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Department of Archaeology

 

Biography

My academic background includes degrees in history, archaeology and archaeological science. Their combination is a recurrent thread in my work. 

Much of my research has focused on the analysis of material culture and the reverse engineering of archaeological technologies, as a starting point to understand the evolution and movement of knowledge, people and things. Working with a large number of international research students and postdoctoral fellows has massively broadened my horizons. 

I joined the Department of Archaeology in Cambridge in 2018, after over a decade at UCL. 

Research

My research interests centre around material culture and technologies, the context of innovations, and knowledge transmission. I approach these subjects through a combination of analytical studies of archaeological materials, experiments, and historical sources. Much of my work has focused on archaeometallurgy in Europe, Africa, America and Asia, from prehistory to the recent past, and including scientific analyses of the manufacture and trade of gold, silver, copper, bronze, brass and iron, often studying production remains. I have additionally worked with ceramics, pigments, glass and amber, among other interesting materials. To different extents, my laboratory work has included optical microscopy, OM, SEM-EDS, EPMA, FTIR, XRD, (LA)-ICP-MS, (p)XRF, and Raman. I am also involved in collaborations that variously engage geometric morphometrics, multispectral imaging and statistics.

 

Topics

  • Material culture and technology
  • Knowledge transmission
  • Inventions and innovations
  • Archaeometallurgy
  • Archaeology of alchemy and chemistry
  • History and philosophy of science

 I am presently involved in the following research projects:

These are some of my past projects: 

 

Key Publications

Key publications

For a list of publications please see ORCID profile (https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2124-2837). You may be able to download some of these here and at https://cambridge.academia.edu/MarcosMartinonTorres.

Publication

Journal articles

2026 (Published online)

Benzonelli, A., Rivas Estrada, SRE., Otero Santillán, J., Calderón Rodríguez, GA., Crawford, RR., Vieri, J., Campos-Quintero, L. and Martinón-Torres, M., 2026 (Published online). Dos mil años de orfebrería Herrera y Muisca: biografías de objetos metálicos en Nueva Esperanza Arqueología y patrimonio, v. 5
Doi: http://doi.org/10.22380/26652773.3170

2026

Kwaspen, A., Escobar-Toro, A., Moreno-González, MC., Uribe-Villegas, MA., Sáenz-Samper, J. and Martinón-Torres, M., 2026. A Visual Method to Compare the Quality and Complexity of Archaeological Textiles: The Cotton Mantas of Pre-Hispanic Colombia Journal of Archaeological Method and Theory, v. 33
Doi: http://doi.org/10.1007/s10816-025-09758-w

2025 (Accepted for publication)

Klesner, C., Crawford, R., Martinon-Torres, M., Aristizábal Losada, L., Bernal Arévalo, M., Campos-Quintero, L., Cárdenas Arroyo, F., Maya Cabrera, MC., Murillo Jaramillo, PA., Pérez Fernández, DA., Saenz-Samper, J. and Uribe-Villegas, MA., 2025 (Accepted for publication). Disentangling technological traditions: comparative chaînes opératoires of painted pre-Hispanic ceramics from Nariño, Colombia Open Archaeology,
Doi: http://doi.org/10.1515/opar-2025-0038

Murillo-Barroso, M., Navero Rosales, M., González-Marcén, P. and Martinón-Torres, M., 2025 (Accepted for publication). Amber Networks in Prehistory: North-Eastern Iberia as a Case Study European Journal of Archaeology,
Doi: http://doi.org/10.1017/eaa.2025.12

Venunan, P., Pryce, TO., Natapintu, S. and Martinón-Torres, M., 2025 (Accepted for publication). Resolving resources and reality in early Thai iron markets: Primary production behaviours at Ban Kruat District, Buriram Province, northeast Thailand c. AD 200—1450 Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences, v. 17
Doi: http://doi.org/10.1007/s12520-025-02255-x

Montes-Landa, J., Montero Ruiz, I. and Martinón-Torres, M., 2025 (Accepted for publication). The Chalcolithic metallurgical tradition of Northeast Iberia and its later influence: new analyses and a synthesis Trabajos de Prehistoria, v. 82
Doi: http://doi.org/10.3989/tp.2025.1053

2025

Vieri, J., Crema, E., Uribe Villegas, MA., Sáenz Samper, J. and Martinon-Torres, M., 2025. Beyond baselines of performance: beta regression models of compositional variability in craft production studies Journal of Archaeological Science, v. 173
Doi: http://doi.org/10.1016/j.jas.2024.106106

Stodolová, K., La Duc, E., Millett, M. and Martinón-Torres, M., 2025. Beyond tools and weapons: A study of iron supply and nail manufacture in Roman Aldborough, Britain Journal of Archaeological Science Reports, v. 61
Doi: http://doi.org/10.1016/j.jasrep.2024.104910

Montes Landa, J., Pons, E., Rovira, C., Moya, A., Alonso, N. and Martinón-Torres, M., 2025. Towards a new history of bronze making: Explaining the selection of tin bronze alloying techniques across prehistoric N.E. Iberia (2100-200 BC) Journal of Archaeological Science, v. 178
Doi: http://doi.org/10.1016/j.jas.2025.106206

Zaggia, C., Martinón-Torres, M., Collins, M., Dawson, J. and Strudwick, H., 2025. Technological and compositional variation in pink and white pastes from a coffin set of the late Third Intermediate Period (Thebes, ca. 680–664 BCE) Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports, v. 62
Doi: http://doi.org/10.1016/j.jasrep.2025.105019

Lemos, R., Zaggia, C., Fulcher, K., Lidén, E., Werkström, L., Hocker, E., Bergquist, J. and Martinón-Torres, M., 2025. Bronze Age make-up recipes from Sudanese Lower Nubia point to a greater diversity across cultural borders in ancient Northeast Africa. PLoS One, v. 20
Doi: http://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0330205

2024 (Accepted for publication)

Montes Landa, J., Timberlake, S. and Martinon-Torres, M., 2024 (Accepted for publication). Debunking deterministic narratives of technological development through experimentation: A critical review of the prehistory of tin bronze alloying Journal of Archaeological Method and Theory,

Lemos, R., Tichindelean, M., Erban Kochergina, YV., Zaggia, C., Werkström, L., Hocker, E. and Martinon-Torres, M., 2024 (Accepted for publication). Bronze Age supply chains between ancient Egypt and Nubia revealed by lead isotope analysis of kohl samples Scientific Reports, v. 14
Doi: http://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-024-79162-z

2024

Bevan, A., Northover, P., Bray, P., Bonacchi, C., Colledge, S., Crellin, R., Gwilt, A., Hamilton, H., Hart, P., Kaleta, R., Keinan-Schoonbaert, A., Knight, M., Laws, K., Lodwick, M., Martinón-Torres, M., Needham, S., O’connor, B., Perucchetti, L., Pett, D., Wexler, J. and Wilkin, N., 2024. A Catalogue of British Bronze Age Axes, Including Basic Typology, Compositional Analyses and Associated Radiocarbon Dates Journal of Open Archaeology Data, v. 12
Doi: http://doi.org/10.5334/joad.119

2023 (Accepted for publication)

Vieri, J., Chirikure, S., Lane, P. and Martinon-Torres, M., 2023 (Accepted for publication). Archaeological science, globalisation, and local agency: gold in Great Zimbabwe Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences,
Doi: http://doi.org/10.1007/s12520-023-01811-7

2023

Liu, Y., Chen, K. and Martinón-Torres, M., 2023. Iron production in the Qin state during the late Warring States period: a cost-efficient technological system Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences, v. 15
Doi: http://doi.org/10.1007/s12520-023-01767-8

Alapont, L., Gallello, G., Martinón-Torres, M., Osanna, M., Amoretti, V., Chenery, S., Ramacciotti, M., Jiménez, JL., Morales Rubio, Á., Cervera, ML. and Pastor, A., 2023. The casts of Pompeii: Post-depositional methodological insights. PLoS One, v. 18
Doi: http://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0289378

2022 (Accepted for publication)

