Description: This third volume about the Cretan Collection in the Penn Museum presents the Minoan metal artifacts. They provide primary evidence for the early history of metallurgy in southeastern Europe during the second millennium B.C. The assemblage is remarkable for the light its objects shed on the history of technology.
Brief description: Philip P. Betancourt: Professor Emeritus of Prehistoric Aegean Art and Archaeology, Dept. of Art History, Temple Univsersity, Philadelphia, PA. Susan C. Ferrence: Consulting Scholar, Mediterranean Section, Penn Museum, Philadelphia, PA. Alessandra Giumlia-Mair: Head of the Laboratory of Architectural Archaeology and Interdisciplinary Study of Architectural Sites, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow; founder of AGM Archaeoanalisi Laboratory, Merano, Italy.