Talk:Nonferrous archaeometallurgy of the Southern Levant

Latest comment: 9 years ago by Oncenawhile in topic Intro

Intro

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I moved this paragraph here from the lead - it is not specific enough to the subject of this article.

The archaeology of metals (or as it is called today—archaeometallurgy) is a research branch of archaeology that is as old as methodological archaeological research itself.[1] The first stage in the study of ancient metals was arranging the finds according to shape, size, material, and function.[2] At that stage the material was characterized mainly by surface color of the object, and the production mode was reconstructed by logical assumptions based upon the shape of the object.[2] It was slightly later [3] that metallurgical and metallographic analyses [4][5] were incorporated in the typological study of ancient metals from the “Old World”. The first textbooks of archaeometallurgy appeared during the 1950s and 1960s (i.e., Coghlan;[6] Tylecote[7]). Since then, archaeometallurgy is well established within the various aspects of “modern” archaeology.[4]

Oncenawhile (talk) 21:50, 3 August 2015 (UTC)Reply

References

  1. ^ Naue, J. "Die Vorromischen Schwerter aus Kupfer Bronze und Eisen", Munchen, 1903.
  2. ^ a b Petrie, W.M.F. "Tools and weapons", British School of Archaeology in Egypt, London, 1917
  3. ^ Garland, H., Bannister, C.O. 1927. Ancient Egyptian metallurgy. Charles Griffin Publication, London.
  4. ^ a b Craddock, P.T. 1990. Early metal mining and production. Edinburgh Univ., Edinburgh.
  5. ^ Hauptmann, A. 2000. Zur fruhen metallurgie des kupfers in Fenan/Jordanien. Der Anschnitt 11.
  6. ^ Coghlan, H.H. 1951. Notes on the prehistoric metallurgy of copper and bronze in the Old World. Pitt Rivers Museum, Occasional Paper on Technology no. 4, Oxford.
  7. ^ Tylecote, R.F. 1962. Metallurgy in archaeology. Edward Arnold, London.