ISBN: 9780262132329 - the beginning of the use of metals and alloys: papers (4 risultati)

Hardcover. Condizione: NF. Hardback in Near Fine condition with Near Fine dust jacket. 8.5 X 1.25 X 11.75 inches. 408 pages. Quick shipping, excellent customer service. All books carefully packaged in boxes and ship with tracking information.

Hardcover. Condizione: Near Fine. 1st Edition. Dustjacket protected by film layer.Some light wear to bootom of spine. Sticker on back cover dustjacket film. Pages inside clean and fresh. Oversized book - extra charge may be required for overseas shipping.

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Hardcover. Condizione: Fine. Condizione sovraccoperta: Fine. 1st Edition. xiv, 393 pp; figs. Original cloth, 4to. Papers by Muhly, Jessica Rawson, et al. Foreword by Cyril Stanley Smith. 'These thirty original essays form a landmark contribution to the history of metallurgy: together they present the first systematic survey of the beginning of the use of metals and alloys throughout the world. What distinguishes the book as a whole is the orientation of the writers toward seeing the objects they uncover in human-historical terms, reminding us that at all stages in history and in every part of the world, cultural change and advances in the use of metals are often closely intertwined. The articles are arranged in roughly chronological-geographical order; some are specific studies of sites, objects, and processes; others examine more general aspects of archaeometallurgy within a general field that has come to be called 'archaeometry'; and still others are interpretive and reflective essays on human history and cultural change (a particularly fine example of this approach is Heather Lechtman's essay on Central Andean metalworking). Archaeologists, historians, metallurgists, chemists, and geologists cover topics as diverse as iron trade in northern Scandinavia, the fabrication of gold foil in Japan, copper mining in eastern India, prehistoric metallurgy in Thailand, iron bloomery in Africa, early copper smelting in Palestine, and Chinese techniques for casting old belt plaques. And in his Foreword, Cyril Stanley Smith proposes structural metaphors that describe the historical reworkings of human society in terms of the transformations of materials.' (MIT Press Web site).…