Title Early metallurgy of the Persian Gulf : technology, trade, and the Bronze Age World / Lloyd R. Weeks

Published Boston : Brill, 2004

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Description 1 online resource (xviii, 249 pages) : illustrations, maps Series American School of Prehistoric Research monograph series American School of Prehistoric Research monograph series. Contents 1. Introduction -- 2. Geology and Early Exploitation of Copper Deposits in Southeastern Arabia -- 3. Analyzed Artifacts: Contexts and Chronology -- 4. Results of Compositional Analyses -- 5. Discussion of Compositional Results -- 6. Lead Isotope Analysis in Archaeology -- 7. Lead Isotope Data from the Gulf / L.R. Weeks and K.D. Collerson -- 8. Tin and Tin-Bronze in Early Western Asia -- 9. Summary and Conclusions -- App. Analytical Techniques and Data Treatment Summary "This volume examines the earliest production and exchange of copper and its alloys in the Persian Gulf, a major metal supply route for the Bronze Age societies of Western Asia. Weeks addresses the geological and technological background to copper production in southeastern Arabia and contextualizes evidence for major fluctuations in prehistoric copper production. The core of the volume consists of compositional and isotopic analyses. The relationship between specialized copper production, exchange, and the development of social complexity in early Arabia is examined, and the author addresses the broader archaeological issue of the Bronze Age tin trade, which linked vast areas of Western Asia, from the Indo-Iranian borderlands to the Aegean, in the third millennium B.C."--Jacket Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 209-246) and index Notes Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL Print version record digitized 2010 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve pda MiAaHDL Subject Bronze age -- Persian Gulf Metal-work, Prehistoric -- Persian Gulf Mines and mineral resources, Prehistoric -- Persian Gulf Excavations (Archaeology) -- Persian Gulf Bronze -- Persian Gulf -- Metallurgy Tin bronze. HISTORY -- Ancient -- General. Antiquities Bronze age Bronze -- Metallurgy Excavations (Archaeology) Metal-work, Prehistoric Mines and mineral resources, Prehistoric Tin bronze SUBJECT Persian Gulf -- Antiquities Subject Persian Gulf Form Electronic book ISBN 1423734246 9781423734246

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