, Prehistory, Early Neolithic of the central Mediterranean

Teaching Summary

At present I am on research leave (Summer 2020-Summer 2023) and am only teaching at PhD level. I am keen to supervise PhD projects in central Mediterranean prehistory (particularly Italian… read more

Research Summary

My research is largely focused on the western Mediterranean, in particular Italy, and I am interested in early mining and metallurgy, the spread of the Neolithic, Bayesian modelling of radiocarbon… read more

Selected Publications

  • PEARCE, MARK, 2021. The historical significance of Frattesina Padusa: Bollettino del Centro Polesano. 56 (2020), 163-172
  • PEARCE, M., BELLINTANI, P. and NICOLIS, F., 2020. Frattesina and the later Bronze Age – Early Iron Age metals trade: the absolute chronology of smelting sites in the Trentino – Alto Adige/Südtirol Padusa: Bollettino del Centro Polesano. 55 (2019), 67-86
  • PEARCE, MARK, 2020. Aspects of Urbanism in Later Bronze Age Northern Italy. In: ZAMBONI, LORENZO, FERNÁNDEZ-GÖTZ, MANUEL and METZNER-NEBELSICK, CAROLA, eds., Crossing the Alps: early urbanism between northern Italy and central Europe (900-400 BC) Sidestone. 19-25
  • PEARCE, MARK, 2020. L’atlante inedito di Chierici. Gli albi e le carte di distribuzione dei ritrovamenti preistorici e protostorici nel contesto europeo Bullettino di Paletnologia Italiana. 100(1), 149-155

At present I am on research leave (Summer 2020-Summer 2023) and am only teaching at PhD level. I am keen to supervise PhD projects in central Mediterranean prehistory (particularly Italian prehistory), early mining and metallurgy, the early Neolithic, British Prehistory and the History and Theory of Archaeology.

Current Research

My research is largely focused on the western Mediterranean, in particular Italy, and I am interested in early mining and metallurgy, the spread of the Neolithic, Bayesian modelling of radiocarbon dates, dairying and the pastoral economy, as well as Bronze Age and Iron Age northern Italy and the History and Theory of Archaeology.

At present (2020-2023) I am working on a book project, 'Invention and Innovation - the origins of metallurgy in the Mediterranean basin', funded in 2021-2023 by a Leverhulme Trust Major Research Fellowship.

Long-term projects include the final publication of excavation in collaboration with Roberto Maggi (formerly of the Direzione Regionale per i Beni culturali e paesaggistici della Liguria) of the prehistoric copper mine at Monte Loreto, Liguria

I am keen to supervise PhD projects in central Mediterranean prehistory (particularly Italian prehistory), early mining and metallurgy, British Prehistory and the History and Theory of Archaeology.

Editorial Boards: Journal of World Prehistory (Associate Editor), Bullettino di Paletnologia Italiana, Quaderni storici, Origini, Ipotesi di Preistoria, Ocnus, Padusa and Opera Ipogea

Research and advisory boards:

  • Since 2023: Advisory Board, Ancient West and East
  • Since 2020: Scientific Committee, Centro Universitario Europeo per i Beni Culturali, Ravello (Italy)
  • Since 2017: Advisory Board, Leibniz Post Graduate School: Resources in Societies (ReSoc), Deutsches Bergbau-Museum Bochum (DBM) and the Ruhr-Universität Bochum (RUB)
  • Since 2008: Steering Group, East Midlands Historic Environment Research Framework

Past Research

Mark Pearce 2013. Rethinking the north Italian early Neolithic. London: Accordia Research Institute (Specialist Studies on Italy 17) - funded by a Leverhulme Trust Research Fellowship, the monograph reassesses the early Neolithic of northern Italy, proposing a new and more precise radiocarbon chronology for understanding its inception on the basis of the large available corpus of radiocarbon determinations, by bringing to bear Bayesian statistic modelling, particularly on those series of determinations from deeply stratified cave sites. The study also examines the mechanisms by which the Neolithic spread and argues that a 'full' Neolithic appears at the beginning of the period in Italy.

