In:
Antiquity, Cambridge University Press (CUP), Vol. 66, No. 252 ( 1992-09), p. 677-686
Abstract:
Studies of prehistoric extractive and fabrication techniques suggest that the traditional view, that the earliest copper metallurgy in the British Isles was based on the exploitation of primary minerals deriving from the southwest of Ireland, is fallacious. Elaborate mineral selection and process control is not needed to produce copper of the composition reported for the Early Bronze Age, and so ore deposits in Britain were probably being exploited from a very early period.
Type of Medium:
Online Resource
ISSN:
0003-598X
,
1745-1744
DOI:
10.1017/S0003598X00039375
Language:
English
Publisher:
Cambridge University Press (CUP)
Publication Date:
1992
detail.hit.zdb_id:
2031736-0
SSG:
6,14
SSG:
6,11
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