In prehistoric mining archaeology research, different scientific areas are working together to solve fundamental research questions related to the production and use of metals in prehistoric times. They produce information according to the methodologies of their discipline and in the specific formats that best document their observations
and research. These formats may be very different as the documentation of archaeological or geological prospection, archaeological excavations, surveying, mineralogical, geochemical and metallurgical analysis, experimental archaeology and ethnoarchaeology vary significantly even within one discipline. In this paper we want to present a methodology how to integrate information of the above mentioned disciplines in order to answer specific questions in prehistoric mining archaeology research. The methodology is based on building a conceptual model that is able to represent the information of the participating disciplines and to inform the archaeologist on observations, physical structures, geochemical ore/artefact signatures and interpretations related to prehistoric mining, ore processing and extractive metallurgy with all the employed technologies. The CIDOC CRM ontology is used as conceptual background to structure the data. After the main categories of the conceptual model have been defined they need to be specialised in a hierarchical thesaurus. The transformation and mapping of existing data to the conceptual model is realized with semantic web technologies. The integration of the information and the subsequent provision in adequate tools can help researchers of prehistoric mining archaeology significantly to answer their research questions.
