Metallurgy In The Early Bronze Age Aegean

Author : Peter M. Day,Roger C. P. Doonan
Publisher : Oxbow Books Limited
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015069038621

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Metallurgy in the Early Bronze Age Aegean by Peter M. Day,Roger C. P. Doonan Pdf

Recently, our understanding of metals and metallurgy in the Early Bronze Age Aegean has been dominated by studies which focus on the circulation and provenance of metals. Over the last decade the study of early metallurgy in the Aegean has witnessed dramatic developments with ever earlier and more detailed evidence for metal production being discovered in the field. Paralleling these field studies are a wealth of new laboratory analyses relating to the material aspects of metal production. This diverse new data when coupled with recent theoretical approaches now allow for significant shifts in our understanding of this important aspect of Aegean prehistory. Since few studies of metallurgy have extended beyond typological analysis of artefacts, the circulation of raw materials and the detailing of technical processes, metallurgy in the Aegean Early Bronze Age was made a subject of discussion at the Sheffield Centre for Aegean Archaeology's Round Table. This volume contains fifteen papers which address aspects of mining smelting and artefact production from a range of theoretical perspectives. It represents the first publication of many of the key details from numerous newly discovered sites. Contributors include Yannis Bassiakos, Phillip Betancourt, Mihalis Catapotis, Peter M. Day, Nota Dimopoulou-Rethemiotaki, Roger Doonan, Myrto Georgakopoulou, Jim Muhly, Georgia Nakou, Olga Philaniotou-Hadjianastasiou, Sue Sherratt, Metaxia Tsipopoulou, Yiannis Papadatos and David E. Wilson.

Author : Keith Branigan
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 1974
Category : Crafts & Hobbies
ISBN : STANFORD:36105036236789

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Aegean Metalwork of the Early and Middle Bronze Age by Keith Branigan Pdf

Author : Iris Tzachili
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 345 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Aegean Sea Region
ISBN : 9609826105

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Aegean Metallurgy in the Bronze Age by Iris Tzachili Pdf

Author : Veronica McGeehan Liritzis
Publisher : Coronet Books
Page : 628 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Social Science
ISBN : UOM:39015037463398

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The Role and Development of Metallurgy in the Late Neolithic and Early Bronze Age of Greece by Veronica McGeehan Liritzis Pdf

Author : Philip P. Betancourt,Susan C. Ferrence
Publisher : INSTAP Academic Press
Page : 345 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2011-12-31
Category : History
ISBN : 9781623030247

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Metallurgy by Philip P. Betancourt,Susan C. Ferrence Pdf

Prof. James D. Muhly has enjoyed a distinguished career in the study of ancient history, archaeology, and metallurgy that includes an emeritus professorship at the University of Pennsylvania and a term as director of the American School of Classical Studies at Athens as well as receiving the Archaeological Institute of America's Pomerance Award for Scientific Contributions to Archaeology. In Muhly's honor, a total of 38 eminent scholars have contributed 30 articles that include topics on Bronze and Iron Age metallurgy around the Eastern Mediterranean in such places as Crete, the Cyclades, Cyprus, and Turkey.

Author : Veronica M. Liritzis
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 670 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 1987
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:165645317

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The role and development of metallurgy in the Late Neolithic and Early Bronze Age of Greece by Veronica M. Liritzis Pdf

Author : Philip P. Betancourt
Publisher : ASCSA
Page : 486 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : History
ISBN : 9780876615362

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The Chrysokamino Metallurgy Workshop and Its Territory by Philip P. Betancourt Pdf

This detailed report describes archaeological fieldwork conducted between 1995 and 1997 in rural northeast Crete. Excavations were made in two locations: a metallurgy workshop (abandoned in EM III) and a nearby rural habitation site, perhaps a farmhouse (used until LM III). An intensive survey of the vicinity revealed other activities in the area from the Early Neolithic onwards, and placed the sites in a micro-regional context. A publication of the Minoan farmhouse will appear subsequently, but this volume stands on its own as both an overview of the project and as a detailed study of the copper smelting workshop.

