Metals in Past Societies A Global Perspective on Indigenous African Metallurgy /

• Main Author: Chirikure, Shadreck (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2015.
• Series: SpringerBriefs in Archaeology,
• Subjects: Social sciences.; Anthropology.; Archaeology.; Metals.; Social Sciences.; Metallic Materials.

This book seeks to communicate to both a global and local audience, the key attributes of pre-industrial African metallurgy such as technological variation across space and time, methods of mining and extractive metallurgy and the fabrication of metal objects.  These processes were transformative in...