Look around the room and count the number of objects made out of metal. Now take another look and spot the objects that were possibly made by metal machines or transported by metal means of transportation. Almost every man made object in today's society has at one point in its manufacturing depended on the utilizing of a metal. In part, the usages of metal has innovated over recent years, but many techniques and processes are hundreds if not thousands of years old. From the Copper Age (4000 - 3000 B.C.E.), to the Bronze Age (3000 - 1000 B. C.), and Iron Age (1000 B.C.E. to the present), and from ancient China, to early Egypt, to Central America (Mesoamerica), metallurgy has been invented and reinvented numerous times. Effects of the popularity of metallurgy were the growing of societies, influences on cultures, routes of trade, advances in technology, strengthening of economic structures, and much more.
So what exactly is metallurgy?
Metallurgy is the science that deals with procedures used in extracting metals from their ores, purifying and alloying metals, and creating useful objects from metals. (http://www.thefreedictionary.com/metallurgical)
Metallurgy is the science that deals with procedures used in extracting metals from their ores, purifying and alloying metals, and creating useful objects from metals. (http://www.thefreedictionary.com/metallurgical)