Agia varvara-Almyras : an Iron Age copper smelting site in Cyprus /

The Iron Age copper smelting site situated near the Cypriot village Agia Varvara is of particular importance among the ancient copper processing places in the Near East because it has revealed spatial as well as technological aspects of copper production in a hitherto rarely-seen depth of detail. Th...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Peege, Christina (Editor ), Della Casa, Philippe (Editor ), Fasnacht, Walter (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Summertown, Oxford : Archaeopress Publishing Ltd, 2018.
Temas:
To 1500
Excavations (Archaeology) > Cyprus.
Copper smelting > Cyprus > History > To 1500.
Iron age > Cyprus.
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Archaeology
Antiquities
Copper smelting
Excavations (Archaeology)
Iron age
Cyprus > Antiquities.
Chypre > Antiquités.
Cyprus
History
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Foreword: Agia Varvara-Almyras, an Exceptional Case Study ; Part I
  • Archaeological Situation, Stratigraphy, and Chronology ; 1. Introduction ; 2. Extractive Copper Metallurgy in Cyprus: A Concise Retrospective on Methods and Approaches ; 3. Archaeological Research in Agia Varvara-Almyras ; 4. Stratigraphy ; 5. Age Determination ; 6. The Features ; 7. Spatial Organization ; 8. Conclusions and Outlook ; 9. Lists ; Part II
  • Materials and Processes ; 1. Geology and Mineralogy of Agia Varvara-Almyras
  • Iphigenia Gavriel ; 2. Agia Varvara-Almyras Ceramics Report
  • Robert Morris ; 3. Classification of Ore Beneficiation Stone Tools from Agia Varvara-Almyras
  • Anne Carey ; 4. Furnace Lining
  • Aleksandra Mistireki ; 5. Considerations on the Process Flow of Copper Production
  • Walter Fasnacht ; 6. Technology of Copper Smelting at Agia Varvara-Almyras
  • Martina Renzi, Myrto Georgakopoulou, Christina Peege, Walter Fasnacht and Thilo Rehren.

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