Metallurgy and civilisation : Eurasia and beyond : proceedings of the 6th International Conference on the Beginnings of the Use of Metals and Alloys (BUMA VI)

Körperschaft: International Conference on the Beginnings of the Use of Metals and Alloys Beijing, China)
Weitere Verfasser: Mei, Jianjun.
Rehren, Thilo.
Ort/Verlag/Jahr: London : Archetype, 2009.
Umfang/Format: 183 p. : ill. (some col.), maps (some col.) ; 30 cm.
Schlagworte:
iDAI.gazetteer: Ostasien
Inhaltsangabe:
  • Ancient metallurgy in the Eurasian steppes and China: problems of interactions / Evgenij Chernykh
  • Early metallurgy in China: some challenging issues in current studies / Jianjun Mei
  • Metal trade in Bronze Age Central Eurasia / Liangren Zhang
  • Documentary and archaeological evidence for an antique copper-nickel alloy (baitong) production in southern China and its exportation to India / François Widemann
  • Metal trade between Europe and Asia in classical antiquity / Alessandra Giumlia-Marr, Michel Jeandin and Ken'ichi Ota
  • The black bronzes of Asia / Paul Craddock ... [et al.]
  • Origins and evolution of the casting technology of Anyang bronze ritual vessels: an exploratory survey / Yu Liu
  • Three western Zhou bronze foundry sites in the Zhouyuan area, Shaanxi province, China / Wenli Zhou ... [et al.]
  • New research on lost-wax casting in ancient China / Weirong Zhou ... [et al.]
  • Incipient metallurgy in Yunnan: new data for old debates / Tzehuey Chiou-Peng
  • A study of the surface craft of weapons from the Ba-Shu region of ancient China / Zhihui Yao and Shuyun Sun
  • Production of signature artifacts for the nomad market in the state of Qin during the late Warring States period in China (4th-3rd century BCE) / Katheryn M. Linduff
  • An early iron-using centre in the ancient Jin state region (8th-3rd century BC) / Rubin Han and Hongmei Duan
  • From western Asia to the Tianshan Mountains: on the early iron artefacts found in Xinjiang / Wu Guo
  • South Indian Iron Age iron and high carbon steel: with reference to Kadebakele and comparative insights from Mel-siruvalur / Sharada Srinivasan ... [et al.]
  • Survivial of traditional Indian ironworking / Vibha Tripathi and PrabhakarUpadhaya
  • Fine structures: mechanical properties and origin of iron of an ancient steel sword excavated from the old mound in Japan / Masahiro Kitada
  • Specialisation in iron-and-steel-making in the early Middle East and Central Asia: myths, assumptions and a reassessment of early manuscript evidence / Brian Gilmour
  • The early history of lost-wax casting / Christopher J. Davey
  • A natural draught furnace for bronze casting / Bastian Asmus
  • The liquidation process utilised in silver production from copper ore: the transfer to and development in Japan / Eiji Izawa
  • A technical study of silver samples from Xi'an, Shaanxi province, China, dating from the Warring States period to the Tang dynasty / Junchang Yang ... [et al.]
  • Scientific analysis of lead-silver smelting slag from two sites in China / Pengfei Xie and Thilo Rehren.