Understanding Italian prehistoric metallurgy: production, distribution and consumption - an AHRC research-leave-supported book project - Mark Pearce 2007. Bright Blades and Red Metal: essays on north Italian prehistoric metalwork. London: Accordia Research Institute (Specialist Studies on Italy 14).

Excavation in collaboration with Roberto Maggi (Direzione Regionale per i Beni culturali e paesaggistici della Liguria) of the early prehistoric copper mine at Monte Loreto, Liguria (sponsors include AHRB Research Grant 1999-2002) - R. Maggi and M. Pearce, 2005. Mid fourth-millennium copper mining in Liguria, north-west Italy: the earliest known copper mines in Western Europe. Antiquity 79 (303): 66-77.

Survey in collaboration with Michael McCullagh (School of Geography) at the later fourth millennium cal BC copper mine at Libiola, Liguria.

Beneath the soil from Trent to Nene: Assessment of the performance of geophysical survey in the East Midlands - funded by the English Heritage Aggregates Levy Sustainability Fund. Report archived with the Archaeology Data Service.

Trent Valley Geoarchaeology Bibliographic Database - funded by the English Heritage Aggregates Levy Sustainability Fund. Report and database archived with the Archaeology Data Service.

Steering Group, East Midlands Heritage: An updated research agenda and strategy for the historic environment of the East Midlands (eds D. Knight, B. Vyner, C. Allen).

