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ON more than one occasion attention has been directed to the work of the British Association Research Committee which is investigating the sources of Early Sumerian copper. The interim report which was presented at the recent Glasgow meeting of the Association is of exceptional interest, It embodies a report by Prof. C. H. Desch which would appear to point to a possible source from which copper reached Mesopotamia in early times. It is scarcely necessary to say that the quantity of copper and bronze objects found is one of the not least remarkable features of recent excavations on early sites in Sumeria. It has almost revolutionised our conception of the early stages in the growth of civilisation.
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Copper in Antiquity. Nature 122, 886 (1928). https://doi.org/10.1038/122886a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/122886a0