...innovations mankind's history, far more than taking the crucial steps from experimental shaping and cold-hammering to annealing and finally to smelting the metal from the ore, thus giving birth to pyrotechnology with all its technological implications. Metals, indeed, make the "world go round," as it was nicely phrased at a recent symposium. (See Metals Make the World Go Round: The Supply and Circulation of Metals in Bronze Age Europe, ed. C. Pare [Oxford, 2000].) The quest for metals provoked large-scale interregional trade in the Mediterranean and the Near East, bringing together remote cultures with often profoundly different social and technological backgrounds. However, to reconstruct the motivation and mechanism of these contacts, the analysis of the chemical composition of metal...

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