1. Mining and metallurgical labor in Islamic period Southwest Asia.
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Jones, Ian W. N.
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GOLD mining , *COPPER , *HISTORICAL source material , *GROUP identity , *METALLURGY - Abstract
As a richly-documented historical case study, Islamic period Southwest Asia provides useful insights into the archaeology of mining and metallurgy. Labor, however, is more difficult to reconstruct from available historical sources, and its study requires a more directly archaeological approach. This paper presents a series of approaches to mining and metallurgical labor, drawing primarily on case studies of copper, silver, and gold mines in Southwest Asia, to address issues of labor provisioning and organization, the social identities of laborers, and the ways in which laborers deployed and transmitted specialized knowledge of metallurgical practices. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2023
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