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Ancient African metallurgy : the socio-cultural context

Title
Ancient African metallurgy : the socio-cultural context / Michael S. Bisson [and others] ; edited and with a foreword by Joseph O. Vogel.
Publication
Walnut Creek, CA : AltaMira Press, ©2000.

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Additional Authors
  • Bisson, Michael S.
  • Vogel, Joseph O.
Description
xviii, 294 pages : illustrations, maps; 24 cm
Subject
  • Metal-work > Africa > History
  • Metal-work, Prehistoric > Africa
  • Copperwork > Africa > History
  • Ironwork > Africa > History
  • Ethnoarchaeology > Africa
  • Antiquities
  • Copperwork
  • Ethnoarchaeology
  • Ironwork
  • Metal-work
  • Metal-work, Prehistoric
  • Ethnoarchäologie
  • Metallverarbeitung
  • Metaalbewerking
  • Sociale aspecten
  • Africa > Antiquities
  • Africa
  • Afrika
Genre/Form
History.
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (p. 255-276) and indexes.
Contents
Metals and precolonial African society / Augustin F.C. Holl -- Precolonial Copper metallurgy: sociopolitical context / Michael S. Bisson -- Iron metallurgy: sociocultural context / Philip de Barros -- Traditional iron working: a narrated ethnoarchaelogical example / S. Terry Childs.
ISBN
  • 0742502600
  • 9780742502604
  • 0742502619
  • 9780742502611
LCCN
00036210
OCLC
  • ocm43708643
  • 43708643
  • SCSB-1136243
Owning Institutions
Princeton University Library