Salgado-Pizarro, RebecaCamacho, SaraMontón Subías, SandraMoragas, NataliaFernández, Ana Inés2023-03-142023-03-142023Salgado-Pizarro R, Camacho S, Montón-Subías S, Moragas N, Fernández AI. Reused and recycled. Archeometallurgical study of historical nails found in Guam, Mariana Islands, Western Pacific. Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports. 2023 Feb;47:103746. DOI: 10.1016/j.jasrep.2022.1037460305-4403http://hdl.handle.net/10230/56199This article presents the results of the archaeometallurgical analyses (chemical, compositional, and mechanical) conducted on historic iron nails from the Marianas archipelago, in the western Pacific. The nails were recovered at the archaeological excavations of San Dionisio’s church and cemetery (Humåtak, Guam). They all came from abroad and were incorporated by the native communities through exchange, trade, or through the reuse of materials found in shipwrecks, although it is not possible at the moment to locate their exact origin. However, we know that all the analyzed samples had different metallographic and mechanical characteristics. This is the first study of these characteristics on Micronesia.application/pdfeng© 2022 The Author(s). Published by Elsevier Ltd. This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC-ND license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/).info:eu-repo/semantics/articlehttp://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jasrep.2022.103746GuamHistoric nailsIron archeometallurgyMariana IslandsModern Spanish colonialisminfo:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess