The local and global dimensions of metalliferous pollution derived from a reconstruction of an eight thousand year record of copper smelting and mining at a desert-mountain frontier in southern Jordan

Journal of Archaeological Science

Volumn 34, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 83-110

  Grattan, J P ^a   Gilbertson, D D ^b   Hunt, C O ^c  

^a ABERYSTWYTH UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PLYMOUTH   (United Kingdom)

^c QUEEN'S UNIVERSITY BELFAST   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Ancient economy; Atmospheric circulation; Copper; Deserts; Geomorphology; Holocene; Jordan; Lead; Mediterranean; Pollution; Thallium; World systems theory

Indexed keywords

ANTHROPOGENIC EFFECT; ARCHAEOLOGICAL EVIDENCE; BRONZE AGE; EXTRACTION; HEAVY METAL; HOLOCENE; HUMAN ACTIVITY; INDUSTRIAL TECHNOLOGY; NEOLITHIC; NINETEENTH CENTURY; SMELTING; TRACE ELEMENT;

ASIA; EURASIA; JORDAN; MIDDLE EAST;

EID: 33749353509     PISSN: 03054403     EISSN: 10959238     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jas.2006.04.004     Document Type: Article

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