Cordivari, BW., Nikis, N. and Martinon-Torres, M., 2022 (Accepted for publication). Smelting copper in decorated pottery: communities of practice in the Niari Basin, Republic of the Congo, fifteenth–seventeenth centuries CE Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences, v. 14
Doi: http://doi.org/10.1007/s12520-022-01653-9

La Duc, E., Montero-Ruiz, I., Freestone, IC., Fanlo Loras, J., Jabalquinto Exposito, IM., Martin de la Cruz, JC., Perez-Lamban, F., Picazo Millan, JV. and Martinon-Torres, M., 2022 (Accepted for publication). Diverse strategies for copper production in Chalcolithic Iberia Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports,
Doi: http://doi.org/10.1016/j.jasrep.2022.103683

VALCÁRCEL ROJAS, R. and Martinon-Torres, M., 2022 (Accepted for publication). Bernardo Vega y los estudios de arqueometalurgia en el Caribe Cuba Arqueológica. Revista de arqueología de Cuba y el Caribe., v. 16

Plaza, MT., Figueroa, V. and Martinon-Torres, M., 2022 (Accepted for publication). Technology, life histories and circulation of gold objects during the Middle Period (AD 400-1000). A perspective from the Atacama Desert, Chile Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences,

2022

Saussus, L., Hsu, Y-T., Poulain, M., Martinón-Torres, M., Thomas, N. and De Clercq, W., 2022. Refining silver at the castle: the rare case of a large early modern cupel from Middelburg-in-Flanders, Belgium Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences, v. 14
Doi: http://doi.org/10.1007/s12520-022-01655-7

2021 (Accepted for publication)

Veronesi, U. and Martinon-Torres, M., 2021 (Accepted for publication). The Old Ashmolean Museum and Oxford’s Seventeenth-Century Chymical Community: A Material Culture Approach to Laboratory Experiments Ambix,
Doi: http://doi.org/10.1080/00026980.2021.2012314

2021

Legarra Herrero, B. and Martinón-Torres, , 2021. Heterogeneous Production and Enchained Consumption: Minoan Gold in a
Changing World (ca. 2000 BCE)
American Journal of Archaeology, v. 125
Doi: http://doi.org/10.3764/aja.125.3.0333

Plaza, MT. and Martinón-Torres, M., 2021. Technology, Use and Reuse of Gold during the Middle Period: The Case of Casa Parroquial, Atacama Desert, Chile Cambridge Archaeological Journal, v. 31
Doi: http://doi.org/10.1017/S0959774321000123

Calonge, MTP., Pavlovic, D. and Martinón-Torres, M., 2021. Crucibles and moulds from Los Nogales: Technological study of technical ceramics from the Late Period in the Aconcagua Valley, Central Chile Estudios Atacamenos, v. 67
Doi: http://doi.org/10.22199/issn.0718-1043-2021-0008

Martinon-Torres, M. and Birch, T., 2021. The iron bars from the 'Gresham Ship': employing multivariate statistics to further slag inclusion analysis of ferrous objects Historical metallurgy, v. 48

Massa, G., Aldenderfer, M. and Martinon-Torres, M., 2021. Of gold masks, bronze mirrors and brass bracelets: Analyses of metallic artefacts from Samdzong, Upper Mustang, Nepal 450(a)over-cap(sic)650 CE (vol 18, pg 68, 2019) ARCHAEOLOGICAL RESEARCH IN ASIA, v. 25

Montes-Landa, J., Murillo-Barroso, M., Montero-Ruiz, I., Rovira-Llorens, S. and Martinón-Torres, M., 2021. Interwoven traditions in Bell Beaker metallurgy: Approaching the social value of copper at Bauma del Serrat del Pont (Northeast Iberia). PLoS One, v. 16
Doi: http://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0255818

Bustamante, NA., Escobar, JA. and Martinón-Torres, M., 2021. Reverse engineering of ceramic anthropomorphic figurines from the Tumaco archaeological tradition in southwest Colombia. PLoS One, v. 16
Doi: http://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0250230

2020

Massa, G., Aldenderfer, M. and Martinón-Torres, M., 2020. Corrigendum to ‘Of gold masks, bronze mirrors and brass bracelets: analyses of metallic artefacts from Samdzong, Upper Mustang, Nepal 450-650 CE.’ Archaeological Research in Asia 18 (2019) 68–81 Archaeological Research in Asia, v. 21
Doi: http://doi.org/10.1016/j.ara.2019.100155

Veronesi, U., Rehren, T. and Martinón-Torres, M., 2020. The philosophers and the crucibles. New data on the 17th–18th century remains from the Old Ashmolean laboratory, Oxford Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports, v. 35
Doi: http://doi.org/10.1016/j.jasrep.2020.102684

Liu, Y., Martinón-Torres, M., Mei, J., Sun, W., Shao, A. and Chen, K., 2020. Cast a different iron: Grey and mottled cast iron production in early China Journal of Cultural Heritage, v. 46
Doi: http://doi.org/10.1016/j.culher.2020.05.005

Murillo-Barroso, M., Montero-Ruiz, I., Camalich-Massieu, MD., Martín-Socas, D., Labaune, M., Cattin, F., Nieto, JM. and Martinón-Torres, M., 2020. Raw material procurement and selection in Southeast Iberia’s early metallurgy Trabajos de Prehistoria, v. 77
Doi: http://doi.org/10.3989/tp.2020.12248

Arcidiacono, L., Martinón-Torres, M., Senesi, R., Scherillo, A., Andreani, C. and Festa, G., 2020. Cu-based alloys as a benchmark for T-PGAA quantitative analysis at spallation neutron sources Journal of Analytical Atomic Spectrometry, v. 35
Doi: http://doi.org/10.1039/c9ja00268e

Modesto-Mata, M., Dean, MC., Lacruz, RS., Bromage, TG., García-Campos, C., Martínez de Pinillos, M., Martín-Francés, L., Martinón-Torres, M., Carbonell, E., Arsuaga, JL. and Bermúdez de Castro, JM., 2020. Short and long period growth markers of enamel formation distinguish European Pleistocene hominins. Sci Rep, v. 10
Doi: http://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-020-61659-y

Montes-Landa, J., Montero-Ruiz, I., Castanyer Masoliver, P., Santos Retolaza, M., Tremoleda Trilla, J. and Martinón-Torres, M., 2020. Traditions and innovations: versatility of copper and tin bronze making recipes in Iron Age Emporion (L’Escala, Spain) Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences, v. 12
Doi: http://doi.org/10.1007/s12520-020-01081-7

Vieri, J., Uribe-Villegas, MA. and Martinon-Torres, M., 2020. Of forming, gilding and intentionality in Pre-Columbian goldwork: analytical characterisation of artefacts from the Museo del Oro, Bogotá Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports,
Doi: http://doi.org/10.1016/j.jasrep.2020.102626

2019 (Accepted for publication)

Martinon-Torres, M., Murillo-Barroso, M., Montero-Ruiz, I., Nieto, JM., Camalich-Massieu, MD. and Martin Socas, D., 2019 (Accepted for publication). Trace elements and lead isotopic composition of copper deposits from the eastern part of the Internal Zone of the Betic Cordillera (SE Iberia): application to provenance of archaeological materials Journal of Iberian Geology,
Doi: http://doi.org/10.1007/s41513-019-00111-1

Rehren, T., Veronesi, U., Straube, B. and Martinon-Torres, M., 2019 (Accepted for publication). Glassmaking Tests at Early Jamestown? Some New Thoughts and Data Journal of Glass Studies, v. 61
Doi: http://doi.org/10.2307/26862842

Liu, Y., Martinón-Torres, M., Chen, J., Sun, W. and Chen, K., 2019 (Accepted for publication). Iron decarburisation techniques in the eastern Guanzhong Plain, China, during Late Warring States period: an investigation based on slag inclusion analyses Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences,
Doi: http://doi.org/10.1007/s12520-019-00921-5

Hsu, Y-T. and Martinon-Torres, M., 2019 (Accepted for publication). Fire assay and cupellation at the late medieval Porto Mint, Portugal: a technological study Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports,

