Other Papers
(2012) M.W. Gregg & C.P. Thornton. "A preliminary analysis of the prehistoric pottery from Coon's excavations of Hotu and Belt Caves in northern Iran: Implications for future research into the emergence of village life in western Central Asia." International Journal of Humanities 19(3): 56-94. PDF
(2012) C.P. Thornton. "Archaeometallurgy in the 21st century." Reviews in Anthropology 41(2): 173-187. PDF
(2012) C.P. Thornton. “Iran.” In (D.T. Potts, ed.) A Companion to the Archaeology of the Ancient Near East. Chichester: Wiley-Blackwell, pp. 596-606. PDF
(2012) C.P. Thornton & C. Giardino. "Serge Cleuziou and the 'Tin Problem'." In (J. Giraud & G. Gernez, eds.) Aux Marges de l'archeologie: Hommage a Serge Cleuziou. Paris: De Boccard, Travaux de la Maison Rene-Ginouves, pp. 253-260. PDF
(2011) C.P. Thornton & V.C. Pigott.“Blade-type weaponry of Hasanlu Period IVB.” In (M. de Schauensee, ed.) Peoples and Crafts in Period IVB at Hasanlu, Iran. Hasanlu Special Studies IV. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Museum Monograph 132, pp. 135-182. PDF
(2010) C.P. Thornton. "Shir-e Shian." Encyclopedia Iranica (online). Link
(2010) C.P. Thornton. "Sang-e Chakhmaq." Encyclopedia Iranica (online). Link
(2010) C.P. Thornton. “The rise of arsenical copper in Southeastern Iran.” Iranica Antiqua 45: 31-50. PDF
(2010) C.P. Thornton, J. Golden, D. Killick, V.C. Pigott, Th. Rehren, & B. Roberts. “A Chalcolithic error: A rebuttal to Amzallag 2009.” American Journal of Archaeology 114: 305-315. PDF
(2009) B.W. Roberts, C.P. Thornton, & V.C. Pigott. “The development of metallurgy in Eurasia.” Antiquity 83 (322): 1012-1022. PDF
(2009) C.P. Thornton & B.W. Roberts. “Introduction: The beginnings of metallurgy in global perspective.” Journal of World Prehistory 22(3): 181-184. PDF
(2009) C.P. Thornton. “The emergence of complex metallurgy on the Iranian Plateau: Escaping the Levantine Paradigm.” Journal of World Prehistory 22(3): 301-327. PDF
(2009) C.P. Thornton & Th. Rehren. “A truly refractory crucible from fourth millennium Tepe Hissar, Northeast Iran.” Journal of Archaeological Science 36(12): 2700-2712. PDF
(2009) R.H. Dyson Jr. & C.P. Thornton. “Shir-i Shian and the fifth millennium of Northern Iran.” Iran 47: 1-22. PDF
(2009) C.P. Thornton. “Archaeometallurgy: Evidence of a paradigm shift?” Metals and Societies. Studies in honour of Barbara S. Ottaway. (T.K. Kienlin & B.W. Roberts, Eds.) Universitätsforschungen zur prähistorischen Archäologie. Bonn: Habelt, pp. 25-33. PDF
(2009) C.P. Thornton, Th. Rehren, & V.C. Pigott. “The production of speiss (iron arsenide) during the Early Bronze Age in Iran.” Journal of Archaeological Science 36(2): 308-316. PDF
(2008) C.P. Thornton & C. Giardino. “Alla ricerca di un paradigma archeometallurgico.” Rivista di Scienze Preistoriche 58: 385-404. PDF
(2007) C.P. Thornton. “Of brass and bronze in prehistoric Southwest Asia.” In (S. La Niece, D. Hook, & P. Craddock, eds.) Metals and Mines: Studies in Archaeometallurgy. London: Archetype Publications, pp. 123-135. PDF
(2007) C.P. Thornton & Th. Rehren. “Report on the first Iranian prehistoric slag workshop.” Iran XLV, pp. 315-318. PDF
(2005) C.P. Thornton, C.C. Lamberg-Karlovsky, Martin Liezers, and Suzanne M.M. Young. “Stech and Pigott revisited: New evidence for the origin of tin bronze in light of chemical and metallographic analyses of the metal artifacts from Tepe Yahya, Iran.” In (H. Kars & E. Burke, eds.) Proceedings of the 33rd International Symposium on Archaeometry, 22-26 April 2002, Amsterdam. Geoarchaeological and Bioarchaeological Studies 3. Amsterdam: Vrije Universiteit, pp. 395-398. PDF
(2004) C.P. Thornton & C.C. Lamberg-Karlovsky. “A new look at the prehistoric metallurgy of Southeastern Iran.” Iran XLII: 47-59. PDF
(2004) C.P. Thornton & C.C. Lamberg-Karlovsky. “Tappeh Yahya und die prähistorische Metallurgie in Südostiran.” In (Th. Stöllner, R. Slotta, & A. Vatandoust, eds.) Persiens Antike Pracht. Bochum: Deutsches Bergbaumuseum, pp. 264-273. EngPDF GerPDF
(2004) C.P. Thornton & T.G. Schurr. “Prehistoric ‘Europeans’ in Xinjiang?: A case for multiple interpretations.” In (H. Bolin, ed.) The Interplay of Past and Present. Stockholm: Södertörn Archaeological Studies 1, pp. 85-98. PDF
(2004) C.P. Thornton & T.G. Schurr. “Genes, language, and culture: an example from the Tarim Basin.” Oxford Journal of Archaeology 23.1: 83-106. PDF
(2003) C.P. Thornton & Christine Ehlers. “Early brass in the ancient Near East.” IAMS 23: 3-8. PDF
(2002) Christopher P. Thornton, C.C. Lamberg-Karlovsky, Martin Liezers, & Suzanne M.M. Young. “On pins and needles: Tracing the evolution of copper-base alloying at Tepe Yahya, Iran, via ICP-MS analysis of common-place items”. Journal of Archaeological Science. 29.12: 1451-1460. PDF