  • PEARCE, MARK, BELLINTANI, PAOLO and NICOLIS, FRANCO, 2021. L’inizio della seconda fase della coltivazione del rame nel Trentino – Alto Adige/Südtirol nel XVI secolo a.C. In: Fare Rame: La metallurgia primaria della tarda età del bronzo in Trentino: nuovi scavi, confronti e stato dell'arte. (In Press.)
  • PEARCE, MARK, 2021. The historical significance of Frattesina Padusa: Bollettino del Centro Polesano. 56 (2020), 163-172
  • PEARCE, MARK, 2020. Le prime esperienze di metallurgia in Sardegna. In: COSSU, TATIANA and LUGLIÈ, CARLO, eds., La preistoria in Sardegna: il tempo delle comunità umane dal X al II millennio a.C. Ilisso. 198-202
  • PEARCE, MARK, 2020. Le origini e la diffusione della metallurgia nel Mediterraneo occidentale. In: COSSU, TATIANA and LUGLIÈ, CARLO, eds., La preistoria in Sardegna: il tempo delle comunità umane dal X al II millennio a.C. Ilisso. 194-197
  • PEARCE, MARK, 2020. Aspects of Urbanism in Later Bronze Age Northern Italy. In: ZAMBONI, LORENZO, FERNÁNDEZ-GÖTZ, MANUEL and METZNER-NEBELSICK, CAROLA, eds., Crossing the Alps: early urbanism between northern Italy and central Europe (900-400 BC) Sidestone. 19-25
  • PEARCE, MARK, 2020. Caves and rock shelters, burials and smelting Metalla. Sonderheft 10, 19-23
  • MAGGI, ROBERTO, BINDER, DIDIER, PANELLI, CHIARA, GABRIELE, MARZIA, GABRIELE, MARZIA, PEARCE, MARK, ROSSI, STEFANO and ROWLEY-CONWY, PETER, 2020. Liguria: aperture e chiusure di un’isola fra due pianure Rivista di Scienze Preistoriche. 70(S1), 83-97
  • PEARCE, MARK, 2020. L’atlante inedito di Chierici. Gli albi e le carte di distribuzione dei ritrovamenti preistorici e protostorici nel contesto europeo Bullettino di Paletnologia Italiana. 100(1), 149-155
  • PEARCE, M., BELLINTANI, P. and NICOLIS, F., 2020. Frattesina and the later Bronze Age – Early Iron Age metals trade: the absolute chronology of smelting sites in the Trentino – Alto Adige/Südtirol Padusa: Bollettino del Centro Polesano. 55 (2019), 67-86
  • PEARCE, MARK, 2019. Frattesina la prospettiva europea. In: BIETTI SESTIERI, ANNA MARIA, BELLINTANI, PAOLO and GIARDINO, CLAUDIO, eds., Frattesina: un centro internazionale di produzione e di scambio nella Tarda Età del Bronzo del Veneto Bardi Edizioni. 339-351
  • PEARCE, MARK, 2019. The Curse of the pXRF: the Negative Consequences of the Popularity of Handheld XRF Analysis of Copper-Based Metal Artefacts Metalla. 24(2 (2018)), 81-85
  • PEARCE, MARK, 2019. The ‘Copper Age’ — A History of the Concept Journal of World Prehistory. 32, 229-250
  • PEARCE, MARK, 2018. The 'island of silver veins’: an overview of the earliest metal and metalworking in Sardinia Metalla. 23(1 (2017)), 91-111
  • ALBORE LIVADIE, CLAUDE, PEARCE, MARK, DELLE DONNE, MATTEO and PIZZANO, NATASCIA, 2018. The effects of the Avellino Pumice eruption on the population of the Early Bronze Age Campanian plain (Southern Italy) Quaternary International. (In Press.)
  • MARK PEARCE, 2017. Storia delle ricerche paletnologiche nel territorio di Varese. In: MAURIZIO HARARI, ed., Storia di Varese: Il territorio di Varese in età preistorica e protostorica 3.1. Nomos Edizioni. 11-27
  • PEARCE, M., 2016. Archaeology and archaeometallurgy: some unresolved areas in the interpretation of analytical data STAR: Science & Technology of Archaeological Research. 2(1), 46-53
  • BARTELHEIM, M and PEARCE, M, 2015. Early metallurgy in Iberia and the western Mediterranean. In: FOWLER, C, HARDING, J and HOFMANN, D, eds., The Oxford Handbook of Neolithic Europe Oxford University Press. 693-709
  • PEARCE, M., 2015. Giovanni Patroni e l��opposizione a Luigi Pigorini. In: GUIDI, A., ed., 150 anni di preistoria e protostoria in Italia: Atti della XLVI Riunione Scientifica IIPP, Roma 23-26 novembre 2011 Istituto Italiano di Preistoria e Protostoria. 285-289
