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Metals in Antiquity
Suzanne M. M. Young, A. Mark Pollard, Paul Budd and Robert A. Ixer 1999 © BAR Publishing
The book includes 43 papers which deal with various aspects of metals, metallurgy and metalworking in antiquity. Areas covered stretch from China, Americas to Europe. The general goal was to explore the distribution of metals in the natural environment, extractive metallurgy and fabrication processes, as well as social context, use and deposition of artefacts, and combine anthropology, archaeology and the earth sciences.
- Series
- BAR pre-2020
- BAR International Series pre-2020
- ISBN(s)
- 9781407351193 (ebook)
- 9781841710082 (paperback)
- BAR Number
- S792
- Subject
- Levant / Near East
- Central and Eastern Europe
- Archaeometry / Scientific Dating
- Classical and Hellenistic
- Mediterranean
- Roman
- Late Antiquity and Byzantium
- British Isles
- Far East
- Prehistory (general titles only)
- Multiperiod
- Computing and Quantitative Methods
- Africa
- Egypt and Sudan
- Bronze Age and Iron Age
- Central and South Asia
- Arabia
- North America
- Metal Objects
- Metallurgy / Mining
- Western Europe and Britain
- Greece, Aegean, Crete and Black Sea
- Citable Link
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