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Lesson 4.10: Metalwork

Lesson 4 Bibliography: The Early Cycladic Period

Y. Bassiakos and O. Philaniotou, “Early Copper Production on Kythnos: Archaeological Evidence and Analytical Approaches to the Reconstruction of Metallurgical Process,” 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) 19-56.

Y. Bassiakos and Th. Tselios, “On the Cessation of Local Copper Production in the Aegean in the 2nd Millennium BC,” in V. Kassianidou and G. Papasavvas (eds.), Eastern Mediterranean Metallurgy and Metalwork in the Second Millennium BC: A Conference in Honor of James D. Muhly, Nicosia, 10th-11th October 2009 (Oxford 2012) 151-161.

S. Bonatsos, “Metallina evremata apo tes anaskaphes Palamariou,” in L. Parlama, M. D. Theochari, C. Romanou, and S. Bonatsos (eds.), O ochyromenos oikismos sto Palamari Skyrou: Diepistemonike synantese gia to ergo erevnas kai anadeixes (Athens 2015) 321-346.

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

M. Catapotis, “On the Spatial Organization of Copper Smelting Activities in the Southern Aegean during the Early Bronze Age,” 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) 207-223.

R. C. P. Doonan and P. M. Day, “Mixed Origins and the Origins of Mixing: Alloys and Provenance in the Early Bronze Age Aegean,” 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) 1-18.

J. L. Fitton and S. La Niece, “Esse Quam Videri: A Reconsideration of the Kythnos Hoard of Early Cycladic Tools,” AJA 93(1989) 31-39.

N. H. Gale, A. Papastamataki, Z. A. Stos-Gale, and K. Leonis, “Copper Sources and Copper Metallurgy in the Aegean Bronze Age,” in P. T. Craddock and M. J. Hughes (eds.), Proceedings of the Symposium on Early Furnace Technology [British Museum Occasional Paper 48] (London 1985) 81-102.

N. H. Gale and Z. A. Stos-Gale, “Cycladic Lead and Silver Metallurgy,” BSA 76(1981) 169-224.

N. H. Gale and Z. A. Stos-Gale, “Cycladic Metallurgy,” in J. A. MacGillivray and R. L. N. Barber (eds.), The Prehistoric Cyclades (Edinburgh 1984) 255-276.

N. H. Gale and Z. A. Stos-Gale, “Changing Patterns in Prehistoric Cycladic Metallurgy,” in N. Brodie, J. Doole, G. Gavalas, and C. Renfrew (eds.), ORIZON. A Colloquium on the Prehistory of the Cyclades (Cambridge 2008) 387-408.

N. H. Gale, Z. A. Stos-Gale, and J. L. Davis, “The Provenance of Lead Used at Ayia Irini, Keos,” Hesperia 53(1984) 389-406.

M. Georgakopoulou, “Examination of Copper Slags from the Early Bronze Age Site of Daskaleio-Kavos on the Island of Keros (Cyclades, Greece),” Institute of Archaeo-Metallurgical Studies 24(2004) 3-12.

M. Georgakopoulou, Technology and Organisation of Early Cycladic Metallurgy: Copper on Seriphos and Keros, Greece (Ph.D. dissertation, University College London 2005).

M. Georgakopoulou, “The Metallurgical Remains,” in C. Renfrew, C. Doumas, L. Marangou, and G. Gavalas (eds.), Keros, Dhaskalio Kavos: The Investigations of 1987-88 (Cambridge 2007) 380-401.

M. Georgakopoulou, “Metallurgical Activities within Early Cycladic Settlements: The Case of Daskalio-Kavos,” 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) 123-134.

M. Georgakopoulou, “Metal Artefacts and Metallurgy,” in C. Renfrew, O. Philaniotou, N. Brodie, G. Gavalas, and M. J. Boyd (eds.), The Sanctuary on Keros and the Origins of Aegean Ritual Practice: The Excavations of 2006-2008 I: The Settlement at Dhaskalio (Cambridge 2013) 667-692.

M. Georgakopoulou, “Mobility and Early Bronze Age Southern Aegean Metal Production,” in E. Kiriatzi and C. Knappett (eds.), Human Mobility and Technological Transfer in the Prehistoric Mediterranean (Cambridge 2016) 46-67.

M. Georgakopoulou, “Lead Isotope Analysis and Metal Production Models for the Bronze Age Aegean,” in Y. Bassiakos (ed.), Prehistoric Metal Production in the Aegean: Material Evidence and Analysis (Heidelberg, forthcoming)     .

M. Georgakopoulou, “Metal and Metallurgical Remains,” in C. Renfrew, M. Marthari, K. Dellaporta, M. J. Boyd, N. J. Brodie, G. Gavalas, J. Hilditch, and J. Wright (eds.), The Keros Island Survey (Cambridge, forthcoming)      .