  • PEARCE, M, 2015. The spread of early copper mining and metallurgy in Europe: an assessment of the diffusionist model: a keynote lecture. In: HAUPTMANN, A. and MODARESSI-TEHRANI, D, eds., Archaeometallurgy in Europe III: Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference, Deutsches Bergbau-Museum Bochum, June 29 – July 1, 2011 Deutsches Bergbau-Museum. 45-54
  • PEARCE, M., 2013. The spirit of the sword and spear Cambridge Archaeological Journal. 23(1), 55-67
  • PEARCE, M., 2013. Into the realm of “obscurity and thick darkness”: can we reconstruct the belief systems of past miners? Archeologia postmedievale. 17, 271-5
  • PEARCE, M., 2013. Impact, language communities and archaeological schools: British Archaeologists and Italian Neolithic studies Accordia Research Papers. 13, 153-159
  • PEARCE, M., 2013. Siti e tracce ambientali dell’attività mineraria in Alta Val Trebbia. In: CEVASCO, R., ed., La natura della montagna: scritti in ricordo di Giuseppina Poggi Oltre. 375-381
  • PEARCE, M, 2013. The absolute chronology of site IV at Terrina (Aléria, Haute-Corse) and early metallurgy on Corsica and Sardinia Accordia Research Papers. 12 (2009-12), 41-55
  • PEARCE, M., 2013. Rethinking the north Italian early Neolithic Accordia Research Institute, University of London.
  • MAGGI, R. and PEARCE, M., 2013. Cronologia mineraria in Liguria. In: COCCHI GENICK, D., ed., Cronologia assoluta e relativa dell’età del Rame in Italia: Atti dell’Incontro di Studi: Università di Verona, 25 giugno 2013 QuiEdit. 5-15
  • PEARCE, M., 2012. «La foto aerea e i paesaggi antichi»: l’Italia e l’Inghilterra a confronto. Appunti di storia della fotografia aerea. In: BARGNESI, R. and SCUDERI, R, eds., Il paesaggio e l’esperienza: Scritti di antichità offerti a Pierluigi Tozzi in occasione del suo 75° compleanno Pavia University Press. 123-128
  • MAGGI, R, CAMPANA, N and PEARCE, M, 2011. Pirotecnologia e cronologia. Novità da Monte Loreto. In: GIARDINO, C, ed., Archeometallurgia: dalla conoscenza alla fruizione: Atti del Workshop, 22-25 maggio 2006: Cavallino (LE), Convento dei Domenicani Edipuglia. 281-292
  • MCCULLAGH, M and PEARCE, M, 2011. The developing view: air photo interpretation in war and peace. In: NICOLIS, F, CIURLETTI, G and DE GUIO, A, eds., Archeologia della Grande Guerra/Archaeology of the Great War: Atti del Convegno Internazionale/Proceedings of the International Conference: 23/24.06.2006: Luserna, Trento Provincia autonoma di Trento, Soprintendenza per i Beni librari archivistici e archeologici, Settore beni archeologici. 177-203
  • BINTLIFF, J. and PEARCE, M., eds., 2011. The death of archaeological theory? Oxbow Books.
  • PEARCE, M, 2011. Le evidenze archeologiche di estrazione mineraria preistorica in Italia settentrionale. In: GIARDINO, C, ed., Archeometallurgia: dalla conoscenza alla fruizione: Atti del Workshop, 22-25 maggio 2006: Cavallino (LE), Convento dei Domenicani Edipuglia. 253-266
  • PEARCE, M, 2011. Have rumours of the 'Death of Theory' been exaggerated?. In: BINTLIFF, J and PEARCE, M, eds., The Death of Archaeological Theory? Oxbow Books. 80-89
  • BINTLIFF, J and PEARCE, M, 2011. Introduction. In: BINTLIFF, J and PEARCE, M, eds., The Death of Archaeological Theory? Oxbow Books. 1-6
  • PEARCE, M, 2010. Review of V. Tiné, a cura di: 'Favella. Un villaggio del Neolitico antico nella Sibaritide' Rivista di Scienze Preistoriche. 60, 395-396
  • MAGGI, R. and PEARCE, M., 2010. Changing subsistence structures and the origins of mining in the Ligurian Apennine mountains. In: ANREITER, P. ET AL., ed., Mining in European History and its Impact on Environment and Human Societies – Proceedings for the 1st Mining in European History-Conference of the SFB-HIMAT, 12.-15. November 2009, Innsbruck Innsbruck University Press. 283-287
