Prehistoric Copper Mining in Europe
Title | Prehistoric Copper Mining in Europe PDF eBook |
Author | William O'Brien |
Publisher | Oxford University Press, USA |
Pages | 366 |
Release | 2015 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 0199605653 |
Readership : Scholars and students interested in archaeometallurgy and the history of European prehistoric mining, and prehistoric Europe more generally.
Prehistoric Copper Mining in Michigan
Title | Prehistoric Copper Mining in Michigan PDF eBook |
Author | John R. Halsey |
Publisher | U OF M MUSEUM ANTHRO ARCHAEOLOGY |
Pages | 351 |
Release | 2018-01-01 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 0915703890 |
Isle Royale and the counties that line the northwest coast of Michigan’s Upper Peninsula are called Copper Country because of the rich deposits of native copper there. In the nineteenth century, explorers and miners discovered evidence of prehistoric copper mining in this region. They used those “ancient diggings” as a guide to establishing their own, much larger mines, and in the process, destroyed the archaeological record left by the prehistoric miners. Using mining reports, newspaper accounts, personal letters, and other sources, this book reconstructs what these nineteenth-century discoverers found, how they interpreted the material remains of prehistoric activity, and what they did with the stone, wood, and copper tools they found at the prehistoric sites. “This volume represents an exhaustive compilation of the early written and published accounts of mines and mining in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula. It will prove a valuable resource to current and future scholars. Through these early historic accounts of prospectors and miners, Halsey provides a vivid picture of what once could be seen.” —John M. O’Shea, curator of Great Lakes Archaeology, University of Michigan Museum of Anthropological Archaeology
Mining for Ancient Copper
Title | Mining for Ancient Copper PDF eBook |
Author | Erez Ben-Yosef |
Publisher | Eisenbrauns |
Pages | 0 |
Release | 2018 |
Genre | Copper age |
ISBN | 9781575069647 |
A collection of new studies dedicated to Professor Beno Rothenberg, focused on copper in antiquity in the Near East, the eastern Mediterranean, and the British Isles.
Derrycarhoon
Title | Derrycarhoon PDF eBook |
Author | William O'Brien |
Publisher | International |
Pages | 234 |
Release | 2022-02-28 |
Genre | |
ISBN | 9781407359250 |
This book studies a prehistoric copper mine in south-west Ireland, the first later Bronze Age example identified, c.1300-1000 BC.
Boom and Bust in Bronze Age Britain: The Great Orme Copper Mine and European Trade
Title | Boom and Bust in Bronze Age Britain: The Great Orme Copper Mine and European Trade PDF eBook |
Author | R. Alan Williams |
Publisher | Archaeopress Publishing Ltd |
Pages | 362 |
Release | 2023-02-23 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 1803273798 |
The Great Orme copper mine in North Wales is one of the largest surviving Bronze Age mines in Europe. This book presents new interdisciplinary research to reveal a copper mine of European importance, dominating Britain’s copper supply from c. 1600-1400 BC, with some metal reaching mainland Europe - from Brittany to as far as the Baltic.
Prehistoric Copper Mining in the Lake Superior Region
Title | Prehistoric Copper Mining in the Lake Superior Region PDF eBook |
Author | Roy Ward Drier |
Publisher | |
Pages | 232 |
Release | 1961 |
Genre | Copper mines and mining |
ISBN |
Prehistoric Gold in Europe
Title | Prehistoric Gold in Europe PDF eBook |
Author | Giulio Morteani |
Publisher | Springer Science & Business Media |
Pages | 604 |
Release | 2013-06-29 |
Genre | Technology & Engineering |
ISBN | 9401512922 |
Interest in the study of early European cultures is growing. These cultures have left us objects made of gold, other metals and ceramics. The advent of metal detectors, coupled with improved analytical techniques, has increased the number of findings of such objects enormously. Gold was used for economic and ceremonial purposes and thus the gold objects are an important key to our understanding of the social and political structures, as well as the technological achievements, of Bronze and Iron Age European societies. A correct interpretation of the information provided by gold and other metal objects requires the cooperation of experts in the fields of social, materials and natural science. Detailed investigation of gold deposits in Europe have revealed the composition and genesis of the deposits as sources of the metal. In Prehistoric Gold in Europe, a group of leading European geoscientists, metallurgists and archaeologists discuss the techniques of gold mining and metallurgy, the socioeconomic importance of gold as coinage and a symbol of wealth and status, and as an indicator of religious habits, as well as a mirror of trade and cultural relations mirrored by the distribution and types of gold objects in prehistoric times.