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Copper mines in Jordan
Posted: 28/10/2008 13:49:13 Reply | Quote Today's Times has something about recent excavations on ancient copper mines in Jordan: [link] Shame the media have to go for the "king Solomon's mines" angle, but I suppose it's the only way to get them to pay attention..... -- Follow the horses, Johnny my laddie, Follow the horses canny lad-oh IP: 217.205.66.77 |
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Copper mines in Jordan
Posted: 28/10/2008 20:08:09 Reply | Quote The interesting thing about copper mining sites is their relationship with tin extraction sites. Copper on its own is quite useful - but combined with tin it produced the origins of the modern world. IP: 86.153.89.195 |
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Posted: 28/10/2008 20:11:24 Reply | Quote Off the top of my head, the nearest source of tin suggested to have been mined in the Bronze Age would have been Kestel in Turkey (although this has been disputed). Still, not a vast distance away..... -- Follow the horses, Johnny my laddie, Follow the horses canny lad-oh IP: 79.71.129.18 |
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Posted: 28/10/2008 21:06:02 Reply | Quote There are a number of papers on this, I have a couple but one is "The sources of Tin and the Begininngs of Bronze Metallurgy" by James D Muhly. American Journal of Archaeology 1985 Vol 89 pt 2. There is also more recently "Tin Processing at Goltepe, An Early Bronze Age Site in Ananotolia" by Yenner And Vandiver. As you know if we are talking about tin bronze (not arsenic bronze) copper was relatively plentiful (Cyprus) but tin wasn't. An ongoing subject. The Phoenician tin probably came from Africa. Edit. The United Arab Emirates also enter the frame with lead isotope analysis of meatal samples taken at Tell Abraq. -- The past is a foreign country: they do things differently there. IP: 79.74.164.66 Edited: 28/10/2008 21:10:31 by carnkie |
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Posted: 29/10/2008 13:57:19 Reply | Quote AR wrote: Off the top of my head, the nearest source of tin suggested to have been mined in the Bronze Age would have been Kestel in Turkey (although this has been disputed). Still, not a vast distance away..... I uploaded this some time ago. Might be of some interrest. [link] -- The past is a foreign country: they do things differently there. IP: 79.74.180.182 |
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Posted: 29/10/2008 18:47:34 Reply | Quote Thanks for posting this - it is of great interest. -- BILL IP: 86.153.89.195 |
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Posted: 29/10/2008 19:32:14 Reply | Quote Here's an article on Kestel: [link] -- Follow the horses, Johnny my laddie, Follow the horses canny lad-oh IP: 88.109.66.152 |
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Posted: 29/10/2008 21:48:09 Reply | Quote did you see the cave xls in the mines at naica mexico, mad or what.  -- be afraid.....very afraid !!!! IP: 86.152.195.2 |
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