Early metallurgy of the Persian Gulf
Subtitle: technology, trade, and the Bronze Age World
By: Lloyd R. Weeks.
Series: American School of Prehistoric Research monograph series
Publisher: Brill
Published: 2003
Place of publication: Boston
Language: eng
Number of pages: 249
Subjects: Bronze age -- Persian Gulf.; Metal-work, Prehistoric -- Persian Gulf.; Mines and mineral resources, Prehistoric -- Persian Gulf.; Excavations (Archaeology) -- Persian Gulf.; Bronze -- Persian Gulf -- Metallurgy.; Tin bronze -- Persian Gulf.; Persian Gulf -- Antiquities.
Description: "This volume examines the earliest production and exchange of copper and its alloys in the Persian Gulf, a major metal supply route for the Bronze Age societies of Western Asia. Weeks addresses the geological and technological background to copper production in southeastern Arabia and contextualizes evidence for major fluctuations in prehistoric copper production. The core of the volume consists of compositional and isotopic analyses. The relationship between specialized copper production, exchange, and the development of social complexity in early Arabia is examined, and the author addresses the broader archaeological issue of the Bronze Age tin trade, which linked vast areas of Western Asia, from the Indo-Iranian borderlands to the Aegean, in the third millennium B.C."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [209]-246) and index.