| Description |
xix, 555 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
| Contents |
The pyrotechnologic background / Theodore A. Wertime -- The Bronze Age setting / James D. Muhly -- The first archaeological appearance of iron and the transition to the Iron Age / Jane C. Waldbaum -- Metallurgy and ancient man / Tamara S. Wheeler and Robert Maddin -- Ocher in prehistory: 300,000 years of the use of iron ores as pigments / Denise Schmandt-Besserat -- The coming of copper and copper-base alloys and iron: a metallurgical sequence / James A. Charles -- Furnaces, crucibles, and slags / Ronald F. Tylecote -- An alternative sequence for the development of metallurgy: Tepe Yahya, Iran / Dennis Heskel and Carl Clifford Lamberg-Karlovsky -- The Central Andes: metallurgy without iron / Heather Lechtman -- Iron and early metallurgy in the Mediterranean / Anthony M. Snodgrass -- Early iron metallurgy in Europe / Radomir Pleiner -- The Iron Age in Western Iran / Vincent C. Pigott -- The advent of iron in Africa / Nikolaas J. van der Merwe -- The evolution of iron and steel technology in East and Southeast Asia / Joseph Needham |
| Analysis |
Iron Prehistoric metallurgy |
| Notes |
Includes index |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Subject |
Iron age.
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Metallurgy -- History.
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| Author |
Muhly, James D. (James David)
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Wertime, Theodore A.
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| LC no. |
79026420 |
| ISBN |
0300024258 |
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