The Rise of Metallurgy in Eurasia Evolution, Organisation and Consumption of Early Metal in the Balkans
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Produktdetails
Einband
Taschenbuch
Erscheinungsdatum
23.12.2021
Abbildungen
340 figures; 70 tables.
Herausgeber
Miljana Radivojevic + weitereVerlag
ArchaeopressSeitenzahl
700
Maße (L/B/H)
20.4/29/3.6 cm
Gewicht
2452 g
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN
978-1-80327-042-5
The Rise of Metallurgy in Eurasia is a landmark study in the origins of metallurgy. The project aimed to trace the invention and innovation of metallurgy in the Balkans. It combined targeted excavations and surveys with extensive scientific analyses at two Neolithic-Chalcolithic copper production and consumption sites, Belovode and Plocnik, in Serbia. At Belovode, the project revealed chronologically and contextually secure evidence for copper smelting in the 49th century BC. This confirms the earlier interpretation of c. 7000-year-old metallurgy at the site, making it the earliest record of fully developed metallurgical activity in the world. However, far from being a rare and elite practice, metallurgy at both Belovode and Plocnik is demonstrated to have been a common and communal craft activity. This monograph reviews the pre-existing scholarship on early metallurgy in the Balkans. It subsequently presents detailed results from the excavations, surveys and scientific analyses conducted at Belovode and Plocnik. These are followed by new and up-to-date regional syntheses by leading specialists on the Neolithic-Chalcolithic material culture, technologies, settlement and subsistence practices in the Central Balkans. Finally, the monograph places the project results in the context of major debates surrounding early metallurgy in Eurasia before proposing a new agenda for global early metallurgy studies.
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