This presentation provides an overview of recent work on the metallurgical assemblage from prehistoric Kephala and Ayia Irini on Kea. Final Neolithic Kephala has produced some of the earliest evidence for copper metallurgy in the southern Aegean (4th millennium BCE). Metallurgical tools and debris have also been found at the long-lived site of Ayia Irini, in deposits dating from the Final Neolithic through the Late Bronze Age (4th-2nd millennium BCE). Participation in exchange and metallurgy seems to have been crucial to the local economy throughout these eras. This rich assemblage enables an investigation of how metallurgists on Kea were integrated into local and regional networks over the long term.
Wednesday, March 19, 2025, 12 pm EST, 7 pm in Greece, Zoom format
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