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020			_a9788173051777
082			_a 950.2 Ag81 A _b21765
245			_a Ancient metal technology and archaeology of South Asia : a Pan-Asian perspective _cAgrawall D P
250			_a1st edition
260			_aNew Delhi _bAryan Books International _c2000
300			_a272
500			_aThe 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.
650			_aMetal-work, Prehistoric
650			_aMetallurgy
942			_cBK