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Agia varvara-Almyras : an Iron Age copper smelting site in Cyprus / edited by Christina Peege in collaboration with Philippe Della Casa and Walter Fasnacht.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher: Summertown, Oxford : Archaeopress Publishing Ltd, 2018Description: 1 online resource (xii, 294 pages) : illustrations (black and white, and colour)Content type:
  • text
  • still image
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 1784918164
  • 9781784918163
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: No titleDDC classification:
  • 939.37 23
LOC classification:
  • DS54.3
Online resources:
Contents:
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.
Summary: 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. This title presents the results of a comprehensive post-excavation analysis of the stratigraphy (part I), also of the geology, metallurgical materials (furnaces, tuyeres), finds (pottery, furnace lining, stone tools), as well as a synthesis of the copper smelting technology at Agia Varvara-Almyras (part II). The excavation analysis not only focuses on pyrotechnical information from individual furnaces, but also provides a detailed study of the spatial organisation as well as of the living conditions on the smelting site.
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Previous edition issued in print: 2018.

Includes discography and index.

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. This title presents the results of a comprehensive post-excavation analysis of the stratigraphy (part I), also of the geology, metallurgical materials (furnaces, tuyeres), finds (pottery, furnace lining, stone tools), as well as a synthesis of the copper smelting technology at Agia Varvara-Almyras (part II). The excavation analysis not only focuses on pyrotechnical information from individual furnaces, but also provides a detailed study of the spatial organisation as well as of the living conditions on the smelting site.

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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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