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Technical Studies-Early Use of Metals

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  22 February 2011

R. Maddin
R. Maddin*
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Harvard University, Cambridge, MA 02138
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Abstract

Excavated metals, some with secure dates as early as the eighth millennium BC, have been analyzed using a variety of scientific methods in order to provide insight into early metallurgical technology. The results are often used to reconstruct the role of technology in the social structure of the community. This lecture will review many of these methods giving examples from the examination of excavated objects.

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MRS Online Proceedings Library (OPL) , Volume 123: Symposium L – Materials Issues in Art and Archaeology I , 1988, 171
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Copyright © Materials Research Society 1988

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