Metallurgy in the Early Bronze Age Aegean

The third SCAA round-table meeting focused on Metallurgy in the Early Bronze Age. In response to the recent dominance of provenance studies, the papers in this volume reflect a change of emphasis towards understanding metal technologies and contextualising them, in this case, within the archaeology of the Early Bronze Aegean. Many of the new discoveries made at the sites of Chrysokamino, Poros-Katsambas and Kythnos, which refocused attention from the laboratory to the field, were reported for the first time at the round table and are presented here. Shifts in theoretical approaches, the availability of new data and a resistance to singularly addressing provenance, made for interesting debates that are expanded upon in these fourteen contributions. Book jacket.