The Manufacture of Minoan Metal Vessels: Theory and Practice
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2013
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Clarke, Christina
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At some time during the Early Bronze Age, smiths in Crete either learned or discovered how to hammer a piece of metal into a thin-walled vessel. During these early stages, such vessels were probably made from precious metals, which were soft and easy to work, but as pyrotechnology advanced and the characteristics of alloys came to be understood during the Middle and Late Bronze Ages, vessels were also made from arsenic bronzes and, later, tin bronzes. Today, we have some understanding of the value of these vessels in social and symbolic terms. What has not been understood is how they were actually made. A handful of artefacts have been identified as tools which might have been used to make vessels, but the question of how these were used is not asked.
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