2019

Martinon-Torres, M., Liu, Y., Chen, K., Mei, J., Shao, A. and Sun, W., 2019. Scientific analysis and related issues of iron objects unearthed from the Qin cemetery at Xinfeng in the Lintong County, Shaanxi Province. 陕西临潼新丰秦墓出土铁器的科学分析及相关问题 (article is in chinese). Archaeology: Kaogu,

Veronesi, U., Rehren, T., Straube, B. and Martinón-Torres, M., 2019. Testing the New World: early modern chemistry and mineral prospection at colonial Jamestown, 1607–1610 Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences, v. 11
Doi: http://doi.org/10.1007/s12520-019-00945-x

Birch, T. and Martinón-Torres, M., 2019. Shape as a measure of weapon standardisation: From metric to geometric morphometric analysis of the Iron Age ‘Havor’ lance from Southern Scandinavia Journal of Archaeological Science, v. 101
Doi: http://doi.org/10.1016/j.jas.2018.11.002

Chen, K., Mei, J., Rehren, T., Liu, S., Yang, W., Martinón-Torres, M., Zhao, C., Hirao, Y., Chen, J. and Liu, Y., 2019. Hanzhong bronzes and highly radiogenic lead in Shang period China Journal of Archaeological Science, v. 101
Doi: http://doi.org/10.1016/j.jas.2018.11.010

Wood, JR., Montero-Ruiz, I. and Martinon-Torres, M., 2019. From Iberia to the Southern Levant: The Movement of Silver Across the Mediterranean in the Early Iron Age Journal of World Prehistory, v. 32
Doi: http://doi.org/10.1007/s10963-018-09128-3

Liu, S., Rehren, T., Qin, D., Chen, J., Zhou, W., Martinón-Torres, M., Huang, X. and Qian, W., 2019. Coal-fuelled crucible lead-silver smelting in 12th-13th century China: A technological innovation in the age of deforestation Journal of Archaeological Science, v. 104
Doi: http://doi.org/10.1016/j.jas.2019.01.004

Benzonelli, A., Martinon-Torres, M., Stos-Gale, Z. and Henry, R., 2019. Argentiferous copper extraction and post-medieval metals trade: identification and origins of post-medieval Reißscheiben ingots found in Wiltshire, England Historical Metallurgy Vol. 52.1,

Martinón-Torres, M., Lobo Guerrero Arenas, J., Veronesi, U. and White, H., 2019. Goldsmithing traditions and innovations in colonial Colombia: an analytical study of crucibles from Santa Cruz de Mompox Post-Medieval Archaeology, v. 52
Doi: http://doi.org/10.1080/00794236.2018.1515384

Martinón-Torres, M., Li, X., Xia, Y., Benzonelli, A., Bevan, A., Ma, S., Huang, J., Wang, L., Lan, D., Liu, J., Liu, S., Zhao, Z., Zhao, K. and Rehren, T., 2019. Surface chromium on Terracotta Army bronze weapons is neither an ancient anti-rust treatment nor the reason for their good preservation. Sci Rep, v. 9
Doi: http://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-019-40613-7

Massa, G., Aldenderfer, M. and Martinón-Torres, M., 2019. Of gold masks, bronze mirrors and brass bracelets: Analyses of metallic artefacts from Samdzong, Upper Mustang, Nepal 450–650 CE Archaeological Research in Asia,
Doi: http://doi.org/10.1016/j.ara.2019.02.004

Martinon-Torres, M., Henry, R. and Benzonelli, A., 2019. Two Reißscheiben copper ingots from Bromham Wiltshire Archaeological and Natural History Magazine, v. 112

Arcidiacono, L., Parmentier, A., Festa, G., Martinón-Torres, M., Andreani, C. and Senesi, R., 2019. Validation of a new data-analysis software for multiple-peak analysis of γ spectra at ISIS pulsed Neutron and Muon Source Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research, Section A: Accelerators, Spectrometers, Detectors and Associated Equipment, v. 938
Doi: http://doi.org/10.1016/j.nima.2019.05.094

2018 (Accepted for publication)

Radivojevic, M., Roberts, B., Pernicka, E., Stos-Gale, Z., Martinon-Torres, M., Rehren, T., Bray, P., Brandherm, D., Ling, J., Mei, J., Vandkilde, H., Kristiansen, K., Shennan, S. and Broodbank, C., 2018 (Accepted for publication). The Provenance, Use and Circulation of Metals in the European Bronze Age: The state of debate Journal of Archaeological Research, v. 27
Doi: http://doi.org/10.1007/s10814-018-9123-9

2018

Hein, A., Kilikoglou, V. and Martinon-Torres, M., 2018. Heat transfer properties of post-medieval crucibles Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences,
Doi: http://doi.org/10.1007/s12520-018-0669-8

Wang, L., Chen, F., Wang, Y., Qian, W., Mei, J., Martinón-Torres, M. and Chen, K., 2018. Copper metallurgy in prehistoric upper Ili Valley, Xinjiang, China Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences,
Doi: http://doi.org/10.1007/s12520-018-0679-6

Murillo-Barroso, M., Penalver, E., Bueno, P., Barroso, R., de Balbin, R. and Martinon-Torres, M., 2018. Amber in prehistoric Iberia: New data and a review PLoS ONE, v. 13
Doi: http://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0202235

Larreina-Garcia, D., Li, Y., Liu, Y. and Martinón-Torres, M., 2018. Bloomery iron smelting in the Daye County (Hubei): Technological traditions in Qing China Archaeological Research in Asia, v. 16
Doi: http://doi.org/10.1016/j.ara.2018.10.001

Veronesi, U. and Martinón‐Torres, M., 2018. Glass and Alchemy in Early Modern Europe: An Analytical Study of Glassware from the Oberstockstall Laboratory in Austria Angewandte Chemie, v. 130
Doi: http://doi.org/10.1002/ange.201712523

Bevan, A., Li, X., Zhao, Z., Huang, J., Laidlaw, S., Xi, N., Xia, Y., Ma, S. and Martinon-Torres, M., 2018. Ink marks, bronze crossbows and their implications for the Qin Terracotta Army Heritage Science, v. 6
Doi: http://doi.org/10.1186/s40494-018-0239-5

Veronesi, U. and Martinón-Torres, M., 2018. Glass and Alchemy in Early Modern Europe: An Analytical Study of Glassware from the Oberstockstall Laboratory in Austria. Angew Chem Int Ed Engl, v. 57
Doi: http://doi.org/10.1002/anie.201712523

González Álvarez, D., Marín Suárez, C., Farci, C., López Gómez, P., López-Sáez, JA., Martínez Barrio, C., Martinón-Torres, M., Menéndez Blanco, A., Moreno-García, M., Núñez De La Fuente, S., Peña-Chocarro, L., Pérez-Jordá, G., Rodríguez-Hernández, J., Tejerizo García, C. and Fernández Mier, M., 2018. El Castru (Vigaña, Balmonte de Miranda, Asturias): A small hillfort in the western area of the Cantabrian Mountains in the Iron Age Munibe Antropologia-Arkeologia, v. 69
Doi: http://doi.org/10.21630/maa.2018.69.14

Martinon Torres, M., Uribe-Villegas, MA., Sáenz-Samper, J. and Lobo Guerrero Arenas, J., 2018. Archaeometallurgy in Colombia: recent developments Archaeology International, v. 20
Doi: http://doi.org/10.5334/ai.354

2017 (Published online)

Martinón-Torres, M., Uribe-Villegas, MA., Sáenz-Samper, J. and Lobo-Guerrero, J., 2017 (Published online). Archaeometallurgy in Colombia: Recent Developments Archaeology International, v. 20
Doi: http://doi.org/10.5334/ai-354

2017 (No publication date)

Radivojevic, M., Pendic, J., Srejic, A., Korac, M., Kamberovic, Z., Martinon-Torres, M., Davey, C., Jovanovic, N. and Benzonelli, A., 2017 (No publication date). Photographs of Cu-As-Sn binary and ternary metal pellets as supporting material for the article: "Experimental design of the Cu-As-Sn ternary colour diagram"

2017

Saénz-Samper, J. and Martinón-Torres, M., 2017. Depletion gilding, innovation and life-histories: The changing colours of Nahuange metalwork Antiquity, v. 91
Doi: http://doi.org/10.15184/aqy.2017.97

