TY - JOUR
T1 - Metal artefacts in Chalcolithic Cyprus
T2 - New data from Western Cyprus
AU - Düring, Bleda S.
AU - Klinkenberg, Victor
AU - Paraskeva, Charalambos
AU - Kassianidou, Vasiliki
AU - Souter, Ellon
AU - Croft, Paul
AU - Charalambous, Andreas
PY - 2018
Y1 - 2018
N2 - The origins of copper-based metallurgy on the island of Cyprus, which became the main supplier of the metal in the Late Bronze Age in the Mediterranean and whose name became associated with the metal, is relatively obscure. While metal extraction and metal artefacts became increasingly important in the broader Near East, early metallurgy on Cyprus remains poorly known, and it is often postulated that metals were of limited importance on the island prior to the Philia phase. Here we present a unique context from the Late Chalcolithic (ca. 2800-2400 BC) from the excavations at Chlorakas-Palloures that has considerable ramifications for this debate.
AB - The origins of copper-based metallurgy on the island of Cyprus, which became the main supplier of the metal in the Late Bronze Age in the Mediterranean and whose name became associated with the metal, is relatively obscure. While metal extraction and metal artefacts became increasingly important in the broader Near East, early metallurgy on Cyprus remains poorly known, and it is often postulated that metals were of limited importance on the island prior to the Philia phase. Here we present a unique context from the Late Chalcolithic (ca. 2800-2400 BC) from the excavations at Chlorakas-Palloures that has considerable ramifications for this debate.
KW - Chalcolithic Cyprus
KW - Chlorakas-Palloures
KW - Copper
KW - Early metallurgy
KW - Exchange networks
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85047131506&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.5281/zenodo.1069514
DO - 10.5281/zenodo.1069514
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85047131506
SN - 1108-9628
VL - 18
SP - 11
EP - 25
JO - Mediterranean Archaeology and Archaeometry
JF - Mediterranean Archaeology and Archaeometry
IS - 1
ER -