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Copper Smelting in Late Bronze Age Cyprus: The Excavations at Politiko Phorades
A. Bernard Knapp, Vasiliki Kassianidou, Michael Donnelly · 2001
Citation metadata
- Type
- peer-reviewed journal article
- Publication
- Near Eastern Archaeology, vol. 64, no. 4, 204–212
- Peer reviewed
- Yes
Records informed by this source
- property Inland production nodeinforms · defines property · Politiko-Phorades
Documents primary smelting inland.
- geography assertion Politiko-Phorades — geography assertioninforms · locates · Excavation report smelting-site locator
Representative point for the archaeological site. It is not a settlement footprint, harbour boundary, cemetery extent, or political territory.
- date assertion Troodos copper ore and slag landscapes — date assertioninforms · provides archaeological observation · Politiko-Phorades primary smelting
Documents one inland production stage.
- entity Politiko-PhoradesEvidence confidence: very highinforms · provides archaeological observation · Excavation and metallurgical analyses
Primary evidence for smelting.
- date assertion Politiko-Phorades — date assertioninforms · provides archaeological observation · Excavation and metallurgical analyses
Primary evidence for smelting.
- entity Troodos mining and smelting communitiesEvidence confidence: highinforms · provides archaeological observation · Politiko-Phorades production context
Documents specialist work and infrastructure.
- date assertion Troodos mining and smelting communities — date assertioninforms · provides archaeological observation · Politiko-Phorades production context
Documents specialist work and infrastructure.
- relationship Politiko-Phorades — located within research landscape — Troodos copper ore and slag landscapesEvidence confidence: highinforms · provides archaeological observation · Excavation and metallurgical analyses
Primary evidence for smelting.
- entity Troodos copper ore and slag landscapesEvidence confidence: highinforms · provides archaeological observation · Politiko-Phorades primary smelting
Documents one inland production stage.
- relationship Troodos mining and smelting communities — participated in — Troodos copper ore and slag landscapesEvidence confidence: near certaininforms · provides case study · Politiko-Phorades primary smelting
Documents one inland production community.
- relationship Research record — associated withEvidence confidence: near certaininforms · provides primary excavation and scientific evidence · Excavation and archaeometallurgical analyses
Directly documents primary smelting.
- relationship Primary copper smelting at Politiko-Phorades — occurred at or affected — Politiko-PhoradesEvidence confidence: near certaininforms · provides primary excavation and scientific evidence · Excavation and archaeometallurgical analyses
Directly documents primary smelting.
- relationship Primary copper smelting at Politiko-Phorades — occurred at or affected — Troodos copper ore and slag landscapesEvidence confidence: near certaininforms · provides primary excavation and scientific evidence · Excavation and archaeometallurgical analyses
Directly documents primary smelting.
- event Primary copper smelting at Politiko-PhoradesEvidence confidence: near certaininforms · provides primary excavation and scientific evidence · Excavation and archaeometallurgical analyses
Directly documents primary smelting.
- relationship Research record — associated withEvidence confidence: near certaininforms · provides primary excavation and scientific evidence · Excavation and archaeometallurgical analyses
Directly documents primary smelting.
- date assertion Primary copper smelting at Politiko-Phorades — date assertionEvidence confidence: near certaininforms · provides primary excavation and scientific evidence · Excavation and archaeometallurgical analyses
Directly documents primary smelting.
- ranked model How was copper production organized across mining, smelting, refining, manufacture, and export?informs · provides primary smelting case · Politiko-Phorades
Documents primary smelting away from major coastal cities.
- property assignment Politiko-Phorades — has evidence classification — Copper-production nodeEvidence confidence: near certaininforms · supports assignment · Excavation and analyses
Furnaces, slag, and technical ceramics directly document primary smelting.
- claim Ore provenance, mining, primary smelting, matte transport, refining, alloying, casting, oxhide-ingot form, cargo movement, and political control must be represented as separate …Evidence confidence: near certainsupports · provides primary smelting example · Politiko-Phorades
Documents one stage.
- claim Enkomi's scale and metallurgical intensity support exceptional centrality but do not alone prove hegemony over all Cypriot mines, ports, workshops, or settlements.Evidence confidence: highsupports · supports distributed model · Politiko-Phorades primary smelting
Shows inland production outside Enkomi.