entity · people_mobile_craft_specialists
Mobile craft specialists and shipborne metalworkers
Also known as: itinerant specialists
Unnamed metallurgists, potters, ivory workers, glass workers, textile specialists, scribes, and repair crews whose skills and objects moved among settlements and ships.
Review and provenance
Specialist reviewer: not recorded. Review date: not recorded.
Dataset workflow: proposed. This is separate from specialist review.
Confidence describes the stated assessment; it does not certify expert approval. How review works.
Chronology
Dating intervals may describe uncertainty or phases; their width alone does not establish event duration.
1600 BCE–1000 BCE
Precision: approximate
- informs · provides archaeological observation
Cape Gelidonya: A Bronze Age Shipwreck — George F. Bass, Peter Throckmorton, Joan du Plat Taylor, J. B. Hennessy, Alan R. Shulman, Hans-Günter Buchholz (1967)Documents a shipborne craft assemblage.
Locator: Metalworking tools and scrap cargo - informs · provides technical evidence
One City to Rule Them All? The Production of Copper in Enkomi, Cyprus: The Evidence from the Metallurgical Ceramic Assemblage — Demetrios Ioannides, Vasiliki Kassianidou, George Papasavvas (2024)Documents differentiated urban craft stages.
Locator: Enkomi metallurgical specialization - informs · provides source criticism
Bronze Age Cyprus and the Aegean: ‘Exotic Currency’ and Objects of Connectivity — A. Bernard Knapp (2022)Separates skills and objects from ethnicity.
Locator: Objects, emulation, and connectivity
Research description
Shared techniques and mixed assemblages may reflect mobile specialists, apprenticeship, imitation, object circulation, or household mixing. Mobility must be tested rather than assumed from style alone.
Evidence and sources
- informs · provides archaeological observation
Cape Gelidonya: A Bronze Age Shipwreck — George F. Bass, Peter Throckmorton, Joan du Plat Taylor, J. B. Hennessy, Alan R. Shulman, Hans-Günter Buchholz (1967)Documents a shipborne craft assemblage.
Locator: Metalworking tools and scrap cargo - informs · provides technical evidence
One City to Rule Them All? The Production of Copper in Enkomi, Cyprus: The Evidence from the Metallurgical Ceramic Assemblage — Demetrios Ioannides, Vasiliki Kassianidou, George Papasavvas (2024)Documents differentiated urban craft stages.
Locator: Enkomi metallurgical specialization - informs · provides source criticism
Bronze Age Cyprus and the Aegean: ‘Exotic Currency’ and Objects of Connectivity — A. Bernard Knapp (2022)Separates skills and objects from ethnicity.
Locator: Objects, emulation, and connectivity