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Ancient Society and Metallurgy

2012 Bronze Age
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Release : 2012
Genre : Bronze Age
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Book Synopsis Ancient Society and Metallurgy by : Dr. Liangren Zhang

Download or read book Ancient Society and Metallurgy written by Dr. Liangren Zhang. This book was released on 2012. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Focusing on Bronze Age societies in Central Eurasia and North China, this book presents a new scenario of early social evolution. Essentially it integrates the Marxist production-relation concept and the community concept into the Band-Tribe-Chiefdom-State scheme, and formulates the following three hypotheses: 1) The community is an autonomous agent in political, economic, and cultural spheres; 2) The nature of the early social evolution is that the inter-community differentiation at the tribal stage transforms into the inter-community stratification at the chiefdom and state stages; 3) Metal production as a form of economy is a major force that instigates the inter-community differentiation. In testing the three hypotheses, Bronze Age archaeological data from Central Eurasia and North China are subjected to detailed examination. The Central Eurasian societies and the Late Shang kingdom are all engaged in metal production yet they represent two disparate stages of social development, the tribal and state stages respectively. This contrast gives us an excellent opportunity to reflect upon the trajectory of early social evolution and the role of metal production in this process. Virtually the two bodies of materials supply a desirable testing ground for the three hypotheses raised above.

Ancient African Metallurgy

2000 History
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Release : 2000
Genre : History
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Book Synopsis Ancient African Metallurgy by : Michael S. Bisson

Download or read book Ancient African Metallurgy written by Michael S. Bisson. This book was released on 2000. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gold. Copper. Iron. Metal working in Africa has been the subject of both popular lore and extensive archaeological investigation. In this volume, four leading archaeologists attempt to provide a complete synthesis of current debates and understandings: When, how and where was metal first introduced to the continent? How were iron and copper tools, implements, and objects used in everyday life, in trade, in political and cultural contexts? What role did metals play in the ideological systems of precolonial African peoples? Substantive chapters address the origins of African metal working and analyze the specific uses, technology, and ideology of both copper and iron. An ethnoarchaeological account in the words of a contemporary iron worker enriches the archaeological explanations. The volume will be of great value to scholars and students of archaeology, African history, and the history of technology.

Ancient Society and Metallurgy

2007 Bronze age
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Release : 2007
Genre : Bronze age
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Book Synopsis Ancient Society and Metallurgy by : Liangren Zhang

Download or read book Ancient Society and Metallurgy written by Liangren Zhang. This book was released on 2007. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The third proposition is not entirely valid. In both Central Eurasia and the Late Shang kingdom, metallurgy does not explain social differentiation at all levels, but it does explain it in a general sense. In Central Eurasia it accounts for the inter-community differentiation at the cross-regional scale. Communities in the ore-rich sub-regions generally rank higher than those in the ore-deficient ones. Communities in the Eastern Urals sub-region, a sub-region blessed with the highly demanded polymetallic ores, accrue greater wealth than their counterparts in the other sub-regions by engaging in metal production and trade of copper ingots, and metal artifacts. In the Late Shang kingdom, the royal house maintains its supreme status by controlling bronze foundries and metalworking communities.

Ancient Metallurgy in the USSR

1992-12-03 History
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Release : 1992-12-03
Genre : History
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Book Synopsis Ancient Metallurgy in the USSR by : Evgenil Nikolaevich Chernykh

Download or read book Ancient Metallurgy in the USSR written by Evgenil Nikolaevich Chernykh. This book was released on 1992-12-03. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of the leading Soviet archaeologists describes the development of ancient mining and metallurgy in the northern half of Eurasia. While the first traces of metallurgical activity date from between the seventh and the sixth millennium BC, significant mining developed only in the fifth millennium BC, in the northern Balkans and Carpathians. Metal producing centres were in these northern 'barbarian peripheral' regions rather than in the Near East and Asia Minor, areas traditionally associated with early classical civilization. Professor Chernykh describes successive periods of metallurgical activity in different regions: the Carpatho-Balkan Metallurgical Province of the Copper Age: the Circumpontic of the Early and Middle Bronze Age: and the Eurasian, European Caucasian, Central Asian and Irano-Afghan of the Late Bronze Age. He provides detailed information about the different groups of copper and bronze artefacts, their chemical composition, and their dispersion in time and space. He analyses the international metallurgical trade and division of labour and, finally, the collapse of the sociocultural systems in these metallurgical centres in the first millennium BC.

The Role of Metals in Ancient Greek History

2018-07-17 Literary Criticism
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Release : 2018-07-17
Genre : Literary Criticism
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Book Synopsis The Role of Metals in Ancient Greek History by : M. Yu. Treister

Download or read book The Role of Metals in Ancient Greek History written by M. Yu. Treister. This book was released on 2018-07-17. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first in-depth study of the field in more than 20 years analyzes the role of various metals in the context of Greek economic life, politics, culture and art, traces the movement of metal from ore to finished objects, including works of art, and shows the relations between the regions where metals were extracted and the centres of metalworking, the structure of the workshops and the connections between them and the role of the workshops in economic life at different stages in Greek history. In doing so it adopts a multidisciplinary approach, defining the role of metals in the history of Greek society using the widest possible variety of sources: the excavated remains of workshops and hoards, archaeometallurgical finds; the results of studies of ancient mines and analyses of ancient metal objects; bronze plastics and jewelry, coins etc. The chronological span of the study is the 8th-1st centuries B.C., i.e. from the beginning of the main period of Greek colonization till the end of the Hellenistic era. The geographical scope of the work is the Greek oikumene. New to most scholars will be Treister's knowledge of objects and technologies in the eastern Greek and Roman world of the Northern Black Sea and Colchis. While this book does not pretend to be a definitive survey of the history of mining and metallurgy in the Greek world, it is a particularly useful interim report.

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