Metals in past societies : a global perspective on Indigenous African metallurgy

Metals in past societies : a global perspective on Indigenous African metallurgy / Shadreck Chirikure.

This book seeks to communicate to both a global and local audience, the key attributes of pre-industrial African metallurgy such as technological variation across space and time, methods of mining and extractive metallurgy and the fabrication of metal objects. These processes were transformative in...

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Main Author: Chirikure, Shadreck (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Cham : Springer, 2015.
Series:SpringerBriefs in archaeology. Contributions from Africa.
Subjects:
Metallurgy in archaeology > Africa.
Metallurgy > Africa > History.
Anthropology.
Metals technology > metallurgy.
Archaeology.
TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING > Metallurgy.
Metallurgy
Metallurgy in archaeology
Africa
History
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Table of Contents:
  • Chapter 1: Metals and the production and reproduction of society
  • Chapter 2: Origins and development of Africa?s pre-industrial mining and metallurgy
  • Chapter 3: Mother earth provides: mining and crossing the boundary between nature and culture
  • Chapter 4: Domesticating nature
  • Chapter 5: Socializing metals
  • Chapter 6: The social role of metals
  • Chapter 7: Bridging conceptual boundaries, a global perspective.

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