N. Dimopoulou-Rethemiotaki’s scientific contributions

... These distribution trends suggest that slipped tablewares were a focus of exchange between within Corinthia and the Argolid, and included supra-regional exchange to encompass pottery from Aegina. This certainly fits the EBA picture more broadly where we see more that specialist products from specific production centres start to be more prominently distributed regionally and sometimes over long distances (Dimopoulou-Rethemiotaki et al. 2007;Menelaou and Day 2020;Wilson et al. 2008;Day and Wilson 2016). ...

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Strategies for success: Early Helladic pottery production in Corinth, Greece

... Several sites in Crete, the large island located in the southern Aegean region, began smelting copper ores in order to make useful small objects at the interface between the end of the Neolithic and the beginning of the Early Bronze Age. Their geographic distribution is spread across the northeastern coast of Crete, from the central part of the large isl and (Dimopoulou et al. 2007) to the Gulf of Mirabello in the northeast (Betancourt 2006) to the bay of Siteia farther east (Papadatos 2007;2008). Among these three areas, only the metal workshop at Chrysokamino on the Gulf of Mirabello has been excavated, as the information from the other two locations comes from the evidence of slag and other secondary finds in the general working areas, not from the actual location of the small kilns used for the smelting. ...

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Early Bronze Age copper smelting furnaces from Chrysokamino, Crete

... It is more probable that they represent impurities deriving from the parent ore used. Yet their presence is in tune with the contemporary (EBA) predominant technological framework whereby arsenical copper was produced either intentionally or accidentally on several sites in the Aegean (Doonan et al. 2007;Georgakopoulou et al. 2020;Nerantzis and Papadopoulos 2023). The darker grey area to the left of the copper core is made up of 44% CuO with SiO 2 contents reaching 54%. ...

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Copper of the Kabeiroi: Bronze age metallurgy at Mikró Vouní on Samothrace and its Minoan connections