The use of tin and bronze in prehistoric southern Indian metallurgy


Autoria(s): Srinivasan, Sharada
Data(s)

01/07/1998

Resumo

The medieval icons of southern India are among the most acclaimed Indian artistic innovations, especially those of the Chola Tamil kingdom (9th–10th centuries), which is best known for the Hindu iconography of the Dance of Siva that captured the imagination of master sculptor Rodin.1 Apart from these prolific images, however, not much was known about southern Indian copperbased metallurgy. Hence, these often spectacular castings have been regarded as a sudden efflorescence, almost without precedent, of skilled metallurgy as contrasted with tin-rich China or southeast Asia, for instance, where a developed copper-bronze tradition has been better appreciated.

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http://eprints.iisc.ernet.in/19420/1/The_Use_of_Tin_and_Bronze.pdf

Srinivasan, Sharada (1998) The use of tin and bronze in prehistoric southern Indian metallurgy. In: JOM Journal of the Minerals, Metals and Materials Society, 50 (07). pp. 44-48.

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Springer

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http://www.springerlink.com/content/7tt025838165r440/

http://eprints.iisc.ernet.in/19420/

Palavras-Chave #Materials Engineering (formerly Metallurgy)
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Journal Article

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