M. Georgakopoulou, “Metal Production, Working and Consumption across the Sites at Dhaskalio and Kavos,” in C. Renfrew, O. Philaniotou, G. Gavalas, N. Brodie, and M. J. Boyd (eds.), The Sanctuary on Keros and the Origins of Aegean Ritual Practice: The Excavations of 2006-2008 III: The Marble Finds from Kavos and the Archaeology of Ritual (Cambridge 2018) 501-532.    .

M. Georgakopoulou and Y. Bassiakos, “Metallourgikes drasteriotetes kai chrese ton metallon sto Palamari,” in L. Parlama, M. D. Theochari, C. Romanou, and S. Bonatsos (eds.), O ochyromenos oikismos sto Palamari Skyrou: Diepistemonike synantese gia to ergo erevnas kai anadeixes (Athens 2015) 347-366.

M. Georgakopoulou, Y. Bassiakos, and O. Philaniotou, “Seriphos Surfaces: A Study of Copper Slag Heaps and Copper Sources in the Context of Early Bronze Age Aegean Metal Production,” Archaeometry 53(2011) 123-145.

H. Gropengiesser, “Siphnos, Kap Agios Sostis: Keramische prähistorische Zeugnisse aus dem Gruben- und Hüttenrevier I,” AM 101(1986) 1-39.

H. Gropengiesser, “Siphnos, Kap Agios Sostis: Keramische prähistorische Zeugnisse aus dem Gruben- und Hüttenrevier II,” AM 102(1987) 1-54.

O. Hadjianastasiou, “Semeioseis gia ten Kythno,” in L. G. Mendoni and A. J. Mazarakis Ainian (eds.), Kea - Kythnos. History and Archaeology (Athens 1998) 259-273.

O. Hadjianastasiou and J. A. MacGillivray, “An Early Bronze Age Copper Smelting Site on the Aegean Island of Kythnos, Part II: The Archaeological Evidence,” in J. E. Jones (ed.), Aspects of Ancient Mining and Metallurgy (Bangor 1988) 31-34.

L. Keskin, “Ring Idols of Bakla Tepe: The Distribution of This Type in Anatolia with Particular Reference to the Aegean and the Balkans,” in O. Menozzi, M. L. Di Marcio, and D. Fossataro (eds.), SOMA 2005. Proceedings of the IXth Symposium on Mediterranean [BAR-IS 1739] (Oxford 2008) 87-95.

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, “On the Chemical Composition of Prehistoric Copper-based Artifacts from the Aegean Region,” BSA 92(1997) 59-72. 

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.

C. Marangou, “Social Differentiation in the Early Bronze Age: Miniature Metal Vessels and Child Burials,” JMA 1(1991) 211-225.

V. McGeehan Liritzis, “Seafaring, Craft and Cultural Contact in the Aegean during the 3rd Millennium B.C.,” IJNA 17(1988) 237-256.

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 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 1997) 634-648.

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.

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).

C. Renfrew, “Cycladic Metallurgy and the Aegean Early Bronze Age,” AJA 71(1967) 1-20.

S. Sherratt, “The Archaeology of Metal Use in the Early Bronze Age Aegean: A Review,” 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) 245-263.

N. Ch. Stampolidis and P. Sotirakopoulou, “Early Cycladic Metallurgy,” in V. Sahoglou and P. Sotirakopoulou (eds.), Across the Cyclades and Western Anatolia during the 3rd Millennium BC (Istanbul 2011) 52-57.

Z. A. Stos-Gale, “Cycladic Copper Metallurgy,” in A. Hauptman, E. Pernicka, and G. A. Wagner (eds.), Old World Archaeometallurgy [Die Anschnitt, Beiheft 7] (Bochum 1989) 279-292.

S. Stos-Gale, “The Role of Kythnos and Other Cycladic Islands in the Origins of Early Minoan Metallurgy,” in L. G. Mendoni and A. J. Mazarakis Ainian (eds.), Kea - Kythnos. History and Archaeology (Athens 1998) 717-735.

Z. A. Stos-Gale, N. H. Gale, and G. R. Gilmore, “Early Bronze Age Trojan Metal Sources and Anatolians in the Cyclades,” OJA 3:3(1984) 23-43. 

Z. A. Stos-Gale, N. H. Gale, and A. Papastamataki, “An Early Bronze Age Copper Smelting Site on the Aegean Island of Kythnos, Part I: Scientific Evidence,” in J. E. Jones (ed.), Aspects of Ancient Mining and Metallurgy (Bangor 1988) 23-30.

G. A. Wagner and G. Weisgerber, Silber, Blei und Gold auf Sifnos: Prähistorische und antike Metallproduktion [Der Anschnitt, Beiheft 3] (Bochum 1985). 

J. M. Webb, D. Frankel, Z. A. Stos, and N. Gale, “Early Bronze Age Metal Trade in the Eastern Mediterranean. New Compositional and Lead Isotope Evidence from Cyprus,” OJA 25(2006) 261-288.


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