This presentation will display traces of polishing and engraving on bronze surfaces from China before 100 BCE, arguing that some traces might be left from abrasives employed in practices of lapidary craftsmanship. Skills of lapidary and post-processing of cast bronze objects were interrelated.

公元前100年之前的青铜器铸造后处理技术尚未被仔细研究过。如何抛光和雕刻坚硬的青铜表面，仍然是个谜题。学者们通常认为青铜器上的雕刻是依靠铁器，但这样的结论较为草率，仍需要进一步研究。本次报告会展示青铜表面的抛光和雕刻痕迹，指出部分痕迹可能是运用于宝石工艺的磨料留下的。宝石雕刻工艺和青铜器铸造的后处理工艺是相互关联的。

In mainland Southeast Asia, copper-base metallurgy from mining to exchange and consumption commenced in the late 2nd millennium BC. With the excavation of a large area of Ban Non Wat in Northeast Thailand, its social impact is re-assessed.

在东南亚大陆，包括采矿、交换和消费等活动的铜基冶金始于公元前2000年后期。随着泰国东北部大范围的班诺洼(Ban Non Wat)遗址的挖掘，这份报告将重新评估铜基冶金的社会影响。

New archaeometallurgical research throws light on the development of metal making technologies in the Bronze Age steppes and networks of connectedness of its communities along the routes today knowns as the Silk Roads.

新的考古冶金学研究揭示了青铜时代大草原金属制造技术的发展，以及今天被称为丝绸之路的沿线社区的联系网络。

This presentation aims to summarize the social hierarchy attached to the bronze objects at Anyang based upon not only the physical properties of copper alloyings (e.g., colour) but also the overall life history of the raw metal and the related technological choices.

本报告旨在总结安阳青铜器的社会等级，其依据不仅是铜合金的物理特性（如颜色），还包括原始金属的整个流动过程和相关的技术选择。

Investigating the Aegean within its Mediterranean context, I regard the quest for metals as driving maritime technology, market economies, international diplomacy, and the prestige goods economy.

在地中海背景下对于爱琴海地区的考察表明，金属的追求推动了海洋技术、市场经济、国际外交和贵重商品经济。

Recent archaeological research shows that the historical trajectory of Egypt in the Bronze Age differs in some ways from that of other Near Eastern societies and that, quite probably, it may be better understood in the light of its African context.

最近的考古研究表明，青铜时代的埃及的历史轨迹在某些方面与其他的近东社会存在差异；如果将其置于非洲背景中，我们可能可以更好地理解它。

This paper discusses the trajectories of the southern spread of bronze-casting technology and bronze culture in Shang China as well as different phenomena that accompanied the exchange between northern and southern cultures of the time.

本文论述了商代青铜铸造技术和青铜文化向南传播的轨迹，以及这一时期南北文化交流中出现的不同现象。

The paper will use bronze as a metaphor for the cultural amalgamation shown in the ancient Near Eastern Bronze Age and wonder whether cosmopolitanism is a typical aspect of Bronze Age civilizations.

本文将使用用青铜隐喻古代近东地区青铜时代的文化融合，并质问跨文化交流是否是青铜时代文明的一个典型特征。

This talk will present a conspectus of the socio-economic transformations that took place during the Bronze Ages in Anatolia. Economically, bartered trade became institutionalized and trade shifted to the control of local elite. In the political scene, Anatolia initially manifested as mosaic of states, eventually leading to early empires such as the Hittites featuring warfare and bureaucracy. The economy was revived by the growth in cultivation of plants such as the grape and olive, mutated woolly-sheep, and honey-bees, which became the main assets of organized caravan trade, in turn made possible by local domestication of horse and donkey.

该讲座将介绍青铜时代发生在安纳托利亚的社会经济变革。在经济上，以物易物的贸易变得制度化，并将贸易控制在当地精英手中；政治上，由最初的小国林立，产生了早期的帝国，如赫梯，并以战争和官僚机构为特征；经济上，葡萄和橄榄等工业植物的种植使经济复苏，变异的毛羊和蜜蜂成为有组织的商队贸易的主要资产，而当地对马和驴的驯化使更有助于这一切的实现。

A social archaeology of the Harappan Bronze Age can be undertaken through a study of urban households and neighbourhoods.

通过对城市家庭和社区的研究来考察哈拉帕青铜时代的社会考古学。

This article aims to demonstrate how, in Tel Azekah, five phases of structural change represent the shifts in the pendulum of power. After this, characterized by urbanism and monumental architecture, occupation at Tel Azekah continues until the very end of the Late Bronze Age III, when it lost its economic and political patron and fell victim to violent destruction.

本文旨在说明，Tel Azekah的建筑构造变迁的五个阶段是如何表征权力转换。在Tel Azekah，以城市化和纪念性建筑为特征的居住和占领一直持续到晚期青铜时代第三期；而此时的Tel Azekah已经失去经济和政治庇护，成为暴力破坏的牺牲品。

An overview of non-urban ‘Nubian’ habitation sites in the Lower Nubian Nile Valley, their inhabitants, and their socio-cultural interconnections, c. 2000–1500 BCE.

一份对大约公元前2000-1500年的下努比亚尼罗河谷的非城镇“努比亚”居住地的概述，包括期间的居民状况、和社会文化联系。

This paper analyses marine resource use in the Bronze Age with a special focus on Japan and Island East Asia.

本文分析了青铜器时代的海洋资源利用情况，重点以日本和东亚岛国的海洋资源利用为例。

In this paper we explore how Bronze Age funerary monuments in the United Arab Emirates reflect societal values that both pre-date and post-date the Bronze Age itself. In this approach the tombs are positioned within a longue durée perspective on Arabian prehistory.

在这篇文章中，我们探讨了阿联酋青铜时代的葬礼纪念碑是如何反映青铜时代前后的社会价值观念。本文将从长时段视角来观察阿拉伯史前坟墓。

Drawing evidence from the mortuary record, this paper highlights an increase in social complexity at Susa in southwest Iran after it was released from the centralized control of Mesopotamia’s Ur III polity and embraced by Elamite highland dynasts from the east.

本文通过对逝世记录的分析，突出伊朗西南部苏萨从美索不达米亚乌尔第三王朝政权的集权控制中解放，并被东部的埃兰高地王朝接受后，不断增长的社会复杂性。