New finds from SE Anatolia suggest that at Gre Fılla, #Diyarbakir, Neolithic hunter-gatherers experimented with copper #metallurgy ... 9,000 years ago!
Yes, that's the Pre-Poettery Neolithic we're talking about:
#Journals|We’re excited to announce that Prof. Lifeng Zhang, President of North China University of Technology, joins Metallurgical Research & Technology as co-Editor-in-Chief! His expertise in metallurgy will bring valuable insights and help guide the journal’s future.