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I'd recommend "Early Metal Mining and Production" by Paul T. Craddock... excellent book.Tero wrote:I poked around with books, and all I found was archeology books. Once again Wiki wins:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of ... metallurgy
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I deal exclusively with Basement Cat.Svartalf wrote:You gonna claim revlashuf from Ceiling cat?
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Thanks. It was of outof print, and a bit long. I haven't started smithing yet. This was more available but used copies are 54 dollarsPappa wrote:I'd recommend "Early Metal Mining and Production" by Paul T. Craddock... excellent book.Tero wrote:I poked around with books, and all I found was archeology books. Once again Wiki wins:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of ... metallurgy
http://www.amazon.com/Technology-Scienc ... 669&sr=8-4
I got some other used paperback, on "technology."
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> Pappa, have you been here?
http://www.greatormemines.info/the%20tour.htm
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WHAAAAT?! Since when was there something like that at the Great Orme of Llandudno? We were there in 1997, and saw mostly boring and thoroughly touristy stuff (and got out of Llandudno as quick as we could). If we managed to miss those mines, majorTero wrote:> Pappa, have you been here?
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No.... but I really should get round to it one day soon.Tero wrote:> Pappa, have you been here?
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Note to self: Kurgan hypothesis.
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The whole set of useless hypotheses
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How did we, us homos, get to Japan 10 000 BCE? N America we just walked to.
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Boat? The sea levels were lower too, so I expect they may have had less distance to travel. They managed to island-hop all the way to Australia.Tero wrote:How did we, us homos, get to Japan 10 000 BCE? N America we just walked to.
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