Acta Praehistorica et Archaeologica 23, 1992. -

Contains 15 papers presented at a symposium on the topic of „Wood tar“ held in the museum village of Düppel, six further papers and eight book reviews. The symposium contributions deal with the changing production, processing, use and significance of pitch and tar [Czarnowski / Neubauer, Weiner, Oettel, Böttcher, Prehn, three times Kurzweil / Todtenhaupt], pottery for boiling tar [Voß, Böttcher], wood as a raw material for energy, chemistry and metallurgy [Osteroth], the possibility of archaeological and palaeobotanical statements on tar [Ruthenberg, Brande / Schumann], Antique texts [Locher] as well as the words "Pech" and "Teer" in German usage [Pietsch]. The other articles deal with a gamma radiographic investigation of Bronze Age daggers with a solid hilt [Wüstemann], an Early Dynastic figurine head of lead bronze [Strommenger], blade repairs on a LBA sword with a solid hilt [Born, Hansen], belt buckles and suspension loops from the Black Sea region [Brentjes], a bronze bucket with dolphin attachments from Golice, Poland [Wielowiejski, Riederer] as well as with the conservation of wet wood by means of polyethyleneglycol [Born, Zimmermann].