Yale University - Department of Geology and Geophysics













Robert Gordon
Emeritus Professor

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Office: 207 KGL
Phone: (203) 432-3125
Fax: (203) 432-3134

Research Interests:
Archaeometallurgy,laboratory analysis and interpretation of ancient and historical materials and artifacts. Industrial ecology, technological cycles of metals; mineral resources.

Current Courses:
G&G 465/565a, Archaeology 465/565a, Archaeometallurgy

G&G 205a, Natural Resources and their Sustainability

Selected Publication(s):
Iron Artifacts From the Land of Kush, Journal of Archaeological Science 31 (2004) 979-998. (with Brook Abdu)




Twentieth Century Copper Stocks and Flows in North America: A Dynamic Analysis, Ecological Economics 54 (2005): 37-51 (with S. Spatari and others)



Metal Stocks and Sustainability, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 103-5 (2006): 1209-1214. (with M. Bertram and T. Graedel."





The Texture of Industry, an Archaeological View of the Industriaization of North America, New York: Oxford University Press, 1994 (with Patrick M. Malone."




American Iron, 1607-1900, Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1996."