Anatolia: the cradle of castings.It's a well-documented fact that metalcasting is an ancient art that has played a pivotal role in developing societies throughout time. Often, metalcasting is thought to have been integral for only the last 3,000-4,000 yrs., when, in fact, the history of metalcasting can be traced back much further to Anatolia. The land is a peninsula that lies between the Black and Mediterranean seas. Known as Asia Minor Asia Minor, great peninsula, c.250,000 sq mi (647,500 sq km), extreme W Asia, generally coterminous with Asian Turkey, also called Anatolia. It is washed by the Black Sea in the north, the Mediterranean Sea in the south, and the Aegean Sea in the west. by the Romans, it is the Asian part of modern-day Turkey. It lies across the Aegean Sea Aegean Sea, Gr. Aigaion Pelagos, Turkish Ege Denizi, arm of the Mediterranean Sea, c.400 mi (640 km) long and 200 mi (320 km) wide, off SE Europe between Greece and Turkey; Crete and Rhodes mark its southern limit. to the east of Greece and is usually known by its Greek name Greek given names can be derived from the Greco-Roman gods, or may have other meanings. Some may be derived from the New Testament and early Christian traditions. Some of the names are often, but not always, anglicised. , Anatolia, meaning "The Land of Sunrise." Archaeologists have recovered evidence that suggests the Anatolian people discovered metals in 10,000 B.C. Rich B.C. Rich is a manufacturer of guitars and bass guitars. They are known for their unusual and somewhat threatening body shapes, earning widespread popularity among various heavy metal players in the 1980s to the present. Currently, most B.C. deposits of arsenic, zinc, lead, silver, gold and especially copper were discovered and exploited by the Anatolian people. In time, they learned to alloy metals with each other and, from the results of trial and error experiments passed from generation to generation, began the process of metalcasting. Metalcasting was born shortly after the Anatolians began bringing colored minerals and stones into their settlements and shaping them into tools. Eventually, they realized that copper, which was abundant in their land, also could be shaped in this way. In working with copper, they discovered that when it was cold, it would crack and crumble, but when heated, its elasticity increased, allowing it to be reworked. It has been discovered that during the early Bronze Age Bronze Age, period in the development of technology when metals were first used regularly in the manufacture of tools and weapons. Pure copper and bronze, an alloy of copper and tin, were used indiscriminately at first; this early period is sometimes called the (2,000-l,000 B.C.), castings were produced in both open and closed molds. Evidence also suggests the Anatolians employed the use of investment casting investment casting Precision casting for forming metal shapes with minutely precise details. Casting bronze or precious metals typically involves several steps, including forming a mold around the sculptured form; detaching the mold (in two or more sections); coating its . To produce these castings, the object was shaped with clay or wax and was covered with a second clay layer or immersed in sand to produce the mold. Molten metal was then poured into the cavity. Stone master models also are known to have been used for the production of large metal objects. The findings in Anatolia include a wide range of items, such as simple ornaments, tools, advanced weapons, artifacts artifacts see specimen artifacts. reflecting religious beliefs, statues and luxury goods reflecting their tastes. Information for this article was taken from "Anatolia: The Cradle of Castings," a book published for the 66th World Castings Congress, Istanbul, 2004. |
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