This volume explores the part played by different metals in use
from the fourth millennium BC to the Early Iron Age, not only in
the Aegean but also in the wider Old World. It addresses the
divergent uses and roles of different metals, the
interrelationships of these roles and the changing values that may
have been accorded to them at different times and in different
places by producers and consumers. Individually, the papers in the
volume contemplate the particular properties of different metals
and the various issues concerning their frequent
under-representation in the archaeological (but not necessarily
textual) record, and also point out comparative and diachronic
perspectives that may have the ability to offer insights into their
important roles in wider cultural and historical changes over a
period of several millennia. After the Introduction and Chapter 1,
which reflects on some of the parameters involved in the term
‘precious’ as applied to metals, the remaining six chapters
cover the Aegean and the networks that link the Aegean with Italy,
Cyprus and the Near East more generally, and south-east Anatolia
and the Caucasus. Between them they discuss the beginnings of
regular iron metallurgy, the uses of and attitudes to gold, silver
and bronze and other copper-based alloys at various times between
the fourth millennium BC and the Early Iron Age.
General
| Imprint: |
Oxbow Books
|
| Country of origin: |
United Kingdom |
| Series: |
Sheffield Studies in Aegean Archaeology, 14 |
| Release date: |
February 2023 |
| Editors: |
Toby C. Wilkinson
• Susan Sherratt
|
| Dimensions: |
241 x 171mm (L x W) |
| Format: |
Paperback
|
| Pages: |
224 |
| ISBN-13: |
978-1-78925-961-2 |
| Categories: |
Books
|
| LSN: |
1-78925-961-4 |
| Barcode: |
9781789259612 |
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