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Author:   Toby C Wilkinson ,  Susan Sherratt
Publisher:   Oxbow Books
Imprint:   Oxbow Books
Volume:   14
ISBN:  

9781789259612

ISBN 10:   1789259614
Pages:   224
Publication Date:   15 February 2023
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

List of Contributors Precious Circuits: Introduction Toby Wilkinson and Susan Sherratt  1. Precious Metal Values: Reflecting on Colours, Agency, and Domination Toby C. Wilkinson 2. Interaction, Gold, and Power: Contrasting Stories from Tombs across the East Mediterranean ca. 2000–1800 BC Borja Legarro Herrera 3. Greek Silver before Coinage: Medium of Exchange, Means of Wealth Accumulation, or Commodity? Susan Sherratt 4. The Sword and the Axe. Symbols of Value in the Bronze Age Social and Economic Exchange Networks Linking the Aegean to Italy within a Diachronic Perspective Elisabetta Borgna 5. The Development of Ironworking in the 12th and 11th Centuries in Cyprus Joanna Palermo 6. Provinces of Innovation. On the Introduction of Iron in the Near East Christopher Pare 7. Graves of Power. Circulation of Elite Strategies between Caucasus and South-eastern Anatolia in the Dawn of the Bronze Age Martina Massimino

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"""[T]his volume can be considered as a major development in the scholarship of early metals in the Mediterranean and south-west Asia as it provides a range of pathways to explore the different values and changing roles of metals.""-- ""Antiquity"""

"""Intended to have broad appeal, this neat, slim, yet robust paperback volume maintains an accessible style throughout. [T]his volume shines a welcome spotlight on several key topics of recent interest to archaeometallurgists, loosely centered around the cultural specificity of metal use and conceptualization, as well as the transformation of meaning as metals move between societies (both geographically and chronologically), developments that may have otherwise escaped the attention of a wider audience.""--Hannah Mattson ""Journal of Anthropological Research"" ""[T]his volume can be considered as a major development in the scholarship of early metals in the Mediterranean and south-west Asia as it provides a range of pathways to explore the different values and changing roles of metals.""-- ""Antiquity"""

Author Information

Toby Wilkinson is MSCA Postdoctoral Researcher at the Institut Català d¬Arqueologia Clàssica (ICAC), Tarragona, Spain, and previously at the McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research and Churchill College, Cambridge. His interests include spatial visualisation, macro-scale socioeconomic change, socio-technological change and cross-craft interaction and ancient technology (including textiles and metallurgy). Susan Sherratt is Reader in Mediterranean Archaeology at the University of Sheffield. Her research interests are in the Bronze and Early Iron Ages of the Aegean, Cyprus and the wider eastern Mediterranean, particularly in all aspects of trade and interaction within and beyond these regions and in exploring the ways in which the Homeric epics and the archaeological record can most usefully be combined.

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