Topic summary
Metallurgical

Extracted from the Wikipedia article Metallurgy.
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- ^ number of gold decorations and ornaments. Metallurgical revolution and CBMP formation emerged independently from centers of the Proto-Metal area [in the Middle East] where in the 5th millennium BCE there continued a limited production of primitive handmade copper goods. — Chernykh (2014)
- ^ The earliest evidence for metallurgy in Africa comes from the Nile Delta, in Egypt, and is associated with the Maadi culture dating between 4,000 ~ 3,200 BCE. — Chirikure (2015), pp. 17, 19