Scientific analysis of metal objects and metallurgical remains from kastri, kythera

The Annual of the British School at Athens

Volumn 102, Issue , 2007, Pages 219-238

  Broodbank, Cyprian ^a   Rehren, Thilo ^a   Zianni, Antonia Maria ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

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EID: 57849093210     PISSN: 00682454     EISSN: 20452403     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S006824540002147X     Document Type: Article

References (14)

1. G. L. Huxley, ‘Small finds from deposits’, in Kythera, 205-19.
2. For further information on the Kythera Island Project, visit www.ucl.ac.uk/kip, where all publications by the project are listed.
3. The existence of the soft pit within an area delineated at a higher level by two limestone blocks is noted in the unpublished excavation notebooks held in the archive of the British School at Athens; it is also implicit in the description in the final publication, and visible in one published illustration; see R. Hope Simpson and J. F. Lazenby, ‘The Akroterion excavations’, in Kythera, 59, pi. 11 b. The unpublished notebooks leave no doubt that the pottery in Level 19 was exclusively MM III-LM IA in date, and that it at least in part derived from the surrounding midden.
4. See Hope Simpson and Lazenby (n. 9). The unpublished notebooks fully bear this out; one of the two excavation units into which Level 18 was divided contained mainly LM I A pottery, with some MM III but no LM I B, whilst the second was very similar in composition save for the one or two LM I B sherds.
5. J. N. Coldstream, ‘Deposits of pottery from the settlement’, in Kythera, 123-4.
6. Coldstream (n. 11), 159-65; G. L. Huxley andj. N. Coldstream, ‘Trial excavations near Kastri’, in Kythera, 73.
7. Huxley (n. 2), 206-7.
8. C. Salter, ‘The identification of calcium ferrite slag in Bronze Age copper smelting’, poster presented at the conference Metallurgy: A Touchstone for Cross-Cultural Interaction, British Museum, April 2005.
9. A. Hauptmann, Th. Rehren, and S. Schmitt-Strecker, ‘Early Bronze Age copper metallurgy at Shahr-i Sokhta (Iran), reconsidered’, in Th. Stoellner, G. Korlin, G. Steffens, and J. Cierny (eds.), Man and Mining (Der Anschnitt, Beiheft 16; Bochum, 2003), 197-213.
10. J. D. Muhly, R. Maddin, T. Stech, and E. Ozgen, ‘Iron in Anatolia and the nature of the Hittite iron industry’, Anatolian Studies, 35 (1985), 67-84.
11. I. Keesmann, ‘Eisen in antiken Schlacken des sudwestiberischen Sulfiderz-Giirtels’, Pallas, 50 (1999), 339-60; Th. Rehren, J. Schneider, and C. Bartels, ‘Medieval lead-silver smelting in the Siegerland, West Germany’, Historical Metallurgy, 33 (iggg), 73-84.
12. Hauptmann et al. (n. 19).
13. Gale (n. 12), 201.
14. On the rural farmsteads of Second Palace period Kythera, see A. Bevan, ‘The rural landscape of Neopalatial Kythera: A CIS perspective’, Journal of Mediterranean Archaeology, 15 (2002), 217-56, and C. Broodbank, ‘Minoanisation’, PCPS 50 (2004), fig. 3. The ground stone from the KIP survey is currently being studied by Tania Gerousi.