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...

Table of Contents:

• Chapter 1: Metals and the production and reproduction of society
• Chapter 2: Origins and development of Africa’s pre-industrial mining and metallurgy
• Chapter 3: Mother earth provides: mining and crossing the boundary between nature and culture
• Chapter 4: Domesticating nature
• Chapter 5: Socializing metals
• Chapter 6: The social role of metals
• Chapter 7: Bridging conceptual boundaries, a global perspective.