ABSTRACT
Metals and Mining (Barbara Helwing)
Research into the archaeo-metallurgy of Elam allows for a looking-glass approach to the wider complex enmeshment of an area characterized by partly harmonious and partly competitive relations with its neighbours, upon whom it depended for raw material supply. Some of the most spectacular works of metal industry were excavated in Susa, while sites in Anshan rarely yielded relevant finds. Yet from the textual evidence it is obvious that the archaeological record remains strongly biased, a situation that is slowly beginning to change thanks to new analytical and field studies conducted in the last decades.
