Robert Gordon
Robert Gordon is a full professor in the Geology and Geophysics department at Yale. He holds an engineering degree (Yale, 1955), for which he did his work in metullurgy. His research is currently focused in archaeometallurgy (a subject on which he teaches a course); he uses laboratory to interpret ancient and historical metals, slags, and other artifacts. He has also done work in industrial ecology, examining mineral resources, and the technological cycles of metals.

Recent Publications:

Toward a New Iron Age? A Study of Patterns of Resource Exhaustion, Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1987 (with T.C. Koopmans, W.D. Nordhaus and B.J. Skinner).

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.

A Landscape Transformed, New York: Oxford University Press, 2001.

"Iron Artifacts From the Land of Kush," Journal of Archaeological Science, in press, 2004

Email: robert.gordon@yale.edu