The Chrysokamino Metallurgy Workshop and Its Territory
Author: Philip P. Betancourt
Publisher: ASCSA
Published: 2006
Total Pages: 486
ISBN-13: 0876615361
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis detailed report describes archaeological fieldwork conducted between 1995 and 1997 in rural northeast Crete. Excavations were made in two locations: a metallurgy workshop (abandoned in EM III) and a nearby rural habitation site, perhaps a farmhouse (used until LM III). An intensive survey of the vicinity revealed other activities in the area from the Early Neolithic onwards, and placed the sites in a micro-regional context. A publication of the Minoan farmhouse will appear subsequently, but this volume stands on its own as both an overview of the project and as a detailed study of the copper smelting workshop.