The Domestication of Metals: The Rise of Complex Metal Industries in Anatolia

Erscheinungsjahr 2000
ISBN: 978-90-04-11864-5
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 4, 228 Seiten, Format (B × H): 160 mm x 239 mm, Gewicht: 499 g

Reihe: Culture and History of the Ancient Near East

Over the decades, Anatolian metal artifacts have been the focus of extensive scientific analysis. Now fifteen years of field work, current surveys, excavations, and analytical programs regarding transformations in metallurgy in this highly metalliferous region have enabled Aslihan Yener in Domestication of Metals to focus for the first time on the organization of production within a broader social context.
In so doing, the author introduces convincing evidence for a revision of existing models concerning the metal industry. The volume locates a core of technological innovation in the highland zones, where critical resources are in close proximity to the developing polities in the fertile, agricultural lowlands. The Early Bronze Age tin mine, Kestel, and the contemporary workshop and habitation site of nearby Göltepe, illustrate an industrial complex specializing in the production of tin metal. New metallurgical data explain the organization and management of a range of interactive technologies in prehistoric states in Anatolia from 8000-2000 B.C.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Yener, K. Aslihan

Fachgebiete

• Technische Wissenschaften Verfahrenstechnik | Chemieingenieurwesen | Biotechnologie Metallurgie
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Naher & Mittlerer Osten
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Alte Geschichte & Archäologie
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Wirtschaftssektoren & Branchen Schwerindustrie, Montanindustrie

Über Autor(innen)

K. Aslihan Yener, (Ph.D. 1980) in Art History and Archaeology, Columbia University, New York, is Associate Professor of Near Eastern Archaeology in the Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations, University of Chicago. She has directed several excavations in Turkey and published extensively on archaeometallurgy, trade and craft technology.