Murillo-Barroso, M., Martinón-Torres, M., Massieu, MDC., Socas, DM. and González, FM., 2017. Early metallurgy in SE Iberia. The workshop of Las Pilas (Mojácar, Almería, Spain) Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences, v. 9
Doi: http://doi.org/10.1007/s12520-016-0451-8

Wood, JR., Charlton, MF., Murillo-Barroso, M. and Martinón-Torres, M., 2017. Gold parting, iridium and provenance of ancient silver: A reply to Pernicka Journal of Archaeological Science, v. 86
Doi: http://doi.org/10.1016/j.jas.2017.07.005

Benzonelli, A., Freestone, IC. and Martinón‐Torres, M., 2017. A Better Shade of Black: Effects of Manufacturing Parameters on the Development of Ancient Black Bronzes* Archaeometry, v. 59
Doi: http://doi.org/10.1111/arcm.12299

Wood, JR., Charlton, MF., Murillo-Barroso, M. and Martinón-Torres, M., 2017. Iridium to provenance ancient silver Journal of Archaeological Science, v. 81
Doi: http://doi.org/10.1016/j.jas.2017.03.002

Farci, C., Martinón-Torres, M. and Álvarez, DG., 2017. Bronze production in the Iron Age of the Iberian Peninsula: The case of El Castru, Vigaña (Asturias, NW Spain) Journal of Archaeological Science Reports, v. 11
Doi: http://doi.org/10.1016/j.jasrep.2016.12.009

Radivojevic, M., Pendic, J., Srejic, A., Korac, M., Davey, C., Benzonelli, A., Martinon-Torres, M., Jovanovic, N. and Kamberovic, Z., 2017. Experimental design of the Cu-As-Sn ternary colour diagram Journal of Archaeological Science,

2016 (Published online)

Armada, X-L. and Martinón-Torres, M., 2016 (Published online). The ALBIMEH Project – Atlantic Late Bronze Age Metal Hoards Compared Archaeology International, v. 19
Doi: http://doi.org/10.5334/ai.1908

2016

Adams, S., Martinón-Torres, M. and Webley, L., 2016. Diversity in iron age metalworking: A unique crucible from Westwood, Coventry Historical Metallurgy, v. 50

Asinelli, MG. and Martinón-Torres, M., 2016. Copper-alloy use in a Tyrrhenian medieval town: The case of Leopoli-Cencelle (Italy) Journal of Archaeological Science Reports, v. 7
Doi: http://doi.org/10.1016/j.jasrep.2015.09.023

Killick, D., Miller, D., Thondhlana, TP. and Martinón-Torres, M., 2016. Copper mining and smelting technology in the northern Lowveld, South Africa, ca. 1000 CE to ca. 1880 CE Journal of Archaeological Science, v. 75
Doi: http://doi.org/10.1016/j.jas.2016.08.011

Thondhlana, TP., Martinón-Torres, M. and Chirikure, S., 2016. The archaeometallurgical reconstruction of early second-millennium AD metal production activities at Shankare Hill, northern Lowveld, South Africa Azania Archaeological Research in Africa, v. 51
Doi: http://doi.org/10.1080/0067270x.2016.1173309

Li, X., Bevan, A., Martinón-Torres, M., Xia, Y. and Zhao, K., 2016. Marking practices and the making of the Qin Terracotta Army Journal of Anthropological Archaeology, v. 42
Doi: http://doi.org/10.1016/j.jaa.2016.04.002

2015 (Accepted for publication)

Martinon-Torres, M., Bevan, A. and Li, XJ., 2015 (Accepted for publication). Mapas de distribución, estadística espacial y organización de la producción en arqueología: las armas de bronce de los guerreros de terracota de Xi'an, China Sémata: Ciencias Sociais e Humanidades,

2015

Ting, C., Martinón-Torres, M., Graham, E. and Helmke, C., 2015. The production and exchange of moulded-carved ceramics and the 'Maya Collapse' Journal of Archaeological Science, v. 62
Doi: http://doi.org/10.1016/j.jas.2015.06.013

Torrence, R., Martinón-Torres, M. and Rehren, T., 2015. Forty years and still growing: Journal of Archaeological Science looks to the future Journal of Archaeological Science, v. 56
Doi: http://doi.org/10.1016/j.jas.2015.03.001

Liu, S., Rehren, T., Chen, J., Xu, C., Venunan, P., Larreina-Garcia, D. and Martinón-Torres, M., 2015. Bullion production in imperial China and its significance for sulphide ore smelting world-wide Journal of Archaeological Science, v. 55
Doi: http://doi.org/10.1016/j.jas.2014.12.023

Martinón-Torres, M. and Uribe-Villegas, MA., 2015. The prehistoric individual, connoisseurship and archaeological science: The Muisca goldwork of Colombia Journal of Archaeological Science, v. 63
Doi: http://doi.org/10.1016/j.jas.2015.08.014

Murillo-Barroso, M., Martinón-Torres, M., Sanjuán, LG., Wheatley, D., Ortiz, MAH., González, MF. and Arnedo, MJH., 2015. New objects in old structures. The Iron Age hoard of the Palacio III megalithic funerary complex (Almadén de la Plata, Seville, Spain) Journal of Archaeological Science, v. 57
Doi: http://doi.org/10.1016/j.jas.2015.03.013

Ma, S., Martinón-Torres, M. and Li, Z., 2015. Identification of beeswax excavated from the Han Period Mausoleum M1 of the King of Jiangdu, Jiangsu, China Journal of Archaeological Science Reports, v. 4
Doi: http://doi.org/10.1016/j.jasrep.2015.10.023

Martinón-Torres, M. and Uribe-Villegas, MA., 2015. Technology and Culture in the Invention of Lost-wax Casting in South America: an Archaeometric and Ethnoarchaeological Perspective Cambridge Archaeological Journal, v. 25
Doi: http://doi.org/10.1017/s0959774314001164

Martinón-Torres, M., Knight, D., Tomic, S., Johnson, JA., Brock, WH., Herran, N., Maestrutti, M. and Fors, H., 2015. Laboratories of Art. Alchemy and Art Technology from Antiquity to the 18th Century Ambix, v. 62
Doi: http://doi.org/10.1080/00026980.2015.1129853

Plaza, MT. and Martinón-Torres, M., 2015. Metallurgical traditions under Inka rule: a technological study of metals and technical ceramics from the Aconcagua Valley, Central Chile Journal of Archaeological Science, v. 54
Doi: http://doi.org/10.1016/j.jas.2014.11.029

2014

Rojas, RV., Iglesias, LP., Rodríguez, EG., Hofman, C., Knight, VJ., Hoogland, M., Martinón-Torres, M., Weston, D., Laffoon, JE., Bayliss, A., Newsom, LA., Mickleburgh, HL., Van Duijvenbode, A., Persons, AB., Cooper, J., Rodríguez, JG. and Ramírez, JAC., 2014. New archaeological investigations in El Chorro de Maíta: From indigenous space to a scenario of colonial domination Anales De La Academia De Ciencias De Cuba, v. 4

Bevan, A., Li, X., Martinón-Torres, M., Green, S., Xia, Y., Zhao, K., Zhao, Z., Ma, S., Cao, W. and Rehren, T., 2014. Computer vision, archaeological classification and China's terracotta warriors Journal of Archaeological Science, v. 49
Doi: http://doi.org/10.1016/j.jas.2014.05.014

Zhou, W., Martinón-Torres, M., Chen, J. and Li, Y., 2014. Not so efficient, but still distilled: the technology of Qing Dynasty zinc production at Dafengmen, Chongqing, southwest China Journal of Archaeological Science, v. 43
Doi: http://doi.org/10.1016/j.jas.2014.01.009

Li, XJ., Bevan, A., Martinón-Torres, M., Rehren, T., Cao, W., Xia, Y. and Zhao, K., 2014. Crossbows and imperial craft organisation: the bronze triggers of China's Terracotta Army Antiquity, v. 88
Doi: http://doi.org/10.1017/s0003598x00050262

