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The proceedings of BUMA VII held in 2009 in Bangalore as part of the renowned international conference series on the 'Beginnings of the Use of Metals and Alloys',are published as an edited volume entitled "Metals and Civilizations'. With twenty eight valuable peer-reviewed papers covering inter-disciplinary research, it widens our knowledge of the use of metals in antiquity and several aspects of the archaeology, archaeometallurgy, historical metallurgy, crafts practices and metallurgical heritage of many Asian and some non-Asian countries.
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