Ancient Society And Metallurgy

Author : Dr. Liangren Zhang
Publisher : BAR International Series
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Bronze Age
ISBN : 1407309110

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Ancient Society and Metallurgy by Dr. Liangren Zhang Pdf

Focusing on Bronze Age societies in Central Eurasia and North China, this book presents a new scenario of early social evolution. Essentially it integrates the Marxist production-relation concept and the community concept into the Band-Tribe-Chiefdom-State scheme, and formulates the following three hypotheses: 1) The community is an autonomous agent in political, economic, and cultural spheres; 2) The nature of the early social evolution is that the inter-community differentiation at the tribal stage transforms into the inter-community stratification at the chiefdom and state stages; 3) Metal production as a form of economy is a major force that instigates the inter-community differentiation. In testing the three hypotheses, Bronze Age archaeological data from Central Eurasia and North China are subjected to detailed examination. The Central Eurasian societies and the Late Shang kingdom are all engaged in metal production yet they represent two disparate stages of social development, the tribal and state stages respectively. This contrast gives us an excellent opportunity to reflect upon the trajectory of early social evolution and the role of metal production in this process. Virtually the two bodies of materials supply a desirable testing ground for the three hypotheses raised above.

Author : Evgenil Nikolaevich Chernykh
Publisher : CUP Archive
Page : 370 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 1992-12-03
Category : History
ISBN : 0521252571

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Ancient Metallurgy in the USSR by Evgenil Nikolaevich Chernykh Pdf

One of the leading Soviet archaeologists describes the development of ancient mining and metallurgy in the northern half of Eurasia. While the first traces of metallurgical activity date from between the seventh and the sixth millennium BC, significant mining developed only in the fifth millennium BC, in the northern Balkans and Carpathians. Metal producing centres were in these northern 'barbarian peripheral' regions rather than in the Near East and Asia Minor, areas traditionally associated with early classical civilization. Professor Chernykh describes successive periods of metallurgical activity in different regions: the Carpatho-Balkan Metallurgical Province of the Copper Age: the Circumpontic of the Early and Middle Bronze Age: and the Eurasian, European Caucasian, Central Asian and Irano-Afghan of the Late Bronze Age. He provides detailed information about the different groups of copper and bronze artefacts, their chemical composition, and their dispersion in time and space. He analyses the international metallurgical trade and division of labour and, finally, the collapse of the sociocultural systems in these metallurgical centres in the first millennium BC.

Author : Michael S. Bisson,Terry S. Childs,Philip De Barros,Augustin F.C. Holl,O. Vogel, Joseph
Publisher : AltaMira Press
Page : 316 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2000-08-16
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781461705925

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Ancient African Metallurgy by Michael S. Bisson,Terry S. Childs,Philip De Barros,Augustin F.C. Holl,O. Vogel, Joseph Pdf

Gold. Copper. Iron. Metal working in Africa has been the subject of both public lore and extensive archaeological investigation. Here, four of the leading contemporary researchers on this topic attempt to provide a complete synthesis of current debates and understandings: Where, how, and when was metal first introduced to the continent? How were iron and copper tools, implements, and objects used in everyday life, in trade, in political and cultural contexts? What role did metal objects play in the ideological systems of precolonial African peoples? Substantive chapters address the origins of metal working and the technology and the various uses and meanings of copper and iron. An ethnoarchaeological account in the words of a contemporary iron worker enriches the archaeological explanations. This book provides a comprehensive, timely summary of our current knowledge.

Author : Earle R. Caley
Publisher : Elsevier
Page : 189 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2013-10-22
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781483185323

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Analysis of Ancient Metals by Earle R. Caley Pdf

Analysis of Ancient Metals provides a guide to the identification and analysis of ancient metals and alloys. The title details the various analytical methods and procedures in dealing with different metals and alloys. The text first discusses the heterogeneity of ancient metals and the sampling problem, and then proceeds to covering preliminary observations and measurements, qualitative tests, and choice of quantitative method. The next series of chapters details the methods and procedures in the analysis of gold, silver, copper, iron, and steel, as well as various nonferrous metals. The last chapter discusses the concerns in reporting the findings. The book will be of great interest to materials engineers and metallurgists. Archeologists and museologists will also greatly benefit from the text.

