Scientific studies in early mining and extractive metallurgy /

Scientific studies in early mining and extractive metallurgy / edited by P.T. Craddock. - London : British Museum, 1980. - 173 p. : ill., maps, plates, tables ; 30 cm. - Occasional paper / British Museum, no. 20 01424815 ; . - Occasional paper (British Museum) no. 20. .

"Forms part of the proceedings of the 19th International Symposium on Archaeometry and Archaeological Prospection which was jointly organised by the British Museum Research Laboratory and the Institute of Archaeology of London University and held in London in March 1979."

Includes bibliographical references.

Bronze Age copper mining in Counties Cork and Kerry, Ireland / J.S. Jackson -- Primary copper mining and the production of copper / B. Jovanović -- Ancirnt copper mining and smelting at Chinflon (Huelva, S.W. Spain) / B. Rothenberg and A. Blamco Freijeiro -- Early Bronze Age lead-silver mining and metallurgy in the Aegean: the ancient workings on Siphnos / G.A. Wagner, N. Gentner, H. Gropengiessner and N.H. Cole -- Data analysis: towards a model of chemical modification of copper from ores to metal / Th. Berthoud, S. Bonnefous, M. Dechoux and J. Françaix -- Early copper smelting techniques in Sinai and in the Negev as deduced from slag investigations / H.-G. Bachmann -- Investigations on copper ore, prehistoric cpper slag and copper ingots from Sardinia / V. Zwicker, P, Virdis and M.L. Ceruti -- The composition of copper produced at the ancient smelting camps in the Wadi Timna, Israel / P.T. Craddock.

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Mines and mineral resources--Europe.
Metallurgy--Europe.

Copper Prehistoric metallurgy Copper Prehistoric mining


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