Author : Toby C. Wilkinson,Susan Sherratt
Publisher : Oxbow Books
Page : 225 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2023-03-23
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781789259629

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Circuits of Metal Value by Toby C. Wilkinson,Susan Sherratt Pdf

This volume explores the part played by different metals in use from the fourth millennium BC to the Early Iron Age, not only in the Aegean but also in the wider Old World. It addresses the divergent uses and roles of different metals, the interrelationships of these roles and the changing values that may have been accorded to them at different times and in different places by producers and consumers. Individually, the papers in the volume contemplate the particular properties of different metals and the various issues concerning their frequent under-representation in the archaeological (but not necessarily textual) record, and also point out comparative and diachronic perspectives that may have the ability to offer insights into their important roles in wider cultural and historical changes over a period of several millennia. After the Introduction and Chapter 1, which reflects on some of the parameters involved in the term ‘precious’ as applied to metals, the remaining six chapters cover the Aegean and the networks that link the Aegean with Italy, Cyprus and the Near East more generally, and south-east Anatolia and the Caucasus. Between them they discuss the beginnings of regular iron metallurgy, the uses of and attitudes to gold, silver and bronze and other copper-based alloys at various times between the fourth millennium BC and the Early Iron Age.

Author : Evgenil Nikolaevich Chernykh
Publisher : CUP Archive
Page : 370 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 1992-12-03
Category : History
ISBN : 0521252571

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Ancient Metallurgy in the USSR by Evgenil Nikolaevich Chernykh Pdf

One of the leading Soviet archaeologists describes the development of ancient mining and metallurgy in the northern half of Eurasia. While the first traces of metallurgical activity date from between the seventh and the sixth millennium BC, significant mining developed only in the fifth millennium BC, in the northern Balkans and Carpathians. Metal producing centres were in these northern 'barbarian peripheral' regions rather than in the Near East and Asia Minor, areas traditionally associated with early classical civilization. Professor Chernykh describes successive periods of metallurgical activity in different regions: the Carpatho-Balkan Metallurgical Province of the Copper Age: the Circumpontic of the Early and Middle Bronze Age: and the Eurasian, European Caucasian, Central Asian and Irano-Afghan of the Late Bronze Age. He provides detailed information about the different groups of copper and bronze artefacts, their chemical composition, and their dispersion in time and space. He analyses the international metallurgical trade and division of labour and, finally, the collapse of the sociocultural systems in these metallurgical centres in the first millennium BC.

Author : Suzanne M. M. Young
Publisher : British Archaeological Reports Oxford Limited
Page : 376 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Social Science
ISBN : UVA:X006094598

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Metals in Antiquity by Suzanne M. M. Young Pdf

Papers presented at a symposium Metals in Antiquity held in 1997 at Harvard University, which sought to explore the distribution of metals in the natural environment, and extractive metallurgy and fabrication processes, as well as the social context, use and deposition of artefacts.

Author : Evangelia Kiriatzi,Carl Knappett
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2021-04-08
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1316509044

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Human Mobility and Technological Transfer in the Prehistoric Mediterranean by Evangelia Kiriatzi,Carl Knappett Pdf

The diverse forms of regional connectivity in the ancient world have recently become an important focus for those interested in the deep history of globalisation. This volume represents a significant contribution to this new trend as it engages thematically with a wide range of connectivities in the later prehistory of the Mediterranean, from the later Neolithic of northern Greece to the Levantine Iron Age, and with diverse forms of materiality, from pottery and metal to stone and glass. With theoretical overviews from leading thinkers in prehistoric mobilities, and commentaries from top specialists in neighbouring domains, the volume integrates detailed case studies within a comparative framework. The result is a thorough treatment of many of the key issues of regional interaction and technological diversity facing archaeologists working across diverse places and periods. As this book presents key case studies for human and technological mobility across the eastern Mediterranean in later prehistory, it will be of interest primarily to Mediterranean archaeologists, though also to historians and anthropologists.

