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Metals in Past Societies

Paperback • 2015 • 1. edition

Metals in Past Societies

By Shadreck Chirikure

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About the book

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 a physical and metaphoric sense, which made them total social facts. Because the production and use of metals was an accretion of various categories of practice, a chaine operatoire conceptual and the...Show more

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9783319116402

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Springer International Publishing AG

Published year

2015

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Metals in Past Societies

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