Author : Benjamin W. Roberts,Christopher P. Thornton
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 868 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2014-01-07
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781461490173

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Archaeometallurgy in Global Perspective by Benjamin W. Roberts,Christopher P. Thornton Pdf

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 has seen a recent growth in techniques, data, and theoretical movements. This comprehensive sourcebook on Archaeometallurgy provides an overview of earlier research as well as a review of modern techniques, written in an approachable way. Covering an extensive range of archaeological time-periods and regions, this volume will be a valuable resource for those studying archaeology worldwide. It provides a clear, straightforward look at the available methodologies, including: • Smelting processes • Slag analysis • Technical Ceramics • Archaeology of Mining and Field Survey • Ethnoarchaeology • Chemical Analysis and Provenance Studies • Conservation Studies With chapters focused on most geographic regions of Archaeometallurgical inquiry, researchers will find practical applications for metallurgical techniques in any area of their study. Ben Roberts is a specialist in the early metallurgy and later prehistoric archaeology of Europe. He was the Curator of the European Copper and Bronze Age collections at the British Museum between 2007 and 2012 and is now a Lecturer in Prehistoric Europe in the Departm ent of Archaeology at the Durham University, UK. Chris Thornton is a specialist in the ancient metallurgy of the Middle East, combining anthropological theory with archaeometrical analysis to understand the development and diffusion of metallurgical technologies throughout Eurasia. He is currently a Consulting Scholar of the University of Pennsylvania Museum, where he received his PhD in 2009, and the Lead Program Officer of research grants at the National Geographic Society.

Author : R. F. Tylecote
Publisher : CRC Press
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : Science
ISBN : UOM:39015025203012

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A History of Metallurgy by R. F. Tylecote Pdf

The first edition of this standard introduction was published in 1976, and reprinted in 1979; this new volume is a second edition, completed before the author's death last year. The main changes are in the chapters describing the early development of metallurgy in which there has been so much recent research; the later, post-Roman chapters have been revised to take account of new discoveries from excavations. The volume is extensively illustrated as before and is now issued in a hard cover.

Author : Paula M. McNutt
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 313 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 1990-01-01
Category : Bible
ISBN : 9781850752639

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The Forging of Israel by Paula M. McNutt Pdf

Author : Shadreck Chirikure
Publisher : Springer
Page : 181 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2015-03-18
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9783319116419

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Metals in Past Societies by Shadreck Chirikure Pdf

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 a physical and metaphoric sense, which made them total social facts. Because the production and use of metals was an accretion of various categories of practice, a chaine operatoire conceptual and theoretical framework that simultaneously considers the embedded technological and anthropological factors was used. The book focuses on Africa’s different regions as roughly defined by cultural geography. On the one hand there is North Africa, Egypt, the Egyptian Sudan, and the Horn of Africa which share cultural inheritances with the Middle East and on the other is Africa south of the Sahara and the Sudan which despite interacting with the former is remarkably different in terms of technological practice. For example, not only is the timing of metallurgy different but so is the infrastructure for working metals and the associated symbolic and sociological factors. The cultural valuation of metals and the social positions of metal workers were different too although there is evidence of some values transfer and multi-directional technological cross borrowing. The multitude of permutations associated with metals production and use amply demonstrates that metals participated in the production and reproduction of society. Despite huge temporal and spatial differences there are so many common factors between African metallurgy and that of other regions of the world. For example, the role of magic and ritual in metal working is almost universal be it in Bolivia, Nepal, Malawi, Timna, Togo or Zimbabwe. Similarly, techniques of mining were constrained by the underlying geology but this should not in any way suggest that Africa’s metallurgy was derivative or that the continent had no initiative. Rather it demonstrates that when confronted with similar challenges, humanity in different regions of the world responded to identical challenges in predictable ways mediated as mediated by the prevailing cultural context. The success of the use of historical and ethnographic data in understanding variation and improvisation in African metallurgical practices flags the potential utility of these sources in Asia, Latin America and Europe. Some nuance is however needed because it is simply naïve to assume that everything depicted in the history or ethnography has a parallel in the past and vice versa. Rather, the confluence of archaeology, history and ethnography becomes a pedestal for dialogue between different sources, subjects and ideas that is important for broadening our knowledge of global categories of metallurgical practice.

