Xosê-Lois Armada Editor

Xosé-Lois Armada is a researcher at the Spanish National Research Council, Santiago de Compostela. His research interests are in protohistoric metallurgy and its social interpretation, prestige objects and metals as an expression of power; ancient mining and metal as a motivating factor for interactions and social change on a regional scale. Mercedes Murillo-Barroso is a Marie Curie IE Fellow based at the UCL Institute of Archaeology. her research interests focus on social archaeology especially concerning the debates about the origins of metallurgy and its relationship with social inequality. Mike Charlton is a Marie Curie Research Fellow at the UCL Institute of Archaeology, having received his PhD from the same in 2007. His research focuses on the integration of materials characterisation (especially analytical chemistry) with Darwinian approaches to archaeology in an effort to better understand the evolution of craft production and exchange systems as well as their interrelationships with other aspects of the social and natural environments.