Magan : the land of copper : prehistoric metallurgy of Oman
| 1. Verfasser: |
Giardino, Claudio, 1952-
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| Ort/Verlag/Jahr: |
Oxford :
Archaeopress Publishing Ltd.,
[2019].
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| Umfang/Format: |
xviii, 182 pages : illustrations ; 30 cm. |
| Schriftenreihe: |
Archaeological heritage of Oman
v. 2 |
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| Parallelausgabe: |
Magan (Online version) |
Inhaltsangabe:
- List of illustrations and tables; Acknowledgments ; Foreword; 1 - A country of environmental diversities; 2 - A geological and mineralogical overview; 3 - Basic elements of metallurgy; 4 - Copper for Sumer; 5 - The earliest appearance of metalworking; 6 - Early Bronze Age: the Hafit period, ca. 3200-2800 BC; 7 - Early Bronze Age: the Umm an-Nar period, ca. 2800-2000 BC; 8 - The prehistoric copper mines; 9 - Copper smelting in prehistoric Oman; 10 - Middle and Late Bronze Age: the Wadi Suq period. ca. 2000-1300 BC; 11 - Early Iron Age, ca. 1300-300 BC; 12 - Chemical-Physical Analyses by Energy Dispersive X-Ray Fluorescence (EDXRF) - by Claudio Giardino and Giovanni Paternoster; Bibliographical references; Index.
