ANTH 9 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Chalcolithic, Urewe, Bronze Age
16 Aug 2020
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Process of metal production is vastly different today than it was in the past (in the video) Mining smelting smiting/forging consumption = direct process of iron production. The pattern, technology and impetus for acquiring metals is more elusive in certain areas than others archaeologists don"t find things the way they appeared in the historical record. We have to re-pattern events and artefacts. Traditional views on the history of metallurgy in the old world. Metallurgy began around 6000bc in the middle east and serbia (11000-9000bc?) Evidence comes in the form of purposefully smelted copper ores. Many areas have natural copper, smelting is not necessary therefore, must look for intentionally made copper. Copper age, bronze age and iron age. Use of meteoric ores, heat treatment, melting, smelting. Don"t have to know specifics just learn 1-2 examples. The phenomenon of the bantu people fascinated linguists. From the 1960s, archaeologists tried to find evidence to validate the linguistic picture.
