Early metallurgy of the Persian Gulf : technology, trade, and the Bronze Age World / Lloyd R. Weeks.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Weeks, Lloyd R., 1970- author.

Series:

American School of Prehistoric Research monograph series ; Volume 2.

American School of Prehistoric Research monograph series ; Volume 2

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Bronze--Metallurgy.

Bronze.

Excavations (Archaeology).

Metal-work, Prehistoric.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xviii, 249 p. ) ill., 1 map ;

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Boston : Brill Academic Publishers, [2004]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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 contists 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 BC.

Contents:

Front Matter

Preliminary Material / Lloyd R. Weeks

Foreword / C. C. Lamberg-Karlovsky

Preface / Lloyd R. Weeks

Acknowledgments / Lloyd R. Weeks

List of Figures / Lloyd R. Weeks

List of Tables / Lloyd R. Weeks

1 Introduction / Lloyd R. Weeks

2 Geology and Early Exploitation of Copper Deposits in Southeastern Arabia / Lloyd R. Weeks

3 Analyzed Artifacts: Contexts and Chronology / Lloyd R. Weeks

4 Results of Compositional Analyses / Lloyd R. Weeks

5 Discussion of Compositional Results / Lloyd R. Weeks

6 Lead Isotope Analysis in Archaeology / Lloyd R. Weeks

7 Lead Isotope Data from the Gulf / Authors: L. R. Weeks and K. D. Collerson

8 Tin and Tin-Bronze in Early Western Asia / Lloyd R. Weeks

9 Summary and Conclusion / Lloyd R. Weeks

Back Matter

Appendix 1 Analytical Techniques and Data Treatment / Lloyd R. Weeks

References / Lloyd R. Weeks

Index / Lloyd R. Weeks.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

90-04-49544-4

1-4237-3424-6

OCLC:

1342500853

Publisher Number:

10.1163/9789004495449 DOI