Coals to Newcastle, copper to Magan? Isotopic analyses and the Persian Gulf metals trade

Title
Coals to Newcastle, copper to Magan? Isotopic analyses and the Persian Gulf metals trade
Publication Date
2007
Author(s)
Weeks, Lloyd
( author )
OrcID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4736-9633
Email: lweeks2@une.edu.au
UNE Id une-id:lweeks2
Editor
Editor(s): Susan La Niece, Duncan Hook, Paul Craddock
Type of document
Book Chapter
Language
en
Entity Type
Publication
Publisher
Archetype
Place of publication
London, United Kingdom
Edition
1
UNE publication id
une:15309
Abstract
This paper reviews the most recent evidence for metal production and exchange systems in the Bronze Age Persian Gulf. In particular, the evidence for the use of non-Omani metal (tin and tin-bronze) is addressed, and the implications for our understanding of the development of local alloying and exchange are discussed. Subsequently, the more unexpected possibility that copper ingots were being imported into copper-rich Oman in the Bronze Age is addressed. Upon consideration of the evidence, it seems possible that the putative foreign copper ingots are in fact local products, although there is a deal of ambiguity in relation to these claims.
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Citation
Metals and Mines: Studies in Archaeometallurgy, p. 89-96
ISBN
9781904982197
Start page
89
End page
96

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