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Societies in Transition: Early Metallurgy Around the World

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Societies in Transition
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Professor David Killick (Dept. Anthropology, University of Arizona) talks about the invention of metallurgy and the transition from the Stone Age to the Bronze Age and what the social roles of emerging metallurgy were in societies throughout the world.

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Societies in Transition
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David Killick
Keywords
metallurgy
Bronze Age
anthropology
society
Linacre college
stone age
archaeology
Department: Linacre College
Date Added: 24/03/2009
Duration: 00:58:02

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