Metallurgical Production in Northern Eurasia in the Bronze Age
By (author) Stanislav Grigoriev
Paperback (Published)
(January 2016)
ISBN: 9781784912758
6.93 x 9.69 inches
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Copper is the first metal to play a large part in human history. This work is devoted to the history of metallurgical production in Northern Eurasia during the Bronze Age, based on experiments carried out by the author and analyses of ancient slag, ore and metal. It should be noted that archaeometallurgical studies include a huge range of works reflecting different fields of activity of ancient metallurgists. Often, all that unites these is the term ‘metallurgy’. This work considers the problems of proper metallurgy, i.e. extracting metal from ore. A number of accompanying operations are closely connected with it, such as charcoal-burning, ore dressing, furnace constructing, and preparation of crucibles. In some instances the author touches upon these operations; however the main topic of the work is the smelting process. The closing stage of the metallurgical production is metalworking including various casting and forging operations, and also auxiliary operations: making of crucibles, casting molds, stone tools for metal forging. These problems are, as a rule, out of frameworks of this research.
Introduction
Chapter 1. Experiments with Ancient Copper Smelting Technologies
Chapter 2. Production in the Eneolithic, Early and Middle Bronze Age
Chapter 3. Metallurgical Furnaces of Sintashta Culture
Chapter 4. Copper Ores of Sintashta and Petrovka Sites in the Transurals
Chapter 5. Mineralogical and Chemical Composition of Sintashta Slag
Chapter 6. Sintashta metalworking
Chapter 7. Chronology, Genesis and Structure of Sintashta Metallurgy
Chapter 8. Metallurgical Production in the Bashkirian Urals
Chapter 9. Metallurgy of the Late Bronze Age in the Volga and Orenburg Regions
Chapter 10. Mining and Metallurgical Production in the Don and Donets Areas
Chapter 11. Metallurgical Production in the Asian Part of the Eurasian Metallurgical Province in the Bronze Age
Chapter 12. Metallurgical Production in the Kyzyl-Kum
Chapter 13. The Problem of Iron in the Bronze Age of Northern Eurasia
Chapter 14. Metallurgical Production in the Early Iron Age
Conclusions
BibliographyRedevelopment Choices of Carian Benefactors in the Roman Age (Guray Unver)
A Byzantine Monastery South-East of Jerusalem (Yehiel Zelinger)
Local and Imported Art in the Byzantine Monastery Newly Discovered Near Jerusalem, Israel (Lihi Habas)
Stanislav Grigoriev graduated from Chelyabinsk University in 1982. He began his scientific career at the same university, and since 1989 has been working at the Institute of History and Archaeology, Ural Branch, Russian Academy of Sciences. He studied ancient metallurgy and the Bronze Age, and for many years participated in the excavations of such famous settlements as Sintashta and Arkaim. Since 2004, he has headed the research project of the megalithic complex on the Vera Island. His books Ancient Indo-Europeans, Metallurgical Production in Northern Eurasia in the Bronze Age and Holy Lalish are published in English.
- By (author) Stanislav Grigoriev
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