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WEEK 2
Lecture: Mining and Ancient Ore Deposits, Etc.
Lab: Geology Guest Speaker Mineral/Ore ID lab (worksheet)
WEEK 3
Lecture: Processing and Smelting
Lab: Chemistry Department Smelting Guest Speaker
WEEK 4
Lecture: Casting in Antiquity
Lab: Canceled to make up for field trip to Mine on Saturday
WEEK 6
Lecture: Mesopotamia
Lab: Canceled to make up for field trip to Hopewell historical iron foundry on Saturday
Due: Designs for final Project Object
WEEK 7
Lecture: Egypt
Lab: First trip to Haverford Foundry– Introduction, Safety, Begin Wax
Haven’t Read these yet, but here are some potential sources that a search turned up:
| Title | The Ancient metallurgy of copper : archaeology-experiment-theory / edited by Beno Rothenberg with an introduction by Hans Gert Bachmann ; and contributions by H.G. Bachmann … [et al.] |
| Publisher | London : Institute for Archaeo-Metallurgical Studies [and] Institute of Archaeology, University College, London, 1990 |
| LOCATION | CALL NO. | STATUS |
|---|---|---|
| B Carpenter Folio | f DS110.T63 A53 1990 | AVAILABLE |
| Title | The Egyptian mining temple at Timna / by Beno Rothenberg ; with contributions by H.G. Bachmann … [et al.] |
| Publisher | London : Institute for Archaeo-Metallurgical Studies, Institute of Archaeology, University College, 1988 |
| LOCATION | CALL NO. | STATUS |
|---|---|---|
| B Carpenter Folio (Limited Circulation) | f DS110.T63 E49 1988 | AVAILABLE |
| Title | Timna; valley of the Biblical copper mines [by] Beno Rothenberg |
| Publisher | [London] Thames and Hudson [1972] |
| LOCATION | CALL NO. | STATUS |
|---|---|---|
| B Carpenter (Limited Circulation) | DS110.T63 R67 | AVAILABLE |
If I take a look into these, and other potential Egyptian mining and metallurgy sources, will some others of you look up the other areas we didn’t look at in this class?
WEEK 11
Lecture: Syria, Palestine, Arabia
Lab: Fifth trip to Haverford Foundry–Open Investments and Clean off Bronzes
Okay, so the reading I did for Arabia was
Weeks, Lloyd R. Early metallurgy of the Persian Gulf : technology, trade, and the Bronze Age World. Boston : Brill, 2003
And that was pretty comprehensive, but if secondary readings are needed these are some from Professor Wright’s extended bibiliography:
Hauptmann, A., G. Weisgerber, and H. G. Bachmann. 1988. “Early Copper Metallurgy in Oman.” In The Beginning of the Use of Metals and Alloys, edited by R. Maddin, 34-51. Cambridge, Massachusetts.
Potts, D. T. 1993b. “Rethinking Some Aspects of Trade in the Arabian Gulf.” World Archaeology 24/3: 423-438.
Prange, M. K., H. J. Gotze, A. Hauptmann, and G. Weisgerber. 1999. “Is Oman the Ancient Magan? Analytical Studies of Copper from Oman.” In Metals in Antiquity, edited by S. M. M. Young, A. M. Pollard, P. Budd, and R. A. Ixer, 187-192. Oxford.
Syria/Palestine (from Wright’s bibliography):
Philip, G., P. W. Clogg, and D. Dungworth. 2003. “Copper Metallurgy in the Jordan Valley from the Third to the First Millennia BC: Chemical, Metallographic and Lead Isotope Analyses of Artifacts from Pella.” Levant 35: 71-100.
Raban, A., and E. Galili. 1985. “Recent Maritime Archaeological Research in Israel-A Preliminary Report.” International Journal of Nautical Archaeology 14: 321-356.
Shalev, S., and J. P. Northover, 1993. “The Metallurgy of the Nahal Mishmar Hoard Reconsidered.” Archaeometry 34: 35-47.
And this is pertinent to Palestine, but only in the Iron Age, so I’m not sure where/if that goes in here (or at all?):
Stech-Wheeler, T., J.D. Muhly, K.R. Maxwell-Hyslop and R. Maddin. 1981. Iron at Taanach and Early Iron Metallurgy in the Eastern Mediterranean. AJA 85:3. p. 245-268.
Also, ideas for Smelting & Processing:
Craddock, P. T. Early Metal Mining and Production. Washington D.C.: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1995, chs. 4-5, 7.
Eaton, E.R. and Hugh McKerrel. “Near Eastern Alloying and Some Textual Evidence for the Early Use of Arsenical Copper.” World Archaeology, Vol. 8, No. 2, Climatic Change (Oct., 1976), pp. 169-191
Rehder, J.E. The mastery and uses of fire in antiquity. Ithaca: McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2000, pp. 1-38, 101-160 (chs. 1-4, 10-15)
(This book seems ridiculously comprehensive and kind of technical–it’s written by a metallurgist, not an archaeologist, so some of it is kind of in depth with the science. I cut out chs. 5-9 because they deal exclusively with charcoal and thought it was kind of a lot.)
For Mesopotamia, maybe Archi, A. 1993. “Bronze Alloys in Ebla.” In Between the Rivers and Over the Mountains. Archaeolgica Anatolica et Mesopotamica Alba Palmieri Dedicata, edited by M. Frangipane, H. Hauptmann, M. Liverani, P. Matthiae, and M. Mellink, 615-625. Rome. I can’t remember if this was the reading that talked about the different terms for ‘Bronze,’ but interesting nonetheless. Also Larsen, M. T. 1987. “Commercial Networks in the Ancient Near East.” In Centre and Periphery in the Ancient World, edited by M. Rowlands, M. T. Larsen, and K. Kristiansen, 47-56. Cambridge. That’s a good one to connect Mesopotamia to the rest of the region, especially since we are going to discuss trade networks. Maybe Potts, D. T. 1995. “Distant Shores: Ancient Near Eastern Trade with South Asia and Northeast Africa.” In Civilizations of the Ancient Near East Volume III, edited by J. M. Sasson, 1451-1463. New York or if its too similar to the previous then as a further reading?