Martinón-Torres, M., Li, XJ., Bevan, A., Xia, Y., Zhao, K. and Rehren, T., 2014. Forty Thousand Arms for a Single Emperor: From Chemical Data to the Labor Organization Behind the Bronze Arrows of the Terracotta Army Journal of Archaeological Method and Theory, v. 21
Doi: http://doi.org/10.1007/s10816-012-9158-z

Martinon-Torres, M., Ladra, L. and Armada, XL., 2014. Ourivería galaica no Museo das Mariñas: a Colección Seoane Anuario Brigantino, v. 37

2013 (Published online)

Cockrell, B., Martinón-Torres, M. and Graham, E., 2013 (Published online). Negotiating a colonial Maya identity: metal ornaments from Tipu, Belize Open Journal of Archaeometry, v. 1
Doi: http://doi.org/10.4081/arc.2013.e24

2013

Rehren, T., Belgya, T., Jambon, A., Káli, G., Kasztovszky, Z., Kis, Z., Kovács, I., Maróti, B., Martinón-Torres, M., Miniaci, G., Pigott, VC., Radivojević, M., Rosta, L., Szentmiklósi, L. and Szőkefalvi-Nagy, Z., 2013. 5,000 years old Egyptian iron beads made from hammered meteoritic iron Journal of Archaeological Science, v. 40
Doi: http://doi.org/10.1016/j.jas.2013.06.002

Biggs, L., Bellina, B., Martinón-Torres, M. and Pryce, TO., 2013. Prehistoric iron production technologies in the Upper Thai-Malay Peninsula: metallography and slag inclusion analyses of iron artefacts from Khao Sam Kaeo and Phu Khao Thong Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences, v. 5
Doi: http://doi.org/10.1007/s12520-012-0115-2

2012 (Published online)

Martinón-Torres, M., 2012 (Published online). The Archaeology of Alchemy and Chemistry in the Early Modern World: An Afterthought Archaeology International, v. 15
Doi: http://doi.org/10.5334/ai.1508

2012

Zhou, W., Martinón-Torres, M., Chen, J., Liu, H. and Li, Y., 2012. Distilling zinc for the Ming Dynasty: the technology of large scale zinc production in Fengdu, southwest China Journal of Archaeological Science, v. 39
Doi: http://doi.org/10.1016/j.jas.2011.10.021

Villegas, MAU. and Martinon-Torres, M., 2012. Typology, technology, composition and context of Muisca metalwork (Colombia, AD 600-1800): a database Journal of Open Archaeology Data, v. 1
Doi: http://doi.org/10.5334/4f60dd6baa298

Charlton, MF., Blakelock, E., Martinón-Torres, M. and Young, T., 2012. Investigating the production provenance of iron artifacts with multivariate methods Journal of Archaeological Science, v. 39
Doi: http://doi.org/10.1016/j.jas.2012.02.037

Martinón-Torres, M., Rojas, RV., Samper, JS. and Guerra, MF., 2012. Metallic encounters in Cuba: The technology, exchange and meaning of metals before and after Columbus Journal of Anthropological Archaeology, v. 31
Doi: http://doi.org/10.1016/j.jaa.2012.03.006

2011 (Published online)

Martinón-Torres, M., Li, XJ., Bevan, A., Xia, Y., Kun, Z. and Rehren, T., 2011 (Published online). Making Weapons for the Terracotta Army Archaeology International, v. 13
Doi: http://doi.org/10.5334/ai.1316

2011

Martinón-Torres, M. and Ladra, L., 2011. Orígenes del dorado por amalgama: aportaciones desde la orfebrería protohistórica del noroeste de la Península Ibérica Trabajos de Prehistoria, v. 68
Doi: http://doi.org/10.3989/tp.2011.11066

Li, XJ., Martinón-Torres, M., Meeks, ND., Xia, Y. and Zhao, K., 2011. Inscriptions, filing, grinding and polishing marks on the bronze weapons from the Qin Terracotta Army in China Journal of Archaeological Science, v. 38
Doi: http://doi.org/10.1016/j.jas.2010.09.012

PRYCE, TO., POLLARD, M., MARTINÓN‐TORRES, M., PIGOTT, VC. and PERNICKA, E., 2011. SOUTHEAST ASIA'S FIRST ISOTOPICALLY DEFINED PREHISTORIC COPPER PRODUCTION SYSTEM: WHEN DID EXTRACTIVE METALLURGY BEGIN IN THE KHAO WONG PRACHAN VALLEY OF CENTRAL THAILAND? Archaeometry, v. 53
Doi: http://doi.org/10.1111/j.1475-4754.2010.00527.x

Martinon-Torres, M., 2011. Review of: Howard J. Ehrlichman: Conquest, tribute and trade: The quest for precious metals and the birth of globalization Historical metallurgy, v. 45

Martinon-Torres, M., Li, XJ., Bevan, T., Rehren, T., Xia, Y. and Zhao, K., 2011. Standardisation and labour organisation in the bronze triggers of the Qin Terracotta Army [in Chinese] Qin Shihuanglin Bowuyuan Yuankan,

2010

Martinon-Torres, M., Kearns, T. and Rehren, T., 2010. Metal to mould: alloy identification in experimental casting moulds using XRF Historical metallurgy, v. 44

Chaplin, TD., Clark, RJH. and Martinón-Torres, M., 2010. A combined Raman microscopy, XRF and SEM–EDX study of three valuable objects – A large painted leather screen and two illuminated title pages in 17th century books of ordinances of the Worshipful Company of Barbers, London Journal of Molecular Structure, v. 976
Doi: http://doi.org/10.1016/j.molstruc.2010.03.042

Fenn, TR., 2010. Archaeology, History & Science: Integrating Approaches to Ancient Materials . Marcos Martinón-Torres , Thilo Rehren Journal of Anthropological Research, v. 66
Doi: http://doi.org/10.1086/jar.66.4.20798877

Pryce, TO., Pigott, VC., Martinón-Torres, M. and Rehren, T., 2010. Prehistoric copper production and technological reproduction in the Khao Wong Prachan Valley of Central Thailand Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences, v. 2
Doi: http://doi.org/10.1007/s12520-010-0043-y

Murillo-Barroso, M., Pryce, TO., Bellina, B. and Martinón-Torres, M., 2010. Khao Sam Kaeo – an archaeometallurgical crossroads for trans-asiatic technological traditions Journal of Archaeological Science, v. 37
Doi: http://doi.org/10.1016/j.jas.2010.01.036

2009

Rastrelli, A., Miccio, M., Troalen, LG., Martinón-Torres, M., Guerra, MF., Siano, S., Sumbera, A. and Vitobello, ML., 2009. Modern and ancient gold jewellery attributed to the Etruscans: a science-based study ArchéoSciences, v. 33
Doi: http://doi.org/10.4000/archeosciences.2449

MacDonald, KC., Vernet, R., Martinón-Torres, M. and Fuller, DQ., 2009. Dhar Néma: from early agriculture to metallurgy in southeastern Mauritania Azania Archaeological Research in Africa, v. 44
Doi: http://doi.org/10.1080/00671990902811330

Martinon-Torres, M. and Ladra, L., 2009. Variacions tecnoloxicas e preferencias culturais: estudo analitico dos ouros do Castro de Viladonga Croa: Boletin da Asociacion de Amigos do Castro de Viladonga,

Humphris, J., Martinón-Torres, M., Rehren, T. and Reid, A., 2009. Variability in single smelting episodes - a pilot study using iron slag from Uganda Journal of Archaeological Science, v. 36
Doi: http://doi.org/10.1016/j.jas.2008.09.020

Blakelock, E., Martinón-Torres, M., Veldhuijzen, HA. and Young, T., 2009. Slag inclusions in iron objects and the quest for provenance: an experiment and a case study Journal of Archaeological Science, v. 36
Doi: http://doi.org/10.1016/j.jas.2009.03.032

Iles, L. and Martinón-Torres, M., 2009. Pastoralist iron production on the Laikipia Plateau, Kenya: wider implications for archaeometallurgical studies Journal of Archaeological Science, v. 36
Doi: http://doi.org/10.1016/j.jas.2009.06.023

