This review synthesizes field research, textual analysis, and archaeometric data to evaluate
different explanations for the spread of iron in the ancient Near East. Current evidence …

Current views of Cyprus during the Middle Bronze Age (or Middle Cypriot period) depict an
island largely isolated from the wider eastern Mediterranean world and comprised largely if …

The exploitation of Cyprus's mineral wealth, mainly the copper deposits, and other natural
resources, such as the forests, formed the basis of the island's economic prosperity and …

A keen interest in copper oxhide ingots began in the 1950s (Buchholz 1959), and was
fueled in the 1960s and 1980s by the excavations of the Cape Gelidonya and the Uluburun …

Archaeological underwater investigations in the coast of Mersin and Antalya districts of the
Turkish Mediterranean have been carried out with the permission of the Ministry of Culture of …

The 2 nd millennium BC in the Eurasian Steppe has widely been recognised as the period
of exponential surge in circulation of metals, as well as metal exploitation activities across …

East and West and, although in recent times the island's inhabitants feel a much stronger
affiliation with the land rather than with the sea, this was not the case in Antiquity. The …

Many of the arguments for how and why people began to use iron in Southwest Asia rely on
assumptions about the technology and relative organization of copper and iron smelting …

Abstract Models for iron innovation in Eurasia are predicated on understanding the
relationship between the bronze and iron industries. In eastern Anatolia, the South …

We investigate intrasite patterns of artifacts and floral and faunal data to interpret household
and community behavior at the Middle Cypriot (Bronze Age) village of Politiko-Troullia in the …