The Domestication of Metals: The Rise of Complex Metal Industries in Anatolia

This publication presents the results of several years of archaeometallurgical surveys and excavations in the Taurus Mountains of southern Turkey. In addition instrumental analyses of metal artifacts spanning from the aceramic Neolithic to the end of the second millennium B.C. (8000-2000 B.C.) placed within their archaeological contexts are presented as precursors to the rise of technologically sophisticated metal industries in Anatolia.