Prehistoric Metallurgy at Tell Abraq, U. A. E.

Title
Prehistoric Metallurgy at Tell Abraq, U. A. E.
Publication Date
1997
Author(s)
Weeks, Lloyd
( author )
OrcID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4736-9633
Email: lweeks2@une.edu.au
UNE Id une-id:lweeks2
Type of document
Journal Article
Language
en
Entity Type
Publication
Publisher
Munksgaard
Place of publication
United States of America
DOI
10.1111/j.1600-0471.1997.tb00147.x
UNE publication id
une:15094
Abstract
This article presents the results of an investigation into the production of copper and bronze objects at the prehistoric site of Tell Abraq, United Arab Emirates (Fig. 1). During the course of four seasons of excavation since 1989, over 550 metal objects have been unearthed from all occupational phases at Tell Abraq. These objects were made of copper and copper alloys, and consist not only of completed objects and recognisable fragments of such, but also amorphous 'blobs' or droplets of metal, ceramic fragments with copper adhering and a copper ingot. Such discoveries led the excavators of Tell Abraq to suspect that copper and bronze may have been worked at the site in antiquity (2).
Link
Citation
Arabian Archaeology and Epigraphy, 8(1), p. 11-85
ISSN
1600-0471
0905-7196
Start page
11
End page
85

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