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Lesson 3.7: Central and Southern Greece: Metalwork

Lesson 3 Bibliography: The Eutresis and Korakou Cultures of Early Helladic I-II

N. Amzallag, “From Metallurgy to Bronze Age Civilizations: The Synthetic Theory,” AJA 113(2009) 497-519.

N. Amzallag, “A Return to the Dark Ages? Reply to Thornton et al. 2010,” AJA 114(2010) 317-329.

K. Branigan, “Early Aegean Hoards of Metalwork,” BSA 64(1969) 1-11.

V. G. Childe, “A Gold Vase of Early Helladic Type,” JHS 44(1924) 163-165.

N. H. Gale, M. Kayafa, and Z. A. Stos-Gale, “Early Helladic Metallurgy at Raphina, Attica, and the Role of Lavrion,” in I. Tzachili (ed.), Aegean Metallurgy in the Bronze Age (Athens 2008) 87-104.

O. Kakavogianni, “An EH I Metallurgy Workshop of Silver in Lambrika, Attica (Koropi),” Archaiologia 94(2005) 45-48 [English title of article in modern Greek].

O. Kakavogianni, K. Douni, and F. Nezeri, “Silver Metallurgical Finds Dating from the End of the Final Neolithic Period until the Middle Bronze Age in the Area of the Mesogeia,” in I. Tzachili (ed.), Aegean Metallurgy in the Bronze Age (Athens 2008) 45-57.

M. Kayafa, Bronze Age Metallurgy in the Peloponnese, Greece (Ph.D. dissertation, University of Birmingham 1999).

M. Kayafa, “Copper-based Artifacts in the Bronze Age Peloponnese: A Quantitative Approach to Metal Consumption,” in I. Tzachili (ed.), Aegean Metallurgy in the Bronze Age (Athens 2008) 211-223.

M. Kayafa, S. Stos-Gale, and N. Gale, “The Circulation of Copper in the Early Bronze Age in Mainland Greece: The Lead Isotope Evidence from Lerna, Lithares and Tsoungiza,” in C. F. E. Pare (ed.), Metals Make the World Go Round. The Supply and Circulation of Metals in Bronze Age Europe (Oxford 2000) 39-55.

I. Kilian-Dirlmeier, Nadeln der frühhelladischen bis archaischen Zeit von der Peloponnes (Munich 1984).

R. Laffineur, “Aspects of Early Bronze Age Jewellery in the Aegean,” in H. Erkanal, H. Hauptmann, V. Sahoglou, and R. Tuncel (eds.), The Aegean in the Neolithic, Chalcolithic and the Early Bronze Age (Ankara 2008) 323-332.

H. Mangou and P. V. Ioannou, “Trends in the Making of Copper-based Artefacts during the Prehistoric Period (4000-1050 B.C.),” Opuscula Atheniensia 27(2002) 105-118.

J. Maran, “Attica and the Origins of Silver Metallurgy in the Aegean and the Carpatho-Balkan Zone,” in K. Kalogeropoulos, D. Vassilikou, and M. Tiverios (eds.), Sidelights on Greek Antiquity: Archaeological and Epigraphic Essays in Honour of Vasileios Petrakos (Berlin 2021) 197-225.

V. McGeehan-Liritzis, The Role and Development of Metallurgy in the Late Neolithic and Early Bronze Age of Greece [SIMA-PB 122] (Jonsered 1996).

V. McGeehan-Liritzis and N. H. Gale, “Chemical and Lead Isotope Analysis of Greek Late Neolithic and Early Bronze Age Metals,” Archaeometry 30(1988) 199-225.

V. McGeehan-Liritzis and J. W. Taylor, “Yugoslavian Tin Deposits and the Early Bronze Age Industries of the Aegean Region,” OJA 6(1987) 287-300.

G. Nakou, “The Cutting Edge: A New Look at Early Aegean Metallurgy,” JMA 8:2(1995) 1-32.

G. Nakou, “The Role of Poliochni and the North Aegean in the Development of Aegean Metallurgy,” in C. G. Doumas and V. La Rosa (eds.), E Poliochne kai e Proïme Epoche tou Chalkou sto Boreio Aigaio (Athens 1999) 49-62.

G. Nakou, “Metalwork, Basketry and Pottery in the Aegean Early Bronze Age,” in A. Serghidou (ed.), DOREMA: A Tribute to the A. G. Leventis Foundation on the Occasion of its 20th Anniversary (Nicosia 2000) 27-57.

G. Nakou, “Absent Presences: Metal Vessels in the Aegean at the End of the Third Millennium,” in P. M. Day and R. C. P. Doonan (eds.), Metallurgy in the Early Bronze Age Aegean [Sheffield Studies in Aegean Archaeology 7] (Oxford 2007) 224-244.

G. Papadimitriou, “The Technological Evolution of Copper Alloys in the Aegean during the Prehistoric Period,” in I. Tzachili (ed.), Aegean Metallurgy in the Bronze Age (Athens 2008) 271-287.

D. J. Pullen, “Early Aegean Daggers: An Example from Tsoungiza, Ancient Nemea,” in P. P. Betancourt, V. Karageorghis, R. Laffineur, and W.-D. Niemeier (eds.), MELETEMATA: Studies in Aegean Archaeology Presented to Malcolm H. Wiener as He Enters His 65th Year [Aegaeum 20] (Liège/Austin 1999) 693-697.

L. C. Reeves, Aegean and Anatolian Bronze Age Metal Vessels: A Social Perspective (Ph.D. dissertation, University College London 2003).

C. Reinholdt, “Der Thyreatis-Hortfund in Berlin: Untersuchungen zum vormykenischen Edelmetallschmuck in Griechenland,” JdI 108(1993) 1-41.

C. Reinholdt, Der frühbronzezeitliche Schmuckhortfund von Kap Kolonna: Ägina und die Ägäis im Goldzeitalter des 3.Jahrtausends v. Chr. [Ägina-Kolonna, Forschungen und Ergebnisse II] (Vienna 2008).

Z. Stos-Gale, A. Sampson, and E. Mangou, “Analysis of Metal Artifacts from the Early Helladic Cemetery of Manika on Euboea,” Aegean Archaeology 3(1996) 49-62.

C. P. Thornton, J. M. Golden, D. J. Killick, V. C. Pigott, T. H. Rehren, and B. W. Robers, “A Chalcolithic Error: Rebuttal to Amzallag 2009,” AJA 114(2010) 305-315.

S. S. Weinberg, “A Gold Sauceboat in the Israel Museum,” AK 12 (1969) 3-8.

M. H. Wiener, “Helladic Pairs of Cups,” in R. B. Koehl (ed.), Studies in Aegean Art and Culture: A New York Aegean Bronze Age Colloquium in Memory of Ellen N. Davis (Philadelphia 2016) 11-26.


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