The Rise of Metallurgy in Eurasia: Evolution, Organisation and Consumption of Early Metal in the Balkans
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| Publisher | Archaeopress Archaeology |
| ISBN 13 | 9781803270425 |
| ISBN 10 | 180327042X |
| Book Description | The Rise of Metallurgy in Eurasia is a landmark study in the origins of metallurgy. The project aimed to trace the invention and innovation of metallurgy in the Balkans. It combined targeted excavations and surveys with extensive scientific analyses at two Neolithic-Chalcolithic copper production and consumption sites, Belovode and Plonik, in Serbia. At Belovode, the project revealed chronologically and contextually secure evidence for copper smelting in the 49th century BC. This confirms the earlier interpretation of c. 7000-year-old metallurgy at the site, making it the earliest record of fully developed metallurgical activity in the world. However, far from being a rare and elite practice, metallurgy at both Belovode and Plonik is demonstrated to have been a common and communal craft activity. This monograph reviews the pre-existing scholarship on early metallurgy in the Balkans. It subsequently presents detailed results from the excavations, surveys and scientific analyses conducted at Belovode and Plonik. These are followed by new and up-to-date regional syntheses by leading specialists on the Neolithic-Chalcolithic material culture, technologies, settlement and subsistence practices in the Central Balkans. Finally, the monograph places the project results in the context of major debates surrounding early metallurgy in Eurasia before proposing a new agenda for global early metallurgy studies. |
| About the Author | Miljana Radivojevi holds the Archaeomaterials Lectureship at the UCL Institute of Archaeology (UK), where she graduated in Archaeometallurgy. She has spent more than 20 years publishing on early metallurgy in the Balkans and southwest Asia and the role of aesthetics in the invention of novel technologies. She continues to explore the evolution of metallurgy across most of prehistoric Eurasia as a means of uncovering the histories of metalsmiths, and the societies and environments they lived in.Benjamin Roberts has spent over 20 years researching and publishing on European Copper and Bronze Age archaeology and frequently metallurgy and metal objects across Europe. He co-edited with Chris Thornton Archaeometallurgy in Global perspective: Methods and Syntheses (2014) and is currently leading Project Ancient Tin. Prior to joining the Department of Archaeology at Durham University, he was the Curator for the European Bronze Age collections in the British Museum.Miroslav Mari is a specialist in the Neolithic-Bronze Age of the central Balkans at the Institute for Balkan Studies, Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts, Serbia. He is the field director of the Gradite Io project. His research interests include settlement archaeology, landscape archaeology, the Neolithic and Bronze Age of the Balkans, and radiocarbon dating.Julka Kuzmanovi-Cvetkovi was the Senior Custodian (now retired) at the Homeland Museum of Toplica in Prokuplje, Serbia. She spent more than four decades excavating the site of Plonik, and developed a unique open air archaeo-park on the site that attracts tourists from the region, and across the globe.Prof. Thilo Rehren is the A.G. Leventis Professor for Archaeological Sciences and Director of the Science and Technology, Nicosia, Cyprus. In 1999 he was appointed to a Chair in Archaeological Materials at the UCL Institute of Archaeology in London, UK. Following a five-year secondment to establish UCL Qatar as a postgraduate training and research Centre of Excellence in Museology, Conservation and Archaeology he joined the Cyprus Institute in 2017. He places particular emphasis on the integration of archaeological, scientific and historical information, and on investigating the correlation and cross-fertilisation between different crafts and industries in the past. |
| Language | English |
| Author | Miljana RadivojeviÄ |
| Language | English |
| Publication Date | 12/23/2021 |
| Number of Pages | 700.0 |
The Rise of Metallurgy in Eurasia: Evolution, Organisation and Consumption of Early Metal in the Balkans
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