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Myth, ritual, and metallurgy in ancient Greece and recent Africa by Sandra Blakely. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 2006, 250x175mm, xiv+328pp, 27 fi gs, index, ISBN 0521855004, £50 (US$90), h/b.

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Review Article: Myth, ritual and metallurgy: Myth, ritual, and metallurgy in ancient Greece and recent Africa by Sandra Blakely. (2021). Historical Metallurgy, 41(2), 148-152. https://www.hmsjournal.org/index.php/home/article/view/216
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Review Article: Myth, ritual and metallurgy: Myth, ritual, and metallurgy in ancient Greece and recent Africa by Sandra Blakely. (2021). Historical Metallurgy, 41(2), 148-152. https://www.hmsjournal.org/index.php/home/article/view/216