Thondhlana, TP. and Martinón-Torres, M., 2009. Small Size, High Value: Composition and Manufacture of Second Millennium AD Copper-Based Beads from Northern Zimbabwe Journal of African Archaeology, v. 7
Doi: http://doi.org/10.3213/1612-1651-10119

2008

Martinón-Torres, M., Thomas, N., Rehren, T. and Mongiatti, A., 2008. Some problems and potentials of the study of cupellation remains: the case of post-medieval Montbéliard, France ArchéoSciences, v. 32
Doi: http://doi.org/10.4000/archeosciences.948

Martinon-Torres, M. and Verrocchio, V., 2008. Triangular crucibles from the Convent of San Domenico in L'Aquila Archeologia Postmedievale, v. 12

Martinon-Torres, M., 2008. Los orígenes alquímicos de la química moderna: una perspectiva arqueológica Anales de Quimica,

Martinon-Torres, M., 2008. El secreto de los crisoles de Hesse Investigacion y Ciencia,

Martinón‐Torres, M., Freestone, IC., Hunt, A. and Rehren, T., 2008. Mass‐Produced Mullite Crucibles in Medieval Europe: Manufacture and Material Properties Journal of the American Ceramic Society, v. 91
Doi: http://doi.org/10.1111/j.1551-2916.2008.02383.x

Martinon-Torres, M., 2008. ¿Hay futuro para la arqueometría ibérica? / Is there a future for Iberian archaeometry? El VII Congreso Ibérico de Arqueometría (Madrid, 8-10 octubre 2007) Trabajos de Prehistoria, v. 65
Doi: http://doi.org/10.3989/tp.2008.v65.i2

2007

Martinon-Torres, M., Valcarcel Rojas, R., Cooper, J. and Rehren, T., 2007. Oro, guanines y latón. Metales en contextos aborígenes de Cuba El Caribe Arqueológico, v. 10

Martinón-Torres, M., Rojas, RV., Cooper, J. and Rehren, T., 2007. Metals, microanalysis and meaning: a study of metal objects excavated from the indigenous cemetery of El Chorro de Maíta, Cuba Journal of Archaeological Science, v. 34
Doi: http://doi.org/10.1016/j.jas.2006.04.013

Martinon-Torres, M. and Rehren, T., 2007. Trials and errors in search of mineral wealth: metallurgical experiments in early colonial Jamestown Rittenhouse: The Journal of the American Scientific Instrument Enterprise, v. 21

2006 (Published online)

Martinón-Torres, M., Cooper, J., Rojas, RV. and Rehren, T., 2006 (Published online). Diversifying the picture: indigenous responses to European arrival in Cuba Archaeology International, v. 10
Doi: http://doi.org/10.5334/ai.1008

2006

Martinon-Torres, M., Thomas, N., Rehren, T. and Goy, C., 2006. La fouille archéologique du quartier Velotte à Montbéliard: nouvelles données sur des opérations de chimie oubliées Bulletin de la Société d’émulation de Montbéliard, v. 155

Martinón-Torres, M., Rehren, T. and Freestone, IC., 2006. Mullite and the mystery of Hessian wares. Nature, v. 444
Doi: http://doi.org/10.1038/444437a

2005

Martinon-Torres, M. and Rehren, T., 2005. Alchemy, chemistry and metallurgy in Renaissance Europe: a wider context for fire-assay remains Historical Metallurgy, v. 39

2004 (Published online)

Martinon-Torres, M., 2004 (Published online). “34th International Symposium on Archaeometry: Archaeometallurgy”, Zaragoza, Spain, 3rd-7th May 2004 Papers from the Institute of Archaeology, v. 15
Doi: http://doi.org/10.5334/pia.218

2004

Martinon-Torres, M., 2004. Xaquin Lorenzo "Xocas", E a min, ¿que? Revista 43N8W, v. 8

2003 (Published online)

Martinon-Torres, M., Rehren, T. and von Osten, S., 2003 (Published online). A 16th century lab in a 21st century lab: archaeometric study of the laboratory equipment from Oberstockstall (Kirchberg am Wagram, Austria) Antiquity: a quarterly review of archaeology, v. 77

2003

Martinon-Torres, M., 2003. Química en arqueología y la arqueología de la química: el ensayo Gallaecia, v. 22

2002 (Published online)

Martinon-Torres, M., 2002 (Published online). Holtorf, Cornelius J. 2000-2. Monumental Past: The Life-histories of Megalithic Monuments in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern (Germany) Papers from the Institute of Archaeology, v. 13
Doi: http://doi.org/10.5334/223

Martinon-Torres, M., 2002 (Published online). Holtorf, Cornelius J. 2000-2. Monumental Past: The Life-histories of Megalithic Monuments in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern (Germany) Papers from the Institute of Archaeology, v. 13
Doi: http://doi.org/10.5334/pia.171

2002

Martinon-Torres, M., 2002. Chaîne opératoire: the concept and its applications within the study of technology Gallaecia, v. 21

Martinon-Torres, M., 2002. Agricola and Zwickau: theory and practice of Renaissance brass production in SE Germany Historical metallurgy, v. 36

2001

Martinón-Torres, M., 2001. Los megalitos de término. Crónica del valor territorial de los monumentos megalíticos a partir de las fuentes escritas Trabajos de Prehistoria, v. 58
Doi: http://doi.org/10.3989/tp.2001.v58.i1.235

2000

Martinon-Torres, M., 2000. Murguía e a arqueoloxía galega Boletín da Real Academia Galega,

Martinon-Torres, M., 2000. Análsis del 'Megalitismo Céltico' en la Galicia del siglo XIX Gallaecia,

Theses / dissertations

2024 (No publication date)

Vieri, J., 2024 (No publication date). Bayesian regional models of gold and copper alloys from pre-Hispanic Colombia

2023 (No publication date)

Montes Landa, J., 2023 (No publication date). Understanding the selection and co-existence of tin bronze alloying techniques in Antiquity. An experimental and archaeological approach with Northeast Iberia as case study (2800-200BC).

Book chapters

2024

Blakelock, E., Stos-Gale, Z. and Martinon-Torres, M., 2024. Non-Ferrous Metalworking

2023 (Published online)

Martinon-Torres, M., 2023 (Published online). The Study of Archaeological Materials: Challenges and Future Direction

2023

Martinon-Torres, M., Xi, L., Bevan, A. and Rehren, T., 2023. Arqueología, Ciencia y el Complejo Funerario del Primer Emperador de China.

Georgakopoulou, M. and Martinon-Torres, M., 2023. Portable XRF as a guiding tool for sampling in archaeometallurgy

Guerra, MF., Troalen, L., Martinon-Torres, M., Lemasson, Q., Moignard, B., Pacheco, C., Pichon, L., Radtke, M., Reinholz, U., MacDonald, L., Hess, M. and Tissot, I., 2023. Analytical approaches to Egyptian goldwork.

Guerra, MF., Troalen, L., Tate, J., La Niece, S., Miniaci, G., Hacke, M., Pagès-Camagna, S., Martinon-Torres, M. and Quirke, S., 2023. Second Intermediate Period jewellery.
Doi: http://doi.org/10.17863/CAM.99684

2022

Benzonelli, A., Legarra Herrero, B. and Martinon-Torres, M., 2022. Technological and chemical analyses of the gold items of the Sissi Project (2011-2019)

2021

Uribe Villegas, MA. and Martinon-Torres, M., 2021. Los orfebres, las ofrendas y el oro entre los Muiscas. Resultados de una investigación arqueometalúrgica en las figuras votivas de metal

Uribe Villegas, MA., Martinon-Torres, M. and Quintero Guzman, JP., 2021. The Muisca Raft: Context, Materiality and Technology

2020 (No publication date)

Martinon-Torres, M., 2020 (No publication date). Ore and Smelting Slag

2020

Adlington, LW., Freestone, IC., Seliger, L., Martinon-Torres, M., Brock, F. and Shortland, A., 2020. In situ methodology for compositional grouping of medieval stained glass windows: introducing the ‘WindowLyzer’ for handheld X-ray fluorescence spectrometry, in Orna

2018

Martinon-Torres, M. and Dikomitou-Eliadou, M., 2018. Portable X-ray fluorescence analysis of Early and Middle Bronze Age ceramics from the necropolis at Lapithos Vrysi tou Barba. Results of the first analytical campaign v. CXLVIII

