49256
Accession Number
6130
Title Of Article Chaper
The oxhide ingots from Enkomi and Mathatiti and Late Bronze Age copper smelting in Cyprus
Title Of Journal Book
Report of the Department of Antiquities in Cyprus 1980
Pages
84-101
Reference Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references
Language Of Text
English
Literature Type
Monograph
Literature Level
Analytic
Abstract
In spite of much scholarly concentration on Bronze Age copper production in Cyprus, several questions crucial to a coherent reconstruction of Cypriote metalworking remains unanswered. Two different reconstructions of smelting technology are proposed.
Keywords
metallurgy;ancient;bronze;age;copper
pub_id
49256