Metalworking and recycling in Late Bronze Age Cyprus - the evidence from Kition

Oxford Journal of Archaeology

Volumn 18, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 171-188

  Karageorghis, Vassos ^a   Kassianidou, Vasiliki ^b  

^a Leventis Foundation   (Cyprus)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CYPRUS   (Cyprus)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARCHAEOLOGICAL EVIDENCE; HISTORICAL GEOGRAPHY; INDUSTRIAL PRODUCTION; MANUFACTURING; METALS INDUSTRY;

CYPRUS;

EID: 0032766104     PISSN: 02625253     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1468-0092.00078     Document Type: Article

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