halfalp
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Hi ! I would like to ask a question about an idea. The actual consensus about metallurgy its, that it was born in different places of the world but, everywhere linked with some kind of " farming civilization ? ". But if, early metallurgy, cold forging, or at least the metal was found by HG and work by sedentary people, was in fact born with hunter gatherers. I base my little idea of the fact that both Balkans and Caucasus, shows trade between sedentary farmers and obsidian, flint and others minerals finders whoes like in northern europe mesolithic people linked with hunter-gatherers. If we think rationnaly of the link between farming and metallurgy there is a total contradiction in the " way of thinking " of these two differents cultural entity. Do somebody knows some archeological sites where metallurgy seems to live without real farming society ? One of the archeological sites and natural region for wich a pattern like that can be accepted seems to be Caucasus and Maykop culture, but even before we see in Samara Culture and Khwalynsk a kind of proto-chalcolitic culture and proto-herding, that can be a consequence of trade between Steppe / Caucasus with Balkan / Transcaucasia.