Published October 24, 2017
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METAL ARTEFACTS IN CHALCOLITHIC CYPRUS: NEW DATA FROM WESTERN CYPRUS
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- 1. Faculty of Archaeology, Leiden University, PO Box 9514, 2300 RA Leiden, The Netherlands
- 2. Department of History and Archaeology, The University of Cyprus, PO Box 20537, Nicosia CY-1678 Republic of Cyprus
- 3. Department of Archaeology, The University of Manchester, Oxford Road, Manchester M13 9PL United Kingdom
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The origins of copper-based metallurgy on the island of Cyprus, which became the main supplier of the metal in the Late Bronze Age in the Mediterranean and whose name became associated with the metal, is relatively obscure. While metal extraction and metal artefacts became increasingly important in the broader Near East, early metallurgy on Cyprus remains poorly known, and it is often postulated that metals were of limited importance on the island prior to the Philia phase. Here we present a unique context from the Late Chalcolithic (ca. 2800-2400 BC) from the excavations at Chlorakas- Palloures that has considerable ramifications for this debate.
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