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Metallic Minerals, Ores, and Metals

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This chapter may seem somewhat unusual to those readers more accustomed to other discussions of archaeometallurgy. Typical of those researches, one often finds the focus on the metal artifact foremost with ancillary areas such as manufacturing, utilization, and provenance archaeological/geochemical) examined at various levels of detail. These emphases are important and well placed particularly from the standpoint of the materials science, but it is the aim of this chapter to characterize archaeological metals, minerals, and ores from a geological perspective. By this, we mean to discuss the geology of ancient metallurgy without any special emphasis on the end product, e.g., the metal artifact.

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Garrison, E. (2016). Metallic Minerals, Ores, and Metals. In: Techniques in Archaeological Geology. Natural Science in Archaeology. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-30232-4_9

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