Early Iron Age Greek copper-based technology : votive offerings from Thessaly
The thesis aims to explore metallurgical technology in Greece during the Early Iron Age (EIA). Emphasis is put on copper-based metallurgy as there is a large body of evidence in the archaeological record to support the large-scale production of copper-tin-lead alloy objects in the post-Mycenaean period and the first half of the 1st millennium BC. Such artefacts played a significant role having both utilitarian and symbolic features as they have been deposited by the thousands as votive dedications to the EIA sanctuaries such as Delphi and Olympia. Questions in regard to these objects' mode of production, circulation, use and the circumstances of their ritual deposition, as well as of the sanctuaries' economics and their ability to attract a significant proportion of available wealth thus arise. The assemblage of copper-based artefacts recovered at the sanctuary of Enodia in Thessaly has been selected in order to investigate EIA copper metallurgy during this period of transformation for Greek society. A sample of almost three hundred objects has been selected and investigated with the application of archaeometric quantitative and qualitative analytical methods. Meanwhile, research focused on the objects' chemical
Orfanou, S.
Early Iron Age Greek copper-based technology : votive offerings from Thessaly. The thesis aims to explore metallurgical technology in Greece during the Early Iron Age (EIA). Emphasis is put on copper-based metallurgy as there is a large body of evidence in the archaeological record to support the large-scale production of copper-tin-lead alloy objects in the post-Mycenaean period and the first half of the 1st millennium BC. Such artefacts played a significant role having both utilitarian and symbolic features as they have been deposited by the thousands as votive dedications to the EIA sanctuaries such as Delphi and Olympia. Questions in regard to these objects' mode of production, circulation, use and the circumstances of their ritual deposition, as well as of the sanctuaries' economics and their ability to attract a significant proportion of available wealth thus arise. The assemblage of copper-based artefacts recovered at the sanctuary of Enodia in Thessaly has been selected in order to investigate EIA copper metallurgy during this period of transformation for Greek society. A sample of almost three hundred objects has been selected and investigated with the application of archaeometric quantitative and qualitative analytical methods. Meanwhile, research focused on the objects' chemical
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