Archaeometallurgy in Global Perspective Methods and Syntheses /

• Συγγραφή απο Οργανισμό/Αρχή: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Άλλοι συγγραφείς: Roberts, Benjamin W. (Επιμελητής έκδοσης), Thornton, Christopher P. (Επιμελητής έκδοσης)
• Μορφή: Ηλεκτρονική πηγή Ηλ. βιβλίο
• Γλώσσα: English
• Έκδοση: New York, NY : Springer New York : Imprint: Springer, 2014.
• Θέματα: Social sciences.; Cultural heritage.; Anthropology.; Archaeology.; Social Sciences.; Cultural Heritage.

The study of ancient metals in their social and cultural contexts has been a topic of considerable interest in archaeology and ancient history for decades, partly due to the modern dependence on technology and man-made materials. The formal study of Archaeometallurgy began in the 1970s-1980s, and ha...

Πίνακας περιεχομένων:

• Chapter 1: Introduction. Benjamin W. Roberts and Christopher P. Thornton
• Chapter 2: From Ores to Metals. David Killick
• Chapter 3: Metals. Michael Notis
• Chapter 4: Metallography and Microstructure of Metallic Artefacts. David A. Scott
• Chapter 5: The Investigation of Archaeometallurgical Slag. Andreas Hauptmann
• Chapter 6: Technical Ceramics. Marcos Martinón-Torres and Thilo Rehren
• Chapter 7: Methods of Mining Archaeology (Montanarchäologie). Thomas Stöllner
• Chapter 8: Experimental Archaeometallurgy. Julia Heeb and Barbara Ottaway
• Chapter 9: Ethnoarchaeological and Historical Methods. Louise Iles and S. Terry Childs
• Chapter 10: Chemical and Isotopic Studies of Ancient Metals. A. Mark Pollard and Peter Bray
• Chapter 11: Provenance Determination of Archaeological Metal Objects. Ernst Pernicka
• Chapter 12: A Conservator’s Perspective on Ancient Metallurgy. Deborah Schorsch
• Chapter 13: Copper Working Technologies, Context of Use, and Social Complexity in the Eastern Woodlands of Native North America. Kathleen L. Ehrhardt
• Chapter 14: West Mexican Metallurgy: Revisited and Revised. Dorothy Hosler
• Chapter 15: Andean Metallurgy in Prehistory. Heather Lechtman
• Chapter 16: Production Networks and Consumer Choice in the Earliest Metal of Western Europe. Benjamin W. Roberts
• Chapter 17: Aspects of Metalworking and Society from the Black Sea to the Baltic Sea during the 5th-2nd Millennium BC. Tobias L Kienlin
• Chapter 18: Early Metallurgy in the Central Mediterranean. Andrea Dolfini
• Chapter 19: Cairo to Cape: The Spread of Metallurgy through Eastern and Southern Africa. David Killick
• Chapter 20: Organization and Specialization of Early Mining and Metal Technologies in Anatolia. Joseph W. Lehner and K. Aslihan Yener
• Chapter 21: Who Dunnit? New Clues Concerning the Development of Chalcolithic Metal Technology in the Southern Levant. Jonathan Golden
• Chapter 22: Ancient Metallurgy in the Caucasus from the 6th to the 3rd Millennium BCE. Antoine Courcier
• Chapter 23: The Emergence of Complex Metallurgy on the Iranian Plateau. Christopher P. Thornton
• Chapter 24: Production and Consumption of Copper-base Metals in the Indus Civilization. Brett C. Hoffman and Heather M.-L. Miller
• Chapter 25: Early Metal in South India: Copper and Iron in Megalithic Contexts. Praveena Gullapalli
• Chapter 26: Metals, Society and Economy in the Late Prehistoric Eurasian Steppe. Roger Doonan, Bryan Hanks, Dmitry Zdanovich, Elena Kupriyanova, Derek Pitman, Natal’ya Batanina and James Johnson
• Chapter 27: Metallurgy in Ancient Eastern Asia: Retrospect and Prospects. Katheryn M. Linduff and Jianjun Mei
• Chapter 28: The Transmission of Early Bronze Technology to Thailand: New Perspectives. Joyce C. White and Elizabeth G. Hamilton.