  • PEARCE, M, 2009. How much metal was there in circulation in Copper Age Italy?. In: KIENLIN, T.L. and ROBERTS, B.W., eds., Metals and Societies: Studies in honour of Barbara S. Ottaway Habelt. 277-284
  • PEARCE, M., 2009. A conversation with Lawrence Barfield - 16 October 2008 Accordia Research Papers. 11(2007-2008), x-xxviii
  • PEARCE, M., 2008. Review of K. Kristiansen, T.B. Larsson: 'The Rise of Bronze Age Society: Travels, Transmissions and Transformations' European Journal of Archaeology. 10(2-3), 237-239
  • PEARCE, M., 2008. European heritage: A view from the periphery Archaeological Dialogues. 15(1), 51-53
  • CAMPANA, N, MAGGI, R and PEARCE, M., 2008. Issel dixit. In: DE PASCALE, A, DEL LUCCHESE, A and RAGGIO, O., eds., La nascita della Paletnologia in Liguria. Personaggi, scoperte e collezioni tra XIX e XX secolo: Atti del Convegno Internazionale. Finale Ligure Borgo (Savona), 22-23 settembre 2006. Complesso di Santa Caterina – Auditorium. Museo Archeologico del Finale Bordighera – Finale Ligure: Istituto Internazionale di Studi Liguri. 305-311
  • PEARCE, M, HAMILTON, S and BROWN, K., 2008. Ruth D. Whitehouse Journal of Mediterranean Archaeology. 21(1), 5-17
  • PEARCE, M., 2008. Structured deposition in early neolithic Northern Italy Journal of Mediterranean Archaeology. 21(1), 19-33
  • PEARCE, M., 2007. Le città fallite. Considerazioni sulla robustezza delle istituzioni cittadine Athenaeum. 95(2), 815-818
  • PEARCE, M.J., 2007. Bright blades and red metal: Essays on north Italian prehistoric metalwork London: Accordia Research Institute.
  • PEARCE, M., 2006. On Acheron’s shore? Echoes of Greek belief and practice in the north Italian Final Bronze and Early Iron Ages. In: HERRING, E, LEMOS, I, LO SCHIAVO, F, VAGNETTI, L, WHITEHOUSE, R and WILKINS, J., eds., Across Frontiers: Etruscans, Greeks, Phoenicians & Cypriots: Studies in honour of David Ridgway and Francesca Romana Serra Ridgway London: Accordia Research Institute. 471-476
  • CORTESOGNO, L, DE PASCALE, A, GAGGERO, L, MAGGI, R and PEARCE, M., 2006. Strumenti litici per estrazione mineraria: il caso di Monte Loreto (IV millennio BC). In: COCCHI GENICK, D, ed., Materie prime e scambi nella preistoria italiana: Nel cinquantenario della fondazione dell’Istituto Italiano di Preistoria e Protostoria. Firenze, 25-27 novembre 2004 II. Florence: Istituto Italiano di Preistoria e Protostoria. 683-695
  • CAMPANA, N, MAGGI, R, PEARCE, M and OTTOMANO, C., 2006. Quanto Rame? Stima della produzione mineraria del distretto di Sestri Levante fra IV e III millennio BC. In: COCCHI GENICK, D., ed., Materie prime e scambi nella preistoria italiana: Nel cinquantenario della fondazione dell’Istituto Italiano di Preistoria e Protostoria. Firenze, 25-27 novembre 2004 III. Florence: Istituto Italiano di Preistoria e Protostoria. 1339-1348
  • PEARCE, M.J., 2005. Review of G. Barker, T. Rasmussen: 'The Etruscans' Classical Review. 55(1), 273-274
  • MAGGI, R. and PEARCE, M.J., 2005. Fouilles dans les mines de cuivre (IVe millénaire Cal. BC) de Monte Loreto (Ligurie, nord-ouest de l'Italie) In: La première métallurgie en France et dans les pays limitrophes. 281-286
  • PEARCE, M.J., 2004. Editorial European Journal of Archaeology. 7(1), 5-8
  • MCCULLAGH, M.J. and PEARCE, M.J., 2004. Surveying the prehistoric copper mine at Libiola (Sestri Levante - GE), Italy. In: BALZARETTI, R., PEARCE, M. and WATKINS, C., eds., Ligurian landscapes: studies in archaeology, geography and history London: Accordia Research Institute. 83-95
