Technical advancement has for millennia been intimately linked to the mining and production of metals, and this book provides a comprehensive history of the ear

This volume grew out of the proceedings of an international conference on the Prehistory of Mining and Metallurgy hosted by The British Museum in 1995. The orig

The history of mining is replete with controversy of which much is related to environmental damage and consequent community outrage. Over recent decades, this h

This volume presents over fifteen years (1981-1996) of archaeometallurgy surveys and specifically the excavations of an Early Bronze Age miners' village, Goltep