Joan du Plat Taylor's Excavatons at the Late Bronze Age Mining Settlement at Apliki Karamallos, Cyprus

PUBLISHED 2007. Please visit the publication's webpage: Joan du Plat Taylor's Excavatons at the Late Bronze Age Mining Settlement at Apliki Karamallos, Cyprus

This site, excavated in 1938 and 1939 by Joan duPlat Taylor (1952), is the only known primary center for the mining and smelting of copper in the Late Bronze Age, a time when Cyprus was a primary supplier of this vital metal to the eastern Mediterranean. In the context of greatly expanded knowledge of the Late Cypriot Bronze Age that has resulted from numerous excavations and studies since Taylor's work at Apliki, the present study comprises a reassessment of the site, the mining activities occurring there, and its place in the political and economic organization of Late Bronze Age Cyprus.