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Metallurgy
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Eastern Mediterranean Metallurgy in the Second Millennium BC
edited by Vasiliki Kassianidou and George Papasavvas
James D. Muhly is a distinguished scholar with a special interest in ancient metallurgy who has dedicated much of his research to Cypriot archaeology. His work on the metallurgy of ancient Cyprus endorses the true importance of the island as a copper producing region, as well as a pioneer in the development and spread of metallurgy and metalwork in the wider eastern and central Mediterranean region. This volume contains papers from "Eastern ...
Hardback. Not yet published - advance orders taken. Publisher's Price US$120.00, Our Price US$90.00
Medieval Islamic Swords and Swordmaking
by Robert Hoyland, Brian Gilmour
The treatise On swords and their kinds was written by the 9th-century Muslim philosopher Ya'qkub ibn Ishaq al-Kindi. This work was commissioned by a powerful patron of scholarship, the Abbasid caliph Mu'tasim, and the content of the treatise presumably reflects the ruler's general interest in his army and its equipment, and his specific interest in the technical aspects of sword production. In this work, Kindi discusses the difference ...
Mining and Metal Production through the Ages
edited by Paul Craddock and Janet Lang
This volume grew out of the proceedings of an international conference hosted by The British Museum in 1995, augmented by the inclusion of participants' more recent work and additional contributions by other leading experts in the field. Among the various topics are the early development of copper smelting technology as exemplified at Feinan, Jordan, the recognition of Bronze Age copper mining in the British Isles, and the discovery of Bronze Age ...
Hardback. Price US$115.00
From megaliths to metals: Essays in honour of George Eogan
edited by John Bradley, John Coles, Eion Grogan, Barry Raftery and Helen Roche
A truly multi-disciplinary book alowing the reader to gain insights into an exceptionally diverse set of topics such as hunting, burial, sword-prodcution and rock art, from the Mesolithic to the Middle Ages. Contents: Preface. (John Coles and Barry Raftery); Hunting wild pig in the Late Mesolithic. (Finbar McCormick); Searching the Irish Mesolithic for the Humans behind the Hatchets. (Maire Delaney and Peter C. Woodman); Steles En Chambre. ...
Hardback. Publisher's Price US$80.00, Our Price US$64.00
Hardback. Publisher's Price US$100.00, Our Price US$64.00
Metallurgy: Understanding How, Learning Why: Studies in Honor of James D. Muhly
edited by Philip P. Betancourt and Susan C. Ferrence
Prof. James D. Muhly has enjoyed a distinguished career in the study of ancient history, archaeology, and metallurgy that includes an emeritus professorship at the University of Pennsylvania and a term as director of the American School of Classical Studies at Athens as well as receiving the Archaeological Institute of America's Gold Medal for a lifetime of outstanding achievement. In Muhly's honor, a total of 38 eminent scholars have contributed ...
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Prehistoric Metal Artefacts from Italy (3500-720 BC) in the British Museum
by Anna Maria Bietti Sestieri and Ellen Macnamara
This important publication brings together substantial holdings in two Departments at the British Museum: Greek and Roman, and Prehistory and Early Europe. Some 850 objects will be arranged chronologically from the Copper Age, through the Bronze Age to the Early Iron Age, and within these headings the objects will be arranged typologically, e.g. axes, swords, fibulae. A major result of this study and the scientific research carried out at the BM ...
Paperback. Price US$90.00
The Ringlemere Cup: Precious Cups and the Beginning of the Channel Bronze Age
edited by Stuart Needham, Keith Parfitt and Gill Varndell
In 2003 the British Museum acquired the recently discovered Ringlemere gold cup, a rare example from the Early Bronze Age. The volume provides definitive publication of the Ringlemere cup and its immediate site context. Dating and fuller social significance are assessed through thorough reappraisal and cataloguing of the fifteen comparable cups in gold, silver, amber and shale from Britain, Brittany, Germany and Switzerland. This leads on to ...
Paperback. Publisher's Price US$46.00, Our Price US$14.98
Dolaucothi-Pumsaint: Survey and Excavations at a Roman Gold-Mining Complex 1987-1999
by Barry and Helen Burnham
Dolaucothi, near the modern village of Pumsaint in south-west Wales, is the only site in Britain where the Romans are known certainly to have mined for gold. The main workings, which are thought to span various phases of exploitation from the pre-Roman through to the present, can be traced over a distance of more than a kilometre. This volume reports on a series of investigations carried out at this important complex over a period of 12 years. ...
Hardback. Publisher's Price US$110.00, Our Price US$49.98
Hardback. Publisher's Price US$110.00, Our Price US$49.98
Die Vorderösterreichischen Montanregionen in der Frühen Neuzeit
by Angelika Westermann
This volume provides the first overview of the economic and social history of mining and metallurgy in the Austrian Forelands during the 16th century. It shows that conflicts of interest stemming from questions of royal sovereignty and religious affiliation were solved by subjugation under economic primacy. Analysis of metallurgic economics demonstrates that the region belonged to the major European producers of silver during the second half of ...
Paperback. Price US$97.00
Masters of Fire: Hereditary Bronze Casters of South India
by Thomas E. Levy, Alina M. Levy, D. Radhkrishna Sthapathy, D. Srikanda Sthapathy and D. Swaminatha Sthapathy
This book takes a look at the nature and 'health' of one of India's most unique and beautiful traditional craft traditions: the bronze icon industry of Tamil Nadu. The book is written from the perspective of an anthopologist and gives a view of human behavior through the lens of material culture. It is a most valuable contribution of ethnoarchaeology to archaeometallurgy. This book came about when Professor Thomas E. Levy, University of ...
Hardback. Price US$60.00
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