  • BALZARETTI, R., PEARCE, M.J. and WATKINS, C., 2004. Ligurian landscapes: microhistory and environmental history. In: BALZARETTI, R., PEARCE, M.J. and WATKINS, C., eds., Ligurian landscapes: studies in archaeology, geography and history London: Accordia Research Institute. 1-6
  • PEARCE, M.J., 2004. The significance of bronze. In: BOGUCKI, P. and CRABTREE, P., eds., Ancient Europe 8000 B.C.-A.D 1000: encyclopedia of the Barbarian world Volume 1: The Mesolithic to Copper Age (c. 8000-2000 B.C.). New York: Charles Scribner's Sons. 6-11
  • BALZARETTI, R., PEARCE, M. and WATKINS, C., eds., 2004. Ligurian landscapes: studies in archaeology, geography and history London: Accordia Research Institute.
  • PEARCE, M.J., 2004. The Italian Bronze Age. In: BOGUCKI, P. and CRABTREE, P., eds., Ancient Europe 8000 B.C.-A.D 1000: encyclopedia of the Barbarian world Volume 1: The Mesolithic to Copper Age (c. 8000-2000 B.C.). New York: Charles Scribner's Sons. 34-42
  • BALZARETTI, R., PEARCE, M. and WATKINS, C., eds., 2004. Ligurian landscapes: studies in archaeology, geography and history London: Accordia Research Institute.
  • PEARCE, M.J., 2003. Editorial European Journal of Archaeology. 6(3), 227-229
  • PEARCE, M.J., 2003. Editorial European Journal of Archaeology. 6(2), 115-117
  • MAGGI, R. and PEARCE, M.J., 2003. Excavations at the fourth millennium cal BC copper mines at Monte Loreto (Liguria - NW Italy) In: Archaeometallurgy in Europe. 587-596
  • PEARCE, M.J., 2003. Editorial European Journal of Archaeology. 6(1), 5-6
  • PEARCE, M.J., 2003. Review of British Barrows: a matter of life and death. Anne Woodward. Tempus, 2000, 160 pp. ISBN 0752425315 East Midland Historian. 13, 64-65
  • PEARCE, M.J., 2003. Tra il fiume e la montagna: Voghera e il Vogherese prima di Roma. In: CAU, E., PAOLETTI, P. and SETTIA, A.A., eds., Dalla preistoria all'eta viscontea Voghera: EDO-Edizioni Oltrepò. 39-52, pls 7-11
  • PEARCE, M.J., 2003. Una pianura tra le acque: preistoria e protostoria del cremonese. In: TOZZI, P., ed., Storia di Cremona: L'Età Antica Azzano San Paolo (BG): Bolis. 38-61
  • PEARCE, M.J., 2002. Reconstructing past transpennine trade routes: the Trebbia valley Archeologia Postmedievale. 6, 181-183
  • PEARCE, M.J., 2002. Miniere di rame in Val Trebbia (provincia di Genova) Archeologia Postmedievale. 6, 177-180
  • PEARCE, M.J., 2002. Editorial European Journal of Archaeology. 5(2), 145-146
  • PEARCE, M.J., 2001. Il rapporto tra archeologia e tutela dell'ambiente In: Atti del convegno internazionale di studi: Patrimonio storico-ambientale. Esperienze, progetti e prospettive per la valorizzazione delle aree rurali. 79-82
  • CAMPANA, N., MAGGI, R. and PEARCE, M.J., 2001. Le miniere di rame di Libiola e di Monte Loreto (Genova, Italia) In: Bell Beakers today: pottery, people, culture, symbols in prehistoric Europe. Proceedings of the International Colloquium. 633-635
  • PEARCE, M., 2000. What this awl means: understanding the earliest Italian metalwork. In: RIDGWAY, D., ed., Ancient Italy in its Mediterranean setting: studies in honour of Ellen Macnamara London: Accordia Research Institute. 67-73
  • PEARCE, M.J., PERETTO, R. and TOZZI, P., 2000. Map 40 Patavium. In: TALBERT, R.J.A., ed., Barrington Atlas of the Greek and Roman World: Map-by-Map Directory 1. Princeton: Princeton University Press. 587-596
  • HARARI, M. and PEARCE, M.J., eds., 2000. Il protovillanoviano al di qua e al di là dell'Appennino. Atti della giornata di studio, Pavia, Collegio Ghislieri, 17 giugno 1995 Como: New Press.
  • PEARCE, M.J. and TOZZI, P., 2000. Map 39 Mediolanum. In: TALBERT, R.J.A., ed., Barrington Atlas of the Greek and Roman World: Map-by-Map Directory 1. Princeton: Princeton University Press. 573-586
