Cyprus in the Late Bronze Age

Catling, H. W.

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“…37 In Crete itself the copper oxhide ingots from Zakros date to LM IA (c. 1550-1500 BC) whilst those from Hagia Triadha date somewhere between late MM III and LM IA. These and other facts have led Catling to argue that: 38 The Mycenaean colonisation of Cyprus at the end of the thirteenth century BC brought a revolution in the working and management of the metal industry, including the introduction of the 'ox-hide' ingot as a technical and administrative convenience. Though the final history of this ingot type belongs to Cyprus, there is no proof that it originated there.…”

Section: T H E Source or Sources Of The O X H I D E Ingots -Archaeolomentioning

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Oxhide Copper Ingots in Crete and Cyprus and the Bronze Age Metals Trade

Gale¹,

Stos-Gale²

1986

Annu. Br. Sch. Athens

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Lead isotope and neutron activation analyses of second millennium BC copper ingots are described. Examples from Cyprus, from the Mathiati hoard, and from Skouriotissa are consistent, and show similarities with Late Cypriot bronze artefacts from Hala Sultan Teke and Ayios Dhimitrios. Analysis of the Hagia Triada ingots shows that these Cretan examples were not imports from Cyprus. The possibility that they used Cretan ores is discussed and rejected. It is tentatively suggested they may be of Anatolian origin. It is clear that the Late Bronze Age metal trade was organized on a more complex basis than was previously assumed to be the case.

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Section: T H E Source or Sources Of The O X H I D E Ingots -Archaeolomentioning

confidence: 99%

Oxhide Copper Ingots in Crete and Cyprus and the Bronze Age Metals Trade

Gale¹,

Stos-Gale²

1986

Annu. Br. Sch. Athens

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The decline of Late Bronze Age civilization as a possible response to climatic change

Weiss¹

1982

Climatic Change

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Abstract. The disintegration of Eastern Mediterranean civilization at the end of the late Bronze Age (late thirteenth and twelfth centuries B.C.) has traditionally been attributed to the irruption of new peoples into this area. However, the nearly contemporaneous decline of highly organized and powerful states in Greece, Anatolia, Egypt, and Mesopotamia warrants consideration of possible environmental causes likely to operate over sizable areas, especially since archaeological research has not succeeded in establishing the presence of newcomers at the onset of the Bronze Age disturbances.Climatic change is a particularly attractive candidate since temperature and precipitation variations persisting over relatively short times can adversely affect agricultural output. Carpenter (1966) argued that the Mycenaean decline and migrations in and from Greece in the late thirteenth century were caused by prolonged drought and not the incursion of less civilized Dorian tribes. Donley (1971) and Bryson et al.

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Cyprus in the Late Bronze Age

Cited by 9 publications

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Oxhide Copper Ingots in Crete and Cyprus and the Bronze Age Metals Trade

Oxhide Copper Ingots in Crete and Cyprus and the Bronze Age Metals Trade

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The decline of Late Bronze Age civilization as a possible response to climatic change

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