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Science 26 August 1966:
Vol. 153. no. 3739, pp. 984 - 985
DOI: 10.1126/science.153.3739.984
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Evidence of Early Pyrometallurgy in the Kerman Range in Iran

Ralph C. Dougherty 1 and Joseph R. Caldwell 2

1 Department of Chemistry, Ohio State University, Columbus
2 Illinois State Museum, Springfield

Physical and chemical anal ysis of pottery fragments, including a crucible shard and ore samples from Tal-i-Iblis, Iran, suggests that copper smelting may have been well advantced late in the fifth millennium B.C.


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