  • RIDGWAY, D., SERRA RIDGWAY, F., PEARCE, M.J., HERRING, E., WHITEHOUSE, R. and WILKINS, J.B., eds., 2000. Ancient Italy in its Mediterranean setting: studies in honour of Ellen Macnamara London: Accordia Research Centre.
  • PEARCE, M.J., 2000. Metals make the world go round: the copper supply for Frattesina In: Metals make the world go round: the supply and circulation of metals in Bronze Age Europe. 108-115
  • PEARCE,M.J., 1999. Il comprensorio di Pavia in età protostorica e il problema di Pavia preromana Annali di Storia Pavese. 26, 251-257
  • MONTANARI, M. and PEARCE, M.J., 1999. San Colombano al Lambro e il suo colle. Dalla preistoria all'alto medioevo Comune di San Colombano al Lambro.
  • PEARCE, M.J. and DE GUIO, A., 1999. Between the mountains and the plain: an integrated metals production and circulation system in later Bronze Age north-eastern Italy In: Prehistoric alpine environment, society and economy. Papers of the international colloquium PAESE 1997 in Zurich. 289-293
  • PEARCE, M.J., 1999. La preistoria del comprensorio di San Colombano al Lambro. In: San Colombano al Lambro e il suo colle. Dalla preistoria all'alto medioevo 23-52
  • PEARCE, M., 1999. Review of M. Venturino Gambari (a cura di), Navigatori e contadini. Alba e la valle del Tanaro nella preistoria. Studi per una storia d'Alba. I Athenaeum. 87(1), 295-6
  • CAMPANA, N., MAGGI, R. and PEARCE, M.J., 1999. Ricerche archeologiche nelle miniere di Libiola e di Monte Loreto (Genova) Paleo-express: comunicazioni di preistoria italiana. 3(Feb 1999), 9-10
  • HOWARD, A.J., SMITH, D.N., GARTON, D., HILLAM, J. and PEARCE, M.J., 1999. Middle to Late Holocene environments in the Middle to Lower Trent Valley. In: BROWN, A.G. and QUINE, T.A., eds., Fluvial Processes and Environmental Change Chichester: John Wiley. 165-178
  • ODDONE, M., MELONI, S., GENOVA, N., MACCABRUNI, C. and PEARCE, M.J., 1999. The provenance of the white marble from the Torre Civica excavations (Pavia, Italy) In: Archéomatériaux. Marbres et autres roches. ASMOSIA IV. Actes de la IVème Conférence Internationale. 289-293
  • MCCULLAGH, M.J., MAGGI, R., PEARCE, M.J. and RATCLIFFE, J., 1999. From the ground up: visualising Ligurian archaeological sites In: Archaeology in the Age of the Internet - CAA 97 - Computer Applications and Quantitative Methods in Archaeology: Proceedings of the 25th Anniversary Conference. 265
  • PEARCE, M.J. and TOSI, M., eds., 1998. Papers from the EAA Third Annual Meeting at Ravenna 1997. Volume II: Classical and Medieval Oxford: Archaeopress.
  • PEARCE, M.J., 1998. The San Colombano Group: A Final Bronze Age Polity in North West Italy In: Atti del XIII Congresso, UISPP. 389-394
  • MAGGI, R. and PEARCE, M.J., 1998. Les mines préhistoriques de Libiola et Monte Loreto (nouvelles fouilles) In: Paléométallurgie des cuivres. Actes du colloque de Bourg-en-Bresse et Beaune. 89-93
  • PEARCE, M.J., 1998. Reconstructing prehistoric metallurgical knowledge: the northern Italian Copper and Bronze Ages European Journal of Archaeology. 1(1), 51-70
  • CAMPANA, N., MAGGI, R. and PEARCE, M.J., 1998. Libiola e Monte Loreto: due miniere di rame preistoriche nella Liguria orientale In: Le Scienze della Terra e l'Archeometria. 175-179
  • PEARCE, M.J., 1998. New research on the terramare of northern Italy Antiquity. 72 (278), 743-746
  • PEARCE, M.J. and TOSI, M., eds., 1998. Papers from the EAA Third Annual Meeting at Ravenna 1997. Volume I: Pre- and Protohistory Oxford: Archaeopress.
  • PEARCE, M.J., 1998. Urbanisation and state formation in Early Iron Age Northern Italy: Golasecca and Este In: Atti del XIII Congresso, UISPP. 571-576