Author : Eric H. Cline
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 976 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2012-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780190240752

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The Oxford Handbook of the Bronze Age Aegean by Eric H. Cline Pdf

The Greek Bronze Age, roughly 3000 to 1000 BCE, witnessed the flourishing of the Minoan and Mycenean civilizations, the earliest expansion of trade in the Aegean and wider Mediterranean Sea, the development of artistic techniques in a variety of media, and the evolution of early Greek religious practices and mythology. The period also witnessed a violent conflict in Asia Minor between warring peoples in the region, a conflict commonly believed to be the historical basis for Homer's Trojan War. The Oxford Handbook of the Bronze Age Aegean provides a detailed survey of these fascinating aspects of the period, and many others, in sixty-six newly commissioned articles. Divided into four sections, the handbook begins with Background and Definitions, which contains articles establishing the discipline in its historical, geographical, and chronological settings and in its relation to other disciplines. The second section, Chronology and Geography, contains articles examining the Bronze Age Aegean by chronological period (Early Bronze Age, Middle Bronze Age, Late Bronze Age). Each of the periods are further subdivided geographically, so that individual articles are concerned with Mainland Greece during the Early Bronze Age, Crete during the Early Bronze Age, the Cycladic Islands during the Early Bronze Age, and the same for the Middle Bronze Age, followed by the Late Bronze Age. The third section, Thematic and Specific Topics, includes articles examining thematic topics that cannot be done justice in a strictly chronological/geographical treatment, including religion, state and society, trade, warfare, pottery, writing, and burial customs, as well as specific events, such as the eruption of Santorini and the Trojan War. The fourth section, Specific Sites and Areas, contains articles examining the most important regions and sites in the Bronze Age Aegean, including Mycenae, Tiryns, Pylos, Knossos, Kommos, Rhodes, the northern Aegean, and the Uluburun shipwreck, as well as adjacent areas such as the Levant, Egypt, and the western Mediterranean. Containing new work by an international team of experts, The Oxford Handbook of the Bronze Age Aegean represents the most comprehensive, authoritative, and up-to-date single-volume survey of the field. It will be indispensable for scholars and advanced students alike.

Author : Lloyd Weeks
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 267 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2022-08-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9789004495449

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Early Metallurgy of the Persian Gulf by Lloyd Weeks Pdf

This volume examines the earliest production and exchange of copper and its alloys in the Persian Gulf, a major metal supply route for the Bronze Age societies of Western Asia. Weeks addresses the geological and technological background to copper production in southeastern Arabia and contextualizes evidence for major fluctuations in prehistoric copper production. The core of the volume contists of compositional and isotopic analyses. The relationship between specialized copper production, exchange, and the development of social complexity in early Arabia is examined, and the author addresses the broader archaeological issue of the Bronze Age tin trade, which linked vast areas of Western Asia, from the Indo-Iranian borderlands to the Aegean, in the third millennium BC.

Author : Iris Tzachili
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 345 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Aegean Sea Region
ISBN : 9608839459

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Aegean Metallurgy in the Bronze Age by Iris Tzachili Pdf

Author : Günther A. Wagner,Ernst Pernicka,Hans-Peter Uerpmann
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 453 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2013-03-09
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9783662053089

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Troia and the Troad by Günther A. Wagner,Ernst Pernicka,Hans-Peter Uerpmann Pdf

It is my pleasure to welcome you here on the occasion of the International Symposium, "Landscape Troia between Earth History and Culture". The topic Troia has stimulated many scientists, historians and experts in the history of arts to interpret data and adjust concepts regarding the de velopment of early Troia. In the past two decades the Heidelberg Academy of Sciences and Humanities has supported several research activities which are related to the Troia project. One of the aims of the archaeometry laboratory is to localize Aegean and Anatolian sources for the procurement of prehistoric metals such as gold, silver, lead, copper and tin. In particular in the Troad, numerous mining and smelting sites have been found and characterized, allowing one to investigate to which extent they might have been exploited by the acient Troians. When analytically comparing ores and slags with Troian metal artifacts, early trade connections can be traced. The landscape around Troia underwent rather fast and drastic changes.