Minerals and Metals in Ancient India v1.c18.12
Minerals and Metals in Ancient India v1.c18.12
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Maddin et al. (1980) concluded that no adequate criteria exist for distinguishing artefacts of native copper from those of worked and recrystallized smelted copper of high purity. The seventh millennium BC copper artefacts in Cayönü in south-eastern Turkey and in Mehrgarh of the Indian sub-continent arose in the aceramic context and therefore could be native copper.