  • CAMPANA, N., MAGGI, R. and PEARCE, M.J., 1998. Miniere preistoriche di rame a Libiola e Monte Loreto. In: DEL LUCCHESE, A. and MAGGI, R., eds., Dal Diaspro al Bronzo. L'Età del Rame e l'Età del Bronzo in Liguria: 26 secoli di storia fra 3600 e 1000 anni avanti Cristo La Spezia: Luna Editore. 138-141
  • PEARCE, M.J., 1997. 'Benedictine monks in Dark Age Italy' [review of Richard Hodges. Light in the Dark Ages. London 1997] British Archaeology. 30(Dec 1997), 13
  • GARTON, D., HOWARD, A. and PEARCE, M.J., 1997. Archaeological investigations at Langford Quarry, Nottinghamshire 1995-6 Tarmac Papers. 1, 29-40
  • PEARCE, M.J., 1997. Badia Pavese (PV) San Tommaso: un central place nel quadro dei rapporti tra Italia nord-occidentale e tirrenica In: Protovillanoviani e/o Protoetruschi: Ricerche e scavi. Atti del III Incontro di Studi. 195-202
  • PEARCE, M.J., 1996. From the Stour to the Po: landscape archaeology in Suffolk and northern Italy. In: WILSON, R.J.A., ed., From River Trent to Raqqa. Nottingham University archaeological fieldwork in Britain, Europe and the Middle East, 1991-1995 Nottingham: University of Nottingham. 15-17
  • GARTON, D., HOWARD, A. and PEARCE, M.J., 1996. Neolithic riverside ritual? Excavations at Langford Lowfields, Nottinghamshire. In: WILSON, R.J.A., ed., From River Trent to Raqqa. Nottingham University archaeological fieldwork in Britain, Europe and the Middle East, 1991-1995 Nottingham: University of Nottingham. 9-11
  • PEARCE, M.J., 1996. Confronti tra ricerche di superficie: i casi di Lomello (PV) e Stoke by Nayland (Suffolk - GB) In: La ricerca archeologica di superficie in area padana. Atti del workshop. 363-373
  • MELONI, S., ODDONE, M., GENOVA, N., PEARCE, M.J., SETTI, M. and ZEZZA, U., 1996. Contributions of Neutron Activation Analysis to Archaeometric Research In: Radiations: from Theory to Multidisciplinary Applications. Proceedings of the 1st National Joint Congress. 108-112
  • PEARCE, M.J., MELONI, S., SETTI, M., GENOVA, N., ODDONE, M. and MUGGIA, A., 1996. A multi-disciplinary investigation of Roman bricks from the Torre Civica-Pavia (NW Italy) Science and Technology for Cultural Heritage. 5(2), 19-27
  • PEARCE, M.J., 1996. Ripostigli del Bronzo Antico nel territorio di Milano e Pavia In: L'antica età del bronzo in Italia. Atti del Congresso Nazionale, Viareggio. 550-551
  • MELONI, S., GENOVA, N., ODDONE, M., PEARCE, M.J., SETTI, M. and MACCABRUNI, C., 1996. New Contributions of Neutron Activation Analysis to Archaeometric Research In: Proceedings of the 2nd National Joint Congress SIRR - GIR, Palermo. 433-438
  • MELONI, S., GENOVA, N., ODDONE, M., SETTI, M., MUGGIA, A. and PEARCE, M.J., 1995. Mineralogia, petrografia ed analisi per attivazione neutronica applicate ad un problema archeometrico: i laterizi della Torre Civica di Pavia In: Le Scienze della Terra e lÃArcheometria. 117-119
  • PEARCE, M.J., 1995. Exchange northwards from peninsular Italy in the first millennium BC: the western Po Plain and the Alpine passes In: Italy in Europe: Economic Relations 700BC-AD50. 145-157
  • PEARCE, M.J. and GABBA, E., 1995. Dalle terremare a Roma: Wolfgang Helbig e la teoria delle origini degli Italici Rivista Storica Italiana. 107(1), 119-132
  • PEARCE, M., 1994. Il territorio di Milano e Pavia tra mesolitico e prima eta del ferro : dalla carta archeologica alla ricostruzione del paesaggio Florence: Nuova Italia.
  • PEARCE, M.J., 1994. The origins of metallurgy and ore sources: a north Italian case study Accordia Research Papers. 4 (1993), 49-62
  • PEARCE, M.J., 1993. Provenance problems and neutron activation analysis In: Actes du XIIe Congrès International des Sciences Préhistoriques et Protohistoriques. 237-241

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