Early Metallurgy of the Persian Gulf : Technology, Trade, and the Bronze Age World /

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...

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Main Author: Weeks, Lloyd (Author)

Format: eBook

Language: English

Published: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2003.

Series: American School of Prehistoric Research Monograph Series ; 2.
Biblical Studies, Ancient Near East and Early Christianity - Book Archive 2000-2006.

Subjects:

Bronze age > Persian Gulf.

Metal-work, Prehistoric > Persian Gulf.

Tin bronze.

Bronze > Persian Gulf > Metallurgy.