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Goeltepe Excavations - Tin Production at an Early Bronze Age Mining Town in the Central Taurus Mountains, Turkey (Hardcover)
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Goeltepe Excavations - Tin Production at an Early Bronze Age Mining Town in the Central Taurus Mountains, Turkey (Hardcover)
Series: Prehistory Monographs, 64
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This volume presents over fifteen years (1981-1996) of
archaeometallurgy surveys and specifically the excavations of an
Early Bronze Age miners' village, Goeltepe and its associated tin
mine, Kestel. The results of the surface surveys, test pit
operations, profile trenches and excavation finds demonstrate that
processing of cassiterite-rich ore was the primary function of
activities at Goeltepe. The variety and density of tin-rich
vitrified crucibles as well as ground, powdered tin-rich ore from
excavated contexts were only some of the several lines of evidence.
Other finds indicated that the site was profoundly associated with
metal production. Weighty evidence came in the numbers of
multifaceted molds, ingots and tin bronze artifacts. Furthermore,
50,000 ground stone tools for ore dressing and vitrified material
grinding were estimated on the site surface, while 5,000 came from
excavated contexts. Early Bronze Age Goeltepe and Kestel Mine
represent the as-yet unique example of the highland production
model, that is, the industrial tier 1 of the extraction and
processing of raw materials for the production of metal artifacts.
This model entails the mining and smelting operations in the
metalliferously rich ore deposits and forests, usually located in
the mountains, in this case, the central Taurus Mountains in
southern Turkey.
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