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D. Killick

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D. Killick — researcher profile on SciRah

h-index: 28
Works: 127
Citations: 2,865

Most-cited papers

Indigenous African Metallurgy: Nature and Culture
S. Childs, D. Killick
1993159 citations
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Cairo to Cape: The Spread of Metallurgy Through Eastern and Southern Africa
D. Killick
2009126 citations
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Archaeometallurgy: The study of preindustrial mining and metallurgy
D. Killick, Thomas R. Fenn
2012107 citations
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Geological constraints on the use of lead isotopes for provenance in archaeometallurgy
D. Killick, J. Stephens, Thomas R. Fenn
202099 citations
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Review Essay. What do we know about African iron working
D. Killick
200499 citations
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Social constructionist approaches to the study of technology
D. Killick
200498 citations
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Flacourtiaceae
D. Killick
1995Plants of the Rio Grande Delta93 citations Open access
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The awkward adolescence of archaeological science
D. Killick
201590 citations
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King Croesus' Gold: Excavations at Sardis and the History of Gold Refining
D. Killick, A. Ramage, P. Craddock
200082 citations
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Slag identification at Southern African archaeological sites
Duncan E. Miller, D. Killick
200472 citations
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A novel approach to lead isotope provenance studies of tin and bronze: applications to South African, Botswanan and Romanian artifacts
L. Molofsky, D. Killick, M. Ducea, M. Macovei +4 more
201468 citations
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Adaptation of Technology to Culture and Environment: Bloomery Iron Smelting in America and Africa
R. Gordon, D. Killick
1993Technology and Culture54 citations
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The social geography of pottery in Botswana as reconstructed by optical petrography
E. Wilmsen, D. Killick, D. D. Rosenstein, P. Thebe +1 more
200953 citations
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Invention and Innovation in African Iron-smelting Technologies
D. Killick
2015Cambridge Archaeological Journal52 citations
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Smelting of magnetite and magnetite–ilmenite iron ores in the northern Lowveld, South Africa, ca. 1000 CE to ca. 1880 CE
D. Killick, Duncan E. Miller
201451 citations
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From Ores to Metals
D. Killick
201449 citations
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The technology of tin smelting in the Rooiberg Valley, Limpopo Province, South Africa, ca. 1650–1850 CE
S. Chirikure, R. Heimann, D. Killick
201047 citations
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Archaeological Theories and Archaeological Sciences
M. Martinón-Torres, D. Killick
201345 citations
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Gold and Gold Mining in Ancient Egypt and Nubia
D. Killick
201345 citations
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Did China Import Metals from Africa in the Bronze Age
S.-R. Liu, K.-L. Chen, T. Rehren, J. Mei +3 more
201843 citations Open access
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The strange case of the earliest silver extraction by European colonists in the New World
A. Thibodeau, D. Killick, J. Ruíz, J. Chesley +3 more
2007Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America41 citations Open access
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Isotopic evidence for the provenance of turquoise in the southwestern United States
A. Thibodeau, D. Killick, Saul L. Hedquist, J. Chesley +1 more
201539 citations
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Metal Working in the Northern Lowveld, South Africa A.D. 1000–1890
Duncan E. Miller, D. Killick, N. J. van der Merwe
200128 citations
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Was Aztec and Mixtec turquoise mined in the American Southwest?
A. Thibodeau, Leonardo López Luján, D. Killick, F. Berdan +1 more
2018Science Advances27 citations Open access
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A global perspective on the pyrotechnologies of Sub-Saharan Africa
D. Killick
201626 citations
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Scientific analysis in archaeology and its interpret ation
D. Killick, J. Henderson
199226 citations
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Technology and Social Agency: Outlining a Practice Theory for Archaeology
D. Killick
200224 citations
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A little-known extractive process: Iron smelting in natural-draft furnaces
D. Killick
199123 citations
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A quiet crisis in American archaeology
D. Killick, P. Goldberg
200922 citations
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Archaeology and archaeometry: from casual dating to a meaningful relationship?
D. Killick, S. M. Young
1997Antiquity22 citations
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Lead isotopes link copper artefacts from northwestern Botswana to the Copperbelt of Katanga Province, Congo
J. Stephens, D. Killick, E. Wilmsen, J. Denbow +1 more
202021 citations
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Use of non-traditional heavy stable isotopes in archaeological research
J. Stephens, M. Ducea, D. Killick, J. Ruíz
202120 citations
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Copper mining and smelting technology in the northern Lowveld, South Africa, ca. 1000 CE to ca. 1880 CE
D. Killick, Duncan E. Miller, T. Thondhlana, M. Martinón-Torres
201620 citations Open access
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A Chalcolithic Error: Rebuttal to Amzallag 2009
C. Thornton, J. Golden, D. Killick, V. Pigott +2 more
2010American Journal of Archaeology18 citations Open access
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Mineralogical study of precolonial (1650–1850 CE) tin smelting slags from Rooiberg, Limpopo Province, South Africa
R. Heimann, S. Chirikure, D. Killick
201017 citations
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Reconstructing the geological provenance and long-distance movement of rectangular, fishtail, and croisette copper ingots in Iron Age Zambia and Zimbabwe
J. Stephens, D. Killick, S. Chirikure
2023PLoS ONE14 citations Open access
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Investigation of provenances of Early Islamic lead glazes from northern Central Asia using elemental and lead isotope analyses
C. Klesner, Virginie Renson, Y. Akymbek, D. Killick
2021Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences14 citations
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Ironworking on the Swahili Coast of Kenya
C. Kusimba, D. Killick
200313 citations
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A study of iron smelting at Lopanzo, Equateur Province, Zaïre
Kyle J. Ackerman, D. Killick, Eugenia W. Herbert, Colleen E. Kriger
199913 citations
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Lead isotope and metal source of Shang bronzes: a response to Sun et al .’s comments
S.-R. Liu, K.-L. Chen, T. Rehren, J. Mei +3 more
2018Archaeometry11 citations
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Moijabana Rocks-Pilikwe Pots: The Acceleration of Clay Formation by Potters Employing Simple Mechanical Means
E. Wilmsen, A. Griffiths, P. Thebe, D. Killick +1 more
201611 citations
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An Early Paleoindian Bead from the Mockingbird Gap Site, New Mexico
V. Holliday, D. Killick
2013Current Anthropology11 citations
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An Alternative Approach to the Prehispanic Turquoise Trade
A. Thibodeau, J. Chesley, J. Ruíz, D. Killick +1 more
201211 citations
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An historical account of iron smelting in the Lowveld, South Africa
Duncan E. Miller, M. Mulaudzi, D. Killick
200211 citations
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Connection and Competition: some early insights gained from petrographic studies of New Caledonian Lapita pottery
Scarlett Chiu, D. Killick, C. Sand, W. Dickinson
201610 citations
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New Combinations in African Myricaceae
D. Killick, R. Polhill, B. Verdcourt
199810 citations
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A Tin Lerale from the Soutpansberg, Northern Transvaal, South Africa
D. Killick
199110 citations
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Archaeology and oral tradition in Malawi: origins and early history of the Chewa
D. Killick
2020Azania9 citations
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Canyon Creek revisited: New investigations of a late prehispanic turquoise mine, Arizona, USA
Saul L. Hedquist, A. Thibodeau, J. Welch, D. Killick
20179 citations Open access
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Comments IV: Is there really a chasm between archaeological theory and archaeological science?
D. Killick
20059 citations
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