ABSTRACT
This dissertation abstract has been edited to omit references to structural and organizational features of the dissertation. The summary of Dr. Terekhova’s review of the technical literature also was deleted. [For additional studies of early Central Asian and East European metals, including the results of technical analyses, see E. E. Kuz’mina, Metallicheskie izdelia eneolita i bronzogo veka v Srednei Azii, SAI, B4–9, Moscow, 1966; E. N. Chernikh, “Nekotorye rezul’taty izucheniia metalla anauskoi kul’tury,” KSIA, no. 91, 1962; N. V. Rindina, Drevneishee metalloobrabativaiushchee proizvodstvo Vostochnoi Evropy, Moscow, 1971; and, particularly, N. N. Terekhova, “Metallobrabativaiushchee proizvodstvo u drevneishikh zemledel’tsev Turkmenii,” in Qcherki tekhnologii drevneishikh proizvodstv, ed. by B. A. Kolchin, Moscow 1975.])
