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Metallurgy: Understanding How, Learning Why: Studies in Honor of James D. Muhly(29 Prehistory Monographs)

Metallurgy: Understanding How, Learning Why: Studies in Honor of James D. Muhly(29 Prehistory Monographs)

          
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Prof. James D. Muhly has enjoyed a distinguished career in the study of ancient history, archaeology, and metallurgy that includes an emeritus professorship at the University of Pennsylvania and a term as director of the American School of Classical Studies at Athens as well as receiving the Archaeological Institute of America's Pomerance Award for Scientific Contributions to Archaeology. In Muhly's honor, a total of 38 eminent scholars have contributed 30 articles that include topics on Bronze and Iron Age metallurgy around the Eastern Mediterranean in such places as Crete, the Cyclades, Cyprus, and Turkey.

Table of Contents:
Life with Jim Muhly, Polymnia Muhly Bibliography of James D. Muhly Introduction, Philip P. Betancourt and Susan C. Ferrence 1. Cypriot Chalcolithic Metalwork, Edgar Peltenburg 2. Miniature Ingots from Cyprus, Alessandra Giumlia-Mair, Vasiliki Kassianidou, and George Papasavvas 3. Broken Symbols: Aspects of Metallurgy at Alassa, Sophocles Hadjisavvas 4. A Metallurgical Feast? Vassos Karageorghis 5. Blowing the Wind of Change: The Introduction of Bellows in Late Bronze Age Cyprus, Vasiliki Kassianidou 6. A Newly Re-discovered Cypriot Tripod-stand in the Florence Archaeological Museum, Fulvia Lo Schiavo 7. From Smiting into Smithing: The Transformation of a Cypriot God, George Papasavvas 8. Reconstructing Early Cretan Metallurgy: Analytical Results from the Study of the Metallurgical Evidence from Kephala Petras, Siteia, Mihalis Catapotis, Yannis Bassiakos, and Yiannis Papadatos 9. Silver and Bronze Artifacts from the EM I Necropolis at Gournes, Pediada, Kalliope E. Galanaki and Yannis Bassiakos 10. The Dog Diadem from Mochlos, Jane Hickman 11. The Triangular "Daggers" of Prepalatial Crete, Keith Branigan 12. A Marine Style Gold Ring from the Hagios Charalambos Ossuary: Symbolic Use of Cockle Shells in Minoan Crete? Philip P. Betancourt 13. Metalworking at Malia, Quartier MU: High or Low Technology? Jean-Claude Poursat and Cécile Oberweiler 14. The Origins of the Mochlos Sistrum, Jeffrey S. Soles 15. Akrotiraki and Skali: A Preliminary Report on New Evidence for EBA Lead/Silver and Copper Production from Southern Siphnos, Zozi D. Papadopoulou 16. Early Bronze Age Copper Smelting on Seriphos (Cyclades, Greece), Olga Philaniotou, Yannis Bassiakos, and Myrto Georgakopoulou 17. Searching for the Early Bronze Age Aegean Metallurgist's Toolkit, Christos G. Doumas 18. Technological Aspects of Bronze Age Metallurgical Ceramics in the Eastern Mediterranean, Anno Hein and Vassilis Kilikoglou 19. Slags from the Late Bronze Age Metal Workshops at Kition and Enkomi, Cyprus, Andreas Hauptmann 20. The Metallurgy of Iron during the Early Years of the Iron Age, Robert Maddin 21. Copper Oxhide Ingots and Lead Isotope Provenancing, Noël H. Gale 22. "Biscuits with Ears:" A Search for the Origin of the Earliest Oxhide Ingots, Zofia Anna Stos-Gale 23. Metal Exchange in Italy from the Middle to the Final Bronze Age (14th-11th century B.C.E.), Reinhard Jung, Mathias Mehofer, and Ernst Pernicka 24. Cyprus, Copper, and Alashiya, A. Bernard Knapp 25. Alashiya: A Scientific Quest for its Location, Robert S. Merrillees 26. Hittite Metals at the Frontier: A Three-Spiked Battle Ax from Alalakh, K. Aslihan Yener 27. Sources of Tin and the Tin Trade in Southwest Asia: Recent Research and Its Relevance to Current Understanding, Vincent C. Pigott 28. Three Copper Oxhide Ingots in Sanliurfa Archaeology Museum, Turkey, Cemal Pulak


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  • ISBN-13: 9781931534574
  • Publisher: INSTAP Academic Press
  • Publisher Imprint: INSTAP Academic Press
  • Depth: 25
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: N
  • Spine Width: 20 mm
  • Weight: 1414 gr
  • ISBN-10: 1931534578
  • Publisher Date: 31 Dec 2011
  • Binding: Hardback
  • Height: 284 mm
  • No of Pages: 344
  • Series Title: 29 Prehistory Monographs
  • Sub Title: Understanding How, Learning Why: Studies in Honor of James D. Muhly
  • Width: 224 mm


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