Creating traditions and shaping technologies: Understanding the earliest metal objects and metal production in Western Europe

World Archaeology

Volumn 40, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 354-372

  Roberts, Ben ^a  

^a BRITISH MUSEUM   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Consumption; Cultural transmission; Metallurgical traditions; Networks of expertise; Western Europe

Indexed keywords

ACCULTURATION; ARCHAEOLOGICAL EVIDENCE; CULTURAL HISTORY; CULTURAL TRADITION; HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVE; METALLURGY; PREHISTORIC;

EURASIA; EUROPE; WESTERN EUROPE;

EID: 49549104915     PISSN: 00438243     EISSN: 14701375     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00438240802261390     Document Type: Article

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