Talk:Nonferrous archaeometallurgy of the Southern Levant

Intro
I moved this paragraph here from the lead - it is not specific enough to the subject of this article.


 * The archaeology of metals (or as it is called today—archaeometallurgy) is a research branch of archaeology that is as old as methodological archaeological research itself. The first stage in the study of ancient metals was arranging the finds according to shape, size, material, and function. At that stage the material was characterized mainly by surface color of the object, and the production mode was reconstructed by logical assumptions based upon the shape of the object. It was slightly later that metallurgical and metallographic analyses were incorporated in the typological study of ancient metals from the “Old World”. The first textbooks of archaeometallurgy appeared during the 1950s and 1960s (i.e., Coghlan; Tylecote ). Since then, archaeometallurgy is well established within the various aspects of “modern” archaeology.

Oncenawhile (talk) 21:50, 3 August 2015 (UTC)