Author : Ronald Frank Tylecote
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 182 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 1979
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:602457286

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A history of metallurgy by Ronald Frank Tylecote Pdf

Author : Kevin Butcher,Matthew Ponting,Jane Evans,Vanessa Pashley,Christopher Somerfield
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 841 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
ISBN : 9781107027121

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The Metallurgy of Roman Silver Coinage by Kevin Butcher,Matthew Ponting,Jane Evans,Vanessa Pashley,Christopher Somerfield Pdf

A new account of the role of coinage in the finances and economy of the Roman Empire.

Author : David Michael Metcalf,Kenneth A. Sheedy,W. A. Oddy,Gillan Davis
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 342 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 1980
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
ISBN : 090140537X

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Metallurgy in Numismatics by David Michael Metcalf,Kenneth A. Sheedy,W. A. Oddy,Gillan Davis Pdf

This book contains 23 studies on geology and mining in ancient Greece, the manufacture and metallurgy of ancient Greek coins and the analysis and conservation of these coins. The chapters collectively place numismatics within an interdisciplinary context.

Author : Georg Petersen G.
Publisher : Geological Society of America
Page : 116 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2010-01-01
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9780813724676

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Mining and Metallurgy in Ancient Perú by Georg Petersen G. Pdf

"In 2009, Perú was the world's leading producer of silver, the world's second leading producer of copper, and the leading producer of gold in Latin America. However, Perú's role as a producer of metals extends for centuries into the past. Mining and Metallurgy in Ancient Perú documents the use of minerals, metals, and mineral resources in ancient Perú for pigments, industrial stone, and the aesthetic and artistic use of gold, silver, copper, and platinum. The tools and methods used for mining, as well as ancient mining sites in the extensive Andean region, are described here, as are metallurgical techniques and fabrication procedures. The volume also provides forward-thinking analytical data on metals, artifacts, and alloys. A detailed pyrite mirror, featured on the cover of the book, symbolizes the spectacular workmanship and blending of utilitarian craft and mineral resources in ancient Perú."--Publisher's description.

Author : Jianjun Mei,Thilo Rehren
Publisher : Archetype Publications
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Art
ISBN : 1904982492

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Metallurgy and Civilisation by Jianjun Mei,Thilo Rehren Pdf

These conference proceedings cover topics including early metallurgy across Eurasia, bronze casting technologies in ancient China, ancient iron and steel technologies in Asia, and ancient metallurgical and manufacturing processes.

Author : Michail Yu Treister
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 570 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Art
ISBN : 9004104739

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The Role of Metals in Ancient Greek History by Michail Yu Treister Pdf

This volume presents an attempt to argue the role of metals in the history of Greek society using the widest possible variety of sources: the evidence of ancient writers, epigraphical material and archaeological data: the excavated remains of workshops and hoards, archaeometallurgical finds; the results of studies of ancient mines and analyses of ancient metal objects: bronze plastics and jewelry articles, coins etc. The main task of this work is to analyse the role of various metals in the context of Greek economic life, politics, culture and art, to trace the movement of metal from ore to finished the objects, including works of art, to show the relations between the regions where metals were extracted and the centres of metalworking, the structure of the workshops and the connections between them and the role of the workshops in the economic life at the different stages in Greek history. The chronological frame of the study is the 8th-1st centuries BC, i.e. from the beginning of the Great period of Greek colonization till the end of the Hellenistic epoch. The geographical frame of the work is the Greek oikumere.

Author : David A. Scott
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 112 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Alloys
ISBN : 9780982933824

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Ancient Metals by David A. Scott Pdf