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Lesson 9.10: Metalwork

Lesson 9 Bibliography: Middle Helladic Greece

S. Andreou and M. Vavelidis, “So Rich and Yet So Poor: Investigating the Scarcity of Gold Artefacts in Bronze Age Northern Greece,” in H. Meller, R. Risch, and E. Pernicka (eds.), Metalle der Macht: Frühes Gold und Silber (Halle 2014) 451-466

J. L. Fitton (ed.), The Aigina Treasure: Aegean Bronze Age Jewelry and a Mystery Revisited (London 2008).

C. Gates, “Iconography at the Crossroads: The Aegina Treasure,” in R. Laffineur (ed.), Transition. Le monde égéen du Bronze Moyen au Bronze Récent [Aegaeum 3] (Liège 1989) 215-225.

R. Higgins, “A Gold Diadem from Aegina,” JHS 107(1987) 182.

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, “Middle Helladic Metallurgy and Metalworking: Review of the Archaeological and Archaeometric Evidence from the Peloponnese,” in A. Philippa-Touchais, G. Touchais, S. Voutsaki, and J. Wright (eds.), MESOHELLADIKA: The Greek Mainland in the Middle Bronze Age [BCH Supplement 52] (Paris 2010) 701-711.

R. B. Koehl, “South Levantine Middle Bronze Age Gold-work in the Aegean,” in M. Andreadaki-Vlazaki (ed.), Pepragmena tou I Diethnous Kretologikou Synedriou (Chania 2011) A1: 189-208.

H. Mangou and P. V. Ioannou, “On the Chemical Composition of Prehistoric Greek Copper-based Artefacts from the Mainland Greece,” BSA 94(1999) 81-101.

B. Molloy, M. Wisniewski, F. Lynam, B. O’Neill, A. O’Sullivan, and A. Peatfield, “Tracing Edges: A Consideration of the Applications of 3D Modelling for Metalwork Wear Analysis on Bronze Age Bladed Artefacts,” JAS 76(2016) 79-87.

A. Philippa-Touchais and G. Touchais, “Glow in the ‘Dark’: A Gold Pendant from a Middle Helladic Settlement (Aspis, Argos),” in J. Driessen (ed.), RA-PI-NE-U: Studies on the Mycenaean World Offered to Robert Laffineur for his 70th Birthday [Aegis 10] (Louvain-la-Neuve 2016) 275-294.

J.-C. Poursat, “Les armes en Égée au Bronze Moyen: Quelques remarques,” in R. Laffineur (ed.), POLEMOS. Le contexte guerrier en Égée à l'Âge du Bronze [Aegaeum 19] (Liège/Austin 1999) 427-431.

C. Reinholdt, “Entwicklung und Typologie mittelbronzezeitlicher Lanzenspitzen mit Schäftungsschuh in Griechenland,” Mitteilungen der Berliner Gesellschaft für Anthropologie, Ethnologie und Urgeschichte 14(1993) 43-52.

D. N. Tripathi, Bronzework of Mainland Greece from c. 2600 B.C. to c. 1450 B.C. (Göteborg 1988).

H. Whittaker, “Religious Symbolism and the Use of Gold in Burial Contexts in the Late Middle Helladic and Early Mycenaean Periods,” SMEA 48(2006) 283-289.

E. Yiannouli, “Middle Helladic between Minoan and Mycenaean: On the Symbolic Meaning of Offensive Instruments,” in A. Philippa-Touchais, G. Touchais, S. Voutsaki, and J. Wright (eds.), MESOHELLADIKA: The Greek Mainland in the Middle Bronze Age [BCH Supplement 52] (Paris 2010) 497-507.


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