2017

Martinon-Torres, M., Chirikure, S., Thondhlana, TP. and Rehren, T., 2017. The Mutapa and the Portuguese: archaeometallurgy and regional interaction in southern Africa
Doi: http://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctvh9vz54.13

2015 (Published online)

2015

Martinon-Torres, M., Murillo-Barroso, M., Pryce, TO. and Bellina, B., 2015. Khao Sam Kaeo: an archaeometallurgical crossroads for Trans-Asiatic technological traditions

2014 (Published online)

Martinon-Torres, M., 2014 (Published online). The Cargo v. II

Martinon-Torres, M., Xia, Y., Li, XJ., Rehren, T. and Zhao, K., 2014 (Published online). 秦俑坑出土铜镞铤的金相及电镜能谱初步分析 (An initial analysis of the arrow tangs and swords from the Qin Terracotta Army)

Martinon-Torres, M., Xia, Y., Li, XJ., Zhao, K. and Rehren, T., 2014 (Published online). 打描电镜下的青铜兵器铭文及加工痕迹 (Inscriptions and other tool marks on the bronze weapons observed under the Scanning Electron Microscope)

Martinon-Torres, M., Bevan, A. and Li, XJ., 2014 (Published online). 冶金及手工业生产的空间统计学分析 (A quantitative spatial analysis of metallurgical and other craft activities)

Martinon-Torres, M., Li, XJ., Bevan, A., Xia, Y., Zhao, K. and Rehren, T., 2014 (Published online). 为秦始皇打造兵器:秦俑坑兵器的冶金考古学分析 (Making weapons for the First Emperor: an archaeometallurgical analysis of bronze weapons from the Terracotta Army)

Martinon-Torres, M., Ting, C. and Graham, E., 2014 (Published online). Molding the 'Collapse': technological analysis of Terminal Classic molded-carved vases from Altun Ha, Belize
Doi: http://doi.org/10.5339/uclq.2014.cas.ch6

2014

2013

Martinon-Torres, M., 2013. Metals and indigenous societies in the Caribbean islands

2012 (Published online)

2012

Martinon-Torres, M., Li, XJ., Meeks, ND. and Xia, Y., 2012. SEM imaging of toolmarks on Qin bronze weapons using silicone rubber impressions

Martinon-Torres, M. and Dikomitou, M., 2012. Fabricating an island-wide tradition. Red Polished pottery from Early and Middle Bronze Age Cyprus

Martinon-Torres, M. and Saenz Samper, J., 2012. El oro en America v. 187

2011 (Published online)

Holmqvist, V. and Martinon-Torres, M., 2011 (Published online). Many potters - one style: pottery production and distribution in transitional Late Byzantine-early Islamic Palestina Tertia
Doi: http://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-14678-7_10

2011

Martinon-Torres, M. and Saenz Samper, J., 2011. Gold in Amerika

2010

Martinon-Torres, M., 2010. Of marks, prints, pots and becherovka: freemasons' branding in early modern Europe?

Martinon-Torres, M., Valcárcel Rojas, R. and Cooper, J., 2010. Turey treasure in the Caribbean: Brass and Indo-Hispanic contact at El Chorro de Maita, Cuba

2009

Martinon-Torres, M., Thomas, N., Rehren, T. and Mongiatti, A., 2009. Identifying materials, recipes and choices: some suggestions for the study of archaeological cupels

Martinon-Torres, M., Hudgins, CC. and Rehren, T., 2009. From the mines to the colonies: archaeological evidence for the exchange and metallurgical usage of English copper in early seventeenth-century Ireland and Virginia

Martinon-Torres, M., Mongiatti, A. and Rehren, T., 2009. Testing ores for gold and silver in Renaissance Austria: new techniques, new discoveries

Martinon-Torres, M., Mongiatti, A., Rehren, T. and Cech, B., 2009. Smelting of gold and silver ores in Renaissance Austria

2008

Cooper, J., Martinón-Torres, M. and Rojas, RV., 2008. American gold and European brass: Metal objects and indigenous values in the cemetery of el chorro de maíta' Cuba

Martinon-Torres, M. and Rehren, T., 2008. Why should archaeologists take history and science seriously?

Martinon-Torres, M. and Rehren, T., 2008. Metallurgy: Europe

Martinon-Torres, M., 2008. El megalito ha muerto.¡Larga vida al megalito!

Martinon-Torres, M. and Rehren, T., 2008. Naturam ars imitata: European Brassmaking between Craft and Science

2007

Martinon-Torres, M., 2007. Mining in Europe

Martinon-Torres, M., 2007. The Tools of the Chymist: Archaeological and Scientific Analyses of Early Modern Laboratories

2006

Martinon-Torres, M. and Rehren, T., 2006. The 'mystery' of the post-medieval triangular crucibles reconsidered - a global perspective

Martinon-Torres, M., 2006. On the life-histories of megaliths in Northwest Iberia

2005

Martinon-Torres, M. and Rehren, T., 2005. Ceramic materials in fire assay practices: a case study of 16th century laboratory equipment

2000

Martinon-Torres, M., 2000. Murguia visto por Marcos Martinon-Torres

Martinon-Torres, M., Rodriguez, M. and Casal, AA., 2000. Aspectos historiograficos del megalitismo gallego: de la documentacion medieval al siglo XIX

Books

2023

2023. El Legado de las Dinastías Qin y Han. Los Guerreros de Xi’an.

Guerra, MF., Martinón-Torres, M. and Quirke, S., 2023. Ancient Egyptian Gold Archaeology and Science in Jewellery (3500-1000 BC)

2016 (Published online)

2016

Martinón-Torres, M. and Rehren, T., 2016. Preface

2015

2015. Scoping the Future of Archaeological Science: Papers in Honour of Richard Klein v. 56

2014

2014. Craft and science: International perspectives on archaeological ceramics v. 1

2013

Martinon-Torres, M., Uribe, MA., Londono, E., Quintero, JP. and Morales, J., 2013. Historias de ofrendas muiscas / Stories of muisca offerings (exhibition catalogue)

2004

Martinón-Torres, M., 2004. Xaquín Lorenzo "Xocas" confesións e lembranzas para mozos de onte e hoxe

2001

2001. Os monumentos megalíticos despois do megalitismo arqueoloxía e historia dos megalitos galegos a través das fontes escritas (s.VI-s.XIX)

Datasets

2019 (No publication date)

Martinon-Torres, M. and Uribe Villegas, MA., 2019 (No publication date). Data "Typology, technology, composition and context of Muisca metalwork (Colombia, AD 600-1800): a database"

Teaching and Supervisions

Research supervision

I currently supervise research students and postdoctoral fellows on a range of topics related to the above interests, enrolled at the University of Cambridge. I am interested in supervising students who wish to study for an MPhil or a PhD on related subjects, and happy to discuss new departures.

Current postdoctoral research fellows

 Past postdoctoral research fellows

  • Yi Bao (Fudan University, Shanghai, China)
  • Ema Bauzyte, 2019-2021 (funded by Fitzwilliam Museum's Being an Islander Project)
  • Marc Gener-Moret, 2018-2021 (funded Marie Sklodowska-Curie Actions)
  • Pau Sureda, 2018-2020 (funded by Government of Galicia, Spain)
  • Kunlong Chen, 2017-2019 (funded by Newton Fellowship)
  • Eleanor Blakelock, 2017-2019 (funded by Leverhulme Trust)
  • Xose-Lois Armada, 2014-2016 
  • Mike Charlton, 2014-2016 (funded Marie Sklodowska-Curie Actions)
  • Mercedes Murillo-Barroso, 2014-2016 (funded Marie Sklodowska-Curie Actions)

Current students:

