Download or read book Physical Barriers, Cultural Connections: A Reconsideration of the Metal Flow at the Beginning of the Metal Age in the Alps written by Laura Perucchetti and published by Archaeopress Publishing Ltd. This book was released on 2017-06-30 with total page 186 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book considers the early copper and copper-alloy metallurgy of the entire Circum- Alpine region. It introduces a new approach to the interpretation of chemical composition data sets, which has been applied to a comprehensive regional database for the first time.