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BL
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1049755
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bc862
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English
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| Main Entry
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Weeks, Lloyd R.,1970-
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| Title & Author
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Early metallurgy of the Persian Gulf : : technology, trade, and the Bronze Age World /\ Lloyd R. Weeks.
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| Publication Statement
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Boston :: Brill,, 2004.
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| Series Statement
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American School of Prehistoric Research monograph series
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| Page. NO
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1 online resource (xviii, 249 pages) :: illustrations, maps.
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| ISBN
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1423734246
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: 9781423734246
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0391042130
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9780391042131
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| Bibliographies/Indexes
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 209-246) and index.
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| Contents
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1. Introduction -- 2. Geology and Early Exploitation of Copper Deposits in Southeastern Arabia -- 3. Analyzed Artifacts: Contexts and Chronology -- 4. Results of Compositional Analyses -- 5. Discussion of Compositional Results -- 6. Lead Isotope Analysis in Archaeology -- 7. Lead Isotope Data from the Gulf / L. R. Weeks and K. D. Collerson -- 8. Tin and Tin-Bronze in Early Western Asia -- 9. Summary and Conclusions -- App. Analytical Techniques and Data Treatment.
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| Abstract
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"This volume examines the earliest production and exchange of copper and its alloys in the Persian Gulf, a major metal supply route for the Bronze Age societies of Western Asia. Weeks addresses the geological and technological background to copper production in southeastern Arabia and contextualizes evidence for major fluctuations in prehistoric copper production. The core of the volume consists of compositional and isotopic analyses. The relationship between specialized copper production, exchange, and the development of social complexity in early Arabia is examined, and the author addresses the broader archaeological issue of the Bronze Age tin trade, which linked vast areas of Western Asia, from the Indo-Iranian borderlands to the Aegean, in the third millennium B.C."--BOOK JACKET.
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Bronze age-- Persian Gulf.
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Metal-work, Prehistoric-- Persian Gulf.
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Mines and mineral resources, Prehistoric-- Persian Gulf.
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Excavations (Archaeology)-- Persian Gulf.
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Bronze-- Persian Gulf-- Metallurgy.
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Tin bronze.
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HISTORY-- Ancient-- General.
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Antiquities.
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Bronze age.
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Bronze-- Metallurgy.
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Excavations (Archaeology)
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Metal-work, Prehistoric.
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Mines and mineral resources, Prehistoric.
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Tin bronze.
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Persian Gulf, Antiquities.
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Persian Gulf.
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| Dewey Classification
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939/.49
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| LC Classification
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GN778.32.P35W44 2003eb
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