International conference AMITEM 2008. Ancient mining in Turkey and The Eastern Mediterranean, June 15-22 2008, Ankara, Turkey/ Ed. By Ünsal Yalçın, Hadi Özbal, A. Günhan Paşamehmetoğlu.

Ankara: Atılım University, 2008

480 p., 24. cm.

ISBN: 978-975-6707-20-3

Ücretsizdir.

Content:

Introductory Contributions

Anatolia : Mining and the Use of Raw Materials : Metal

Anatolia : Mining and the Use of Raw  Materials : Non- Metal

Neighbours of Anatolia : Mining and the Use of Raw Materials : Metal and Non-Metal

The main topic of the conference was to examine the latest archaelogical and archaeometallurgical research on the raw metarial utilized by the early cultures in Turkey and neighbouring countries. The importance of raw materials and its trade in the development of human culture is very clear : Without salt no domestication, without metal no efficient weapons and tools, without surplus production no weath, without wealth no luxury goods.