Ancient metal technology and archaeology of South Asia : a Pan-Asian perspective 
Agrawall D P 
 - 1st edition 
 - New Delhi  Aryan Books International  2000 
 - 272 
<br/><br/> The focus of the book is primarily on the ancient metal technology South Asia but its not a technical treatise. Archaeometallurgy has been situated in the matrix of archaeology. Such studies have a meaning  only in the human context of the past. The introductory chapter of the book emphasizes, by giving examples, what such technical studies should aim at and what all one can glean about the past through them. Main emphasis on copper /bronze but other metals have been duly covered: silver, gold, tin arsenic, lead, brass and iron.  
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9788173051777 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Metal-work, Prehistoric<br/>Metallurgy
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>950.2 Ag81 A  / 21765