Agia varvara-Almyras : an Iron Age copper smelting site in Cyprus /: an Iron Age copper smelting site in Cyprus. (2018)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Edited by Christina Peege in collaboration with Philippe Della Casa and Walter Fasnacht.
• Editors: Peege, Christina; Fasnacht, Walter; Della Casa, Philippe
• 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.
• Publisher Details: Summertown, Oxford : Archaeopress Publishing Ltd
• Publication Date: 2018
• Extent: 1 online resource (xii, 294 pages), illustrations (black and white, and colour)
• Subjects: 939.37; Excavations (Archaeology) -- Cyprus; Copper smelting -- Cyprus -- History -- To 1500; Iron age -- Cyprus; Cyprus -- Antiquities
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781784918163
• Notes: Note: Includes discography and index.; Note: Description based on online resource; title from home page (viewed on October 4, 2018).
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