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Lesson 6.10: Metalwork

Lesson 6 Bibliography: The Early Minoan Period: The Tombs

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

K. Branigan, Aegean Metalwork of the Early and Middle Bronze Age (Oxford 1974).

S. C. Ferrence, J. D. Muhly, and P. P. Betancourt, “Affluence in Eastern Crete: Metal Objects from the Cemetery of Petras,” in M. Tsipopoulou (ed.), Petras, Siteia: 25 Years of Excavations and Studies [Monographs of the Danish Institute at Athens 16] (Athens 2012) 133-144.

C. E. Galanaki, “Metal Objects from the Early Minoan IB Cemetery: Jewelry and Implements,” in C. E. Galanaki, Gournes, Pediada. A Minoan Cemetery in Crete [Prehistory Monographs 63] (Philadelphia 2021) 153-160.

B. Legarra Herrero, “About the Distribution of Metal Objects in Prepalatial Crete,” Papers of the Institute of Archaeology 15(2004) 29-51.

B. Legarra Herrero, “The Role of Gold in South Aegean Exchange Networks (3100-1800 BC),” in H. Meller, R. Risch, and E. Pernicka (eds.), Metalle der Macht: Frühes Gold und Silber (Halle 2014) 467-482

H. Mangou and P. V. Ioannou, “On the Chemical Composition of Prehistoric Greek Copper-based Artefacts from Crete,” BSA 93(1998) 91-102.

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. D. Muhly, “Ayia Photia and the Cycladic Element in Early Minoan Metallurgy,” in I. Tzachili (ed.), Aegean Metallurgy in the Bronze Age (Athens 2008) 69-74.

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

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.

Z. A. Stos-Gale, “The Origin of Metal Used for Making Weapons in Early and Middle Minoan Crete,” in C. Scarre and F. Healy (eds.), Trade and Exchange in Prehistoric Europe (Oxford 1993) 115-129.

A. Vasilakis, O chrysos kai o argyros sten Krete kata ten Proïme Periodo tou Chalkou (Heraklion 1996). 


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