The high–temperature exposure implied that the ancient people exercised a level ... with the earliest evidence of copper smelting coming from Yumuktepe in Anatolia, dated to approximately ...

Thus far, the earliest evidence of smelting comes from the Anatolian ... To read about Cypriot merchants who controlled the lucrative ancient copper trade, go to "In the Time of the Copper Kings." ...

The presence of such waste would provide the smoking gun for copper smelting among this group of ancient Anatolian hunter-gatherers, yet its absence leaves the study authors wary of making any ...

Mes Aynak’s landscape is completely deforested today, and it’s possible that ancient copper smelting played a role in the area’s denuding—which in turn may have ended copper production.