Red Gold of Africa
Copper in Precolonial History and Culture
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 11873409 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Creighton Gabel (corresponding author) |
| Year | 1985 |
| Volume | 90 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 990-990 |
| Publication date | 1985-10-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | REVIEW |
| Review of | Red gold of Africa: Copper in Precolonial History and Culture, Eugenia W Herbert, 1984 |
| Venue | The American Historical Review (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0002-8762 • E-ISSN: 1937-5239 |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.2307/1858970 |
| OpenAlex | W4300823166 |
| Language | EN |
Ancient history · Archaeology · Copper · Gold coast · Metallurgy · African history and culture studies · Colonialism, slavery, and trade · Global Maritime and Colonial Histories · History · Materials Science
Archaeological science, globalisation, and local agency
Archaeological applications of lead isotopic analysis to non‐ferrous metals in Africa
The Social Role of Metals
Materializing the Middle Passage
Metals from K2 and Mapungubwe, Middle Limpopo Valley
An elusive record further exposed
Copper wire objects from Jahunda and Little Mapela
Early farmers at Nyungwe on the Chobe River in Botswana
Mining and the scalar transformations of the state in the Democratic Republic of Congo
The ground stone assemblage of a metal workers community
Crafting power
Knowledge and Belief in Artistic Production by Classic Maya Elites
Ritualized Chipped-Stone Production at Piedras Negras, Guatemala
From desert ores to Middle Kingdom copper
Cairo to Cape
The Salt-Gold Alchemy in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Century Mande World
Congo to Kalahari
Power, Status, and the Archaeology of the Atlantic Experience in Peki, Ghana
Global commodities
From money to commodity
Creating traditions and shaping technologies
Mobilizing the past
XRF and LA-ICP-MS studies of gold and silver artefacts from a 12–13th century CE tumulus in Senegal
Local elites’ extraversion and repositioning
Land and Sea Links
FromSiècles Obscursto revolutionary centuries on the Middle Niger
Coins in Context
Witchcraft, gender, power and intimate relations in Mura compounds in Déla, northern Cameroon
| Citation velocity | historical |
|---|---|
| Highly cited | No |