Sarah Cox
Research Student, Faculty of Arts
Current Research
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Analysis of Copper Based Metalwork from Failaka Island, Kuwait
The specific aims of my PhD research are to:
- carry out compositional, metallurgical and lead isotope analyses of metalwork from Tell F6 on Failaka;
- reconstruct metal exchange systems in the Persian Gulf region (including S. Mesopotamia and SW Iran) in the early second millennium BC;
- investigate the techniques used to fabricate the artefacts recovered at Tell F6 and reconstruct the nature of metallurgical operations at the site; and
-analyse additional material from Al-Khidr site in conjunction with the Kuwaiti- Slovak Archaeological mission.
The project will add to the corpus of analyses from the region, improving understanding of metallurgical development, particularly deliberate alloys, and the metal trade. This study will dramatically expand the analytical database related to early 2nd millennium BC metal exchange systems in the Persian Gulf region and allow a fuller picture of the metal finds to be drawn.
My thesis will represent the largest analysis of 2ndmillennium BC Gulf metalwork to date and will therefore add considerable original knowledge to the field and will build upon work already published such as Weeks' Early Metallurgy in the Persian Gulf (2004) and Prange's 5000 Jahra Kupfer im Oman (2001), offering a new perspective on Gulf exchange routes of the period - a critical historical juncture in which the volume of metal exchange through the Gulf seems to have rapidly peaked and then just as rapidly disappeared.