Title: Early metallurgy of the Persian Gulf
First published: 2003
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.
Subjects: Antiquities, Bronze, Bronze age, Excavations (Archaeology), Metal-work, Prehistoric, Metallurgy, Mines and mineral resources, Prehistoric, Prehistoric Mines and mineral resources, Tin bronze, Metal-work, Mines and mineral resources, middle east, Excavations (archaeology), middle east, Persian gulf, Persian gulf region, antiquities
Places: Persian Gulf
LC classification: GN778.32.P35 W44 2003