Titlebook: Metals in Past Societies; A Global Perspective Shadreck Chirikure Book 2015 The Author 2015 Archaeology of mining.Developmental trajectory

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Metals and the Production and Reproduction of Society,deed, they were shaped, and in turn shaped the societies that produced them. Sociologically and technologically, it is therefore impossible to divorce metals from society. Metals featured prominently in quotidian items of everyday use; they featured strongly in religious ceremonies and were an impor

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,Origins and Development of Africa’s Preindustrial Mining and Metallurgy,cifically in regions to the south of the Sahara and the Sudan. Egypt (including Egyptian Nubia), North Africa and the Horn of Africa share the same developmental trajectory where copper and bronze working prefaced iron metallurgy by millennia. Gold, silver, mercury, tin and lead were also known. Thi

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Mother Earth Provides: Mining and Crossing the Boundary Between Nature and Culture,s were enormous enterprises. This chapter is devoted to one such element: the technology and anthropology of mining—the process of extracting ores from the surface or sub-surface of the earth. Mining was a social act that simultaneously articulated and reproduced society. A number of mining techniqu

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Domesticating Nature,. Metal smelting was simultaneously a technological and sociocultural process. Because of disparities in the cultural inheritances of metallurgy in various parts of Africa, there too were significant differences in smelting apparatuses used. Egypt, the Egyptian Sudan and North Africa possessed simil

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The Social Role of Metals,s this theme further by focusing on the social role of metals across different layers of society. The impact of metals was only gradually felt after their introduction but when well established the influence of metals virtually extended to each and every corner of society. Metals were fashioned into

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Book 2015iation across space and time, methods of mining and extractive metallurgy and the fabrication of metal objects.? These processes were transformative in a physical and metaphoric sense, which made them total social facts. Because the production and use of metals was an accretion of various categories