This volume grew out of the proceedings of an international conference on the Prehistory of Mining and Metallurgy hosted by The British Museum in 1995. The orig
Technical advancement has for millennia been intimately linked to the mining and production of metals, and this book provides a comprehensive history of the ear
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
The first of four volumes, which examine non-ferrous precious and base metal mining, metallurgy and minting in the Middle Ages, encompasses the history of these
This book deals with the history of mining and smelting from the Renaissance to the present. Martin Lynch opens with the invention, sometime before 1453, of a r