After a general review of man's first encounters with metallurgy in the Iranian
plateau, the first appearance of metallic objects is described briefly, emphasizing
the contribution of emission spectrographic method for their analysis.
The most probable evolutionary stages of the arts of metallurgy and ore
smelting are mentioned subsequently.
The centers of metallurgical discovery and the probable mining and smelting
sites in ancient Iran are studied in the fourth part.
A last section is devoted to a short review of metallurgical art in Achaemenian
period
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