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

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.

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Call Number: GN778.32.P35

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Table of Contents:
  • Front Matter
  • Preliminary Material /
  • Lloyd R. Weeks
  • Foreword /
  • C. C. Lamberg-Karlovsky
  • Preface /
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  • Acknowledgments /
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  • List of Figures /
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  • List of Tables /
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  • 1 Introduction /
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  • 2 Geology and Early Exploitation of Copper Deposits in Southeastern Arabia /
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  • 3 Analyzed Artifacts: Contexts and Chronology /
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  • 4 Results of Compositional Analyses /
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  • 5 Discussion of Compositional Results /
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  • 6 Lead Isotope Analysis in Archaeology /
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  • 7 Lead Isotope Data from the Gulf /
  • Authors: L. R. Weeks and K. D. Collerson
  • 8 Tin and Tin-Bronze in Early Western Asia /
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  • 9 Summary and Conclusion /
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  • Back Matter
  • Appendix 1 Analytical Techniques and Data Treatment /
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  • References /
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  • Index /
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