Society and Technology: Metallurgy in Ancient Mesopotamia

FAIN: RO-20778-84

University of Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, PA 19104-6205)
Robert H. Dyson (Project Director: October 1983 to October 1990)

To provide continuing support for metallographic analysis of a sample of copper-based artifacts recovered from three sites in ancient Mesopotamia with the expectation of revealing patterns of variation in Sumerian use of alloys and of gaining new insights on the development of this metallurgy.