This volume examines prehistoric copper mining in Europe, from the first use of the metal
eight thousand years ago in the Balkans to its widespread adoption during the Bronze Age …

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 …

The earliest use of silver as a means of payment in the Levant is generally overlooked, and
hoarded silver for use as currency is often considered an Iron Age phenomenon. Based on …

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 …

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 …

An iron and bronze workshop in the lower city of Tell es-Safi/Gath, dated to the mid-late Iron
IIA, contributes new data on the chronology, organization, and practice of metal production …

A collection of 206 copper-base artefacts coming from the Late Bronze Age settlement of
Enkomi, located on the east coast of Cyprus, and dated to the 16th-11th centuries BC, was …

In a recent study, historian Joe Manning1 argued for the term 'the Greek millennium'to be
applied to Egyptian history from the seventh century BC to the first century BC, since the …

In two studies published some 25 years ago (; 1988), I argued that the rise of social
complexity on Cyprus during the late Middle to early Late Bronze Age involved the interplay …