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

• Κύριος συγγραφέας: Chirikure, Shadreck (Συγγραφέας)
• Συγγραφή απο Οργανισμό/Αρχή: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Μορφή: Ηλεκτρονική πηγή Ηλ. βιβλίο
• Γλώσσα: English
• Έκδοση: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2015.
• Σειρά: SpringerBriefs in Archaeology,
• Θέματα: 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...

Πίνακας περιεχομένων:

• 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.