  • Mark Davis (UK): Brass vs bronze: Continuity and change from Late Antiquity to the early Islamic period in the Persian Gulf and adjacent regions, funded by AHRC Collaborative Doctoral Partnership with the British Museum
  • Elizabeth La Duc (US): Coal Usage in Romano-British Ferrous Metallurgy: Identification and Interpretation, funded by the Cambridge Trust
  • Laura Arcidiacono UCL (IT): Development of a neutron technique for the non-destructive and non-invasive analysis of archaeological gold artefacts (first supervisor), funded by Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC)
  • Caterina Zaggia (IT): Redefining Egyptian 'pastes': development of a new analytical protocol for the examination of Egyptian coffin sets from the Third Intermediate Period in Thebes (first supervisor), funded by PlaCe ITN project
  • Ismael Rodriguez Palomo (SP): Challenges, approaches and insights in Palaeoproteomics analysis in ceramics (advisor), funded by PlaCe ITN project

Past Students

  • Saltanat Amir (KZ), 2024: Goldsmithing technologies, organic materials and funerary rituals in the Saka societies of the Eurasian Steppe Region during the Iron Age (c. 900 – 100 BCE), funded by Harding Distinguished Postgraduate Scholarships
  • Julia Montes-Landa (SP), 2023: Evolution, co-existence and adaptation of bronze-making recipes in Prehistory: a case study from North-Eastern Iberia (first supervisor), funded by AHRC and Cambridge Trust Vice Chancellor’s Award
  • Yi-Ting Hsu (TW), 2023: Fire assay, cupellation, and the spread of technical knowlede in Early Modern Europe (first supervisor), funded by Taiwan-Cambridge Scholarship
  • Jasmine Vieri (FI), 2023: Bayesian regional models of gold and copper alloys from pre-Hispanic Colombia (first supervisor), funded by AHRC
  • Ole Nordland (NO), 2021: Iron making in Viking Age Scandinavia (c. AD 750-1000): Political power, knowledge transmission and technological changes (first supervisor), funded by AHRC
  • Yaxiong Liu (CN), 2021: Iron and the Rise of the Qin Empire: An Exploration of the Iron Industry and its Social Impact during the Warring States Period (joint first supervisor), funded by Chinese Scholarship Council
  • Umberto Veronesi (IT), 2020: The Alchemy of Early Modern Glass (first supervisor), funded by AHRC
  • Agnese Benzonelli (IT), 2019: Validation of analytical methods for non-invasive characterization of natural and artificial patinas (second supervisor), funded by Tylecote Scholarship
  • Laura Ware Adlington (US), 2018: Investigation of technology, production and deterioration of medieval stained glass using handheld pXRF  (second supervisor), funded by UCL Graduate Scholarship
  • Maria Teresa Plaza Calonge (CL), 2018: Gold technology and the Tiwanaku empire in San Pedro de Atacama, Northern Chile, during the Middle Horizon (AD 400-1000) (first supervisor), funded by Chilean government
  • Jonathan Wood (GB), 2018: The transmission of silver and silver extraction technology across the Mediterranean by the Phoenicians in the 8th and 7th centuries BCE: A precursor for the Classical Age (first supervisor), funded by AHRC
  • David Larreina-García (SP), 2017: Copper and bloomery iron smelting in Central China: Technological traditions in the Daye County (Hubei) (first supervisor), funded by Impact Scholarship 
  • Rahil Alipour (IR), 2017: Persian crucible steel production in Central Iran (AD 802-1431) (joint first supervisor), funded by UCL Qatar 
  • Miguel Carrero (SP), 2017: The megalithic phenomenon in Galicia: Contributions of GIS and spatial statistics to the study of location patterns (second supervisor), funded by Spanish Government Research Scholarship.
  • Pira Venunan (TH), 2016: An archaeometallurgical study of iron production in Ban Kruat, lower Northeast Thailand: technology and social development from the Iron Age (500BC-AD500) to the Imperial Angkorian Khmer (AD802-1431) (first supervisor), funded by Thai Royal Family Scholarship
  • Mainardo Asinelli (IT), 2016: Manufacture and use of copper and copper-alloy artefacts in medieval Tuscia (first supervisor), funded by European Union ITN
  • Siran Liu (CN), 2015: Gold and silver production in Imperial China. Technological choices in their socio-economic and environmental settings (second supervisor), funded by Sino-British Fellowship Trust
  • Ruth Fillery-Travis (UK), 2015: Iron production in the Western Roman Empire: A diachronic study of technology and society based on two archaeological sites (first supervisor), funded by AHRC 
  • Carmen Ting (HK), 2013: Change, continuity, and the Maya Collapse: Reconstructing the ceramic economy in the Eastern Maya Lowlands during the Classic to Postclassic Transition (joint first supervisor), funded by UCL Graduate Scholarship 
  • Thomas Thondhlana (ZB), 2012: Pre-colonial copper production in the Northern Lowveld, South Africa, c. AD 700-1900 (first supervisor), funded by EPSRC and Xstrata
  • Maria Dikomitou (CY), 2012: Ceramic production, distribution and social interaction. An analytical approach to the study of Early and Middle Bronze Age pottery from Cyprus (second supervisor), funded by Leventis Foundation, Cyprus
  • Roseleen Bains (CA), 2012: The social significance of stone bead technology in Neolithic Catalhoyuk, Turkey (second supervisor)
  • Xiuzhen Janice Li (CN), 2012: Standardisation, labour organisation and the bronze weapons of the Qin Terracotta Warriors (joint first supervisor), funded by Kwok Foundation, Hong Kong 
  • Wenli Zhou (CN), 2012: Distilling zinc in China: The technology of large-scale zinc production in Chongqing during the Ming and Qing Dynasties (AD 1368-1911) (first supervisor), funded by Kwok Foundation, Hong Kong
  • Louise Iles (UK), 2011: Technology, society and tradition: reconstructing the iron industries of Bunyoro-Kitara (second supervisor), funded by AHRC 
  • Jane Humphris (UK), 2010: An archaeometallurgical investigation of iron smelting traditions in Southern Rwanda (second supervisor), funded by AHRC 
  • Virpi Holmqvist (FI), 2010: Ceramics in transition: a comparative analytical study of late Byzantine-early Islamic pottery from Palaestina Tertia (joint first supervisor), funded by Ella and Georg Ehrnrooth Foundation, Finland 
  • Aude Mongiatti (FR), 2009: Assaying and smelting noble metals in sixteenth-century Austria: a comparative analytical study (2009, joint first supervisor), funded by EU Marie Curie EST
  • Oliver Pryce (UK), 2009: Copper production and technological reproduction in the Khao Wong Prachan of central Thailand (2009, second supervisor), funded by Tylecote Grant 

Other Professional Activities

  • Co-Chair of the International Scientific Advisory Board, Institute for Heritage Sciences (Incipit), Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas, Spain
  • Scientific Advisory Board Member, Austrian Archaeological Institute, Austrian Academy of Sciences
  • Member of Fitch Laboratory Subcommittee, British School in Athens
  • Expert Panel Member, Icelandic Research Fund
  • Co-Editor-in-Chief, Journal of Archaeological Science
  • Trustee, Institute for Archaeometallurgical Studies
  • Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries of London
  • Editorial Board: Tel Aviv (2020), Pyrenae: Journal of Western Mediterranean Prehistory and AntiquityHistorical Metallurgy (2015), Journal of Archaeological Science (2013), Materialidades: Perspectivas actuales en cultura material, Pyrenae: Journal of Western Mediterranean Prehistory and Antiquity (2012)

 

 

 

Job Titles

Pitt-Rivers Professor of Archaeological Science
Professor Marcos Martinón-Torres

General Info

Available for consultancy
Research Expertise / Fields of study
Material Culture
Artefact Analysis & Technology
Archaeometallurgy
Cultural Evolution

Contact Details

m.martinon-torres [at] arch.cam.ac.uk
McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research
Downing Street
Cambridge
CB2 3ER
01223 (7)60946

Affiliations

Person keywords
Materials science
Material culture
Metallurgy
Archaeological chemistry
Archaeometry
Technology
Subjects
Archaeological Science
Archaeology
Themes
Science, Technology and Innovation
Material Culture
Human Evolutionary Studies
Rethinking Complexity
Geographical areas
Africa
Americas
Britain
East Asia
Europe
Mediterranean
Southeast Asia
Periods of interest
Copper/Bronze Age
Iron Age
Medieval
Other Historical
Other Late Prehistory
Post-Medieval