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Title: | Coals to Newcastle, copper to Magan? Isotopic analyses and the Persian Gulf metals trade | Contributor(s): | Weeks, Lloyd (author) | Publication Date: | 2007 | Handle Link: | https://hdl.handle.net/1959.11/15094 | 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. | Publication Type: | Book Chapter | Source of Publication: | Metals and Mines: Studies in Archaeometallurgy, p. 89-96 | Publisher: | Archetype | Place of Publication: | London, United Kingdom | ISBN: | 9781904982197 | Fields of Research (FoR) 2008: | 210103 Archaeology of Asia, Africa and the Americas | Socio-Economic Objective (SEO) 2008: | 970121 Expanding Knowledge in History and Archaeology | HERDC Category Description: | B1 Chapter in a Scholarly Book | Publisher/associated links: | http://trove.nla.gov.au/version/30192636 | Editor: | Editor(s): Susan La Niece, Duncan Hook, Paul Craddock |
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