What was the first metal humans used? What did the first metals have in common? What metal promoted the first intercontinental trade? How did this lead to the first civilizations? How did its replacement ushered a radically new world?
Great reading, Tomas. Allow an ad-commentary: Interestingly, group-11 metals were the first ones to be brought into the form of thin patterned nanolayers following inkjet printing of metal-organic molecules and the thermally or photonically induced decomposition, yet in the series Ag-Au-Cu. I gave a plenary talk at MRS Fall Meeting 2010 in Boston on that, see also our monography Inkjet Printing of Group-11 Metal Structures (2015)
Very, very interesting. I didn't realise the Bronze Age lasted for roughly 2K years before Iron came on the scene.
Maybe AI will make it cheap enough to be able to feed bronze-age stories into it so that I can watch a documentary about that era, as the movie studios don't seem to go anywhere beyond Troy, I think.
Great reading, Tomas. Allow an ad-commentary: Interestingly, group-11 metals were the first ones to be brought into the form of thin patterned nanolayers following inkjet printing of metal-organic molecules and the thermally or photonically induced decomposition, yet in the series Ag-Au-Cu. I gave a plenary talk at MRS Fall Meeting 2010 in Boston on that, see also our monography Inkjet Printing of Group-11 Metal Structures (2015)
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/310843211_Inkjet_Printing_of_Group-11_Metal_Structures
Very, very interesting. I didn't realise the Bronze Age lasted for roughly 2K years before Iron came on the scene.
Maybe AI will make it cheap enough to be able to feed bronze-age stories into it so that I can watch a documentary about that era, as the movie studios don't seem to go anywhere beyond Troy, I think.
Great history!