The Chrysokamino Metallurgy Workshop and its Territory

By (author) Philip P. Betancourt

Book cover: The Chrysokamino Metallurgy Workshop and its Territory

Extent: 484, 484 pages

Publisher: American School of Classical Studies at Athens

Subjects: European Prehistory, Mediterranean Archaeology

Series: Hesperia Supplement

Series volume number: 36

Language: English

(Paperback) (Published)

(September 2006)

ISBN: 9780876615362

8.46 x 10.98 inches

Price: $74.95

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This 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).


This 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.

  • By (author) Philip P. Betancourt