Bronze Age Metallurgy on Mediterranean Islands. Volume in honor of Robert Maddin and Vassos Karageorgis, 2018, 632 p. -

This volume presents a number of updates, studies and researches on Bronze Age metallurgy of the major islands of the Mediterranean: the Balearic Islands, Corsica, Sardinia, Sicily, Crete and Cyprus. Sommaire : Lingotti oxhide e oltre. Sintesi ed aggiornamenti nel Mediterraneo e in Sardegna (F. Lo Schiavo) ; Lingotti piano-convessi (bun-ingots) ed altre forme di lingotto (F. Lo Schiavo) ; The Funtana Coberta-Ballao Hoard: new copper provenances in Nuragic metallurgy (I. Montero-Ruiz, M.R. Manunza, F. Lo Schiavo, P. Valera, J.I. Gil Ibarguchi, N. Rafel, P. Sureda) ; Copper ingots from the Nuraghe Arrubiu at Orroli (I. Montero-Ruiz) ; Un fragment de lingot de cuivre de Cuciurpula (T. Lachenal, K. Pêche-Quilichini, I. Montero-Ruiz) ; Matrici e crogioli in Sicilia e Corsica/ Moulds and Crucibles in Sicily and Corsica Produzione metallurgica nella Sicilia protostorica: matrici e crogioli (R.M. Albanese Procelli) ; Les outils du forgeron corse de l'âge du Bronze : creusets et moules (K. Pêche-Quilichini) ; Produzione in matrice nella Sardegna nuragica/Casting in moulds in nuragic Sardinia Introduzione e storia della ricerca (F. Lo Schiavo) ; Casting in moulds in Nuragic Sardinia, introduction and history of the research (F. Lo Schiavo) ; Casting techniques and the method of using moulds (R. F. Tylecote) ; Stone Moulds in Sardinian Museum Collections: Indicators of Bronze Age Metallurgical Technology (M.J. Becker) ; Le matrici e i crogioli della Sardegna nuragica (F. Lo Schiavo) ; Moulds and crucibles of Nuragic Sardinia (F. Lo Schiavo) ; A proposito di alcune matrici nuragiche da Bidonì, Sorradile e Narbolia (OR) (A. Usai) ; The moulds from Sardinia known as “steatite moulds”: studies on their lithology and provenance (S. Pretti, A. Sanna, S. Cara, C. Matzuzzi, A. Usai, P.Valera) ; I reperti archeometallurgici nel nuraghe e villaggio nuragico di Genna Maria, Villanovaforru (Cagliari) (M. Perra) ; Metallurgy in Sardinia, the Balearic Islands and the Western Mediterranean/ Metallurgia in Sardegna, nelle Baleari e nel Mediterraneo occidentale ; La strumentazione per la lavorazione dei metalli nella Sardegna nuragica (F. Lo Schiavo) ; Bronze Age Metalworking in the Balearic Islands (B. Salvà Simonet) ; Slag, Copper and Iron: The spread of slag smelting technology through the Mediterranean and Western Europe in later prehistory (P. Craddock) ; Crete and Cyprus/Creta e Cipro Metallurgical Habits and Workshop Remains in LM IB Mochlos, East-Crete (J. Soles and A. Giumlia-Mair) ; Arsenic in the network: Arsenical Copper on Minoan Crete (A. Giumlia-Mair, Ph. Betancourt, S. Ferrence) ; The Syme Sanctuary: Metal Analysis and the Work of Professor Robert Maddin (P. Muhly, J.D. Muhly) ; Copper and lead isotope characterization of Late Bronze Age copper ingots in the Eastern Mediterranean: results from Gelidonya, Gournia, Enkomi and Mathiati. (M. Jansen, A. Hauptmann, S. Klein) ; Ancient copper mining, oxhide ingots and a hoard – new data on Mathiatis from the State Archives of Cyprus (V. Kassianidou) ; Values, weights and equivalences of metals in the Late Bronze Age Eastern Mediterranean, or What could a copper oxhide ingot “buy”? (G. Papasavvas).