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This volume examines the earliest production and exchange of copper and its alloys in the Persian Gulf, a major metal supply route for the Bronze Age societies of Western Asia. Weeks addresses the geological and technological background to copper production in southeastern Arabia and contextualizes evidence for major fluctuations in prehistoric copper production. The core of the volume contists of compositional and isotopic analyses. The relationship between specialized copper production, exchange, and the development of social complexity in early Arabia is examined, and the author addresses the broader archaeological issue of the Bronze Age tin trade, which linked vast areas of Western Asia, from the Indo-Iranian borderlands to the Aegean, in the third millennium BC.

Bronze age --- Metal-work, Prehistoric --- Mines and mineral resources, Prehistoric --- Excavations (Archaeology) --- Bronze --- Tin bronze. --- Anthropology --- Social Sciences --- Prehistoric Anthropology --- Tin alloys --- Copper alloys --- Archaeological digs --- Archaeological excavations --- Digs (Archaeology) --- Excavation sites (Archaeology) --- Ruins --- Sites, Excavation (Archaeology) --- Archaeology --- Prehistoric mines and mineral resources --- Metallurgy, Prehistoric --- Paleometallurgy --- Prehistoric metal-work --- Prehistoric metallurgy --- Civilization --- Metallurgy. --- Persian Gulf --- Arabian Gulf --- Antiquities. --- Metal-work, Prehistoric.

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Urbanization --- Community development, Urban --- Urban anthropology --- Sociology, Urban --- Anthropology, Urban --- Ethnology

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Bryophytes, especially mosses, represent a largely untapped resource for monitoring and indicating effects of climate change on the living environment. They are tied very closely to the external environment and have been likened to 'canaries in the coal mine'. Bryophyte Ecology and Climate Change is the first book to bring together a diverse array of research in bryophyte ecology, including physiology, desiccation tolerance, photosynthesis, temperature and UV responses, under the umbrella of climate change. It covers a great variety of ecosystems in which bryophytes are important, including aquatic, desert, tropical, boreal, alpine, Antarctic, and Sphagnum-dominated wetlands, and considers the effects of climate change on the distribution of common and rare species as well as the computer modeling of future changes. This book should be of particular value to individuals, libraries, and research institutions interested in global climate change.

BRY Bryophytes --- Bryophyta = Musci = mosses --- ecology --- climatic changes --- climate impact --- Bryophytes --- Bryophyta --- Bryophyte flora --- Bryophyte vegetation --- Archegoniatae --- Cryptogams --- Bryology --- Climatic factors. --- Ecology.