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ForewordI have always been convinced that Mössbauer spectrocopy is an exciting tool in the study of prehistory. Combined with archaeological typology and other methods in material science it helps to learn more about the properties of early pottery and to reconstruct the way in which it was made. When Prof. Langouche, Editor in Chief of Hyperfine Interactions, suggested the possibility of a special issue on Mössbauer Spectroscopy in Archaeology, I gladly accepted the task to put it together as a guest editor. I would like to thank Prof. Langouche and Dr. Sabine Freisem, the Publishing Editor, for this opportunity and for their patient support. My thanks also go to the authors, whose contributions had to be written for humanists and at the same time for their colleagues from science. In this respect I hope the issue will be a useful forum to further contacts between the researchers of the different fractions. The publisher agreed to and supported the idea of a general approach stressing the interdisciplinary character of the topic. A number of contributions on supplementary studies supplying information needed to interpret the results of the Mössbauer measurements are included in the issue. As a friendly gesture to the readers from the different fields, Kluwer printed literature references showing full titles, contrary to the normal habit. The case studies describing investigations aiming at well defined problems were written in close contact with archaeologists and many of the studies were conducted during ongoing excavations, so that additional specimes could be collected to pursue a special question. Fitting together the huge amount of available data was a tremendous task which I could not have tackled without the unceasing help of Fritz Wagner, my husband and colleague whose untiring, critical and always constructive refereeing was a decisive contribution during the compiling of the issue. Over time many people have contributed in one or another way and I would like to thank them all, especially Nina Nowak, a student trainee, who compiled the database for the literature references. The amount of material turned out to be such that a publication in two volumes of Hyperfine Interactions seemed warranted. The present volume should, in fact, have been the first to appear, but for various reasons the second volume was printed first, as Volume 150 of HFI. In the literature references, this volume is referred to as Volume 2, while the present one is listed as Volume 1. I would like to apologise for this confusion and hope that nevertheless readers will hopefully enjoy this excursion into the past. Ursel Wagner Guest editor Munich
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