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- - - - Lapithos knives: All knives were consistently carburized with some showing extensively distorted pearlite relic structure indicating that the iron was not only hardened by carburization but also cold hammered.
      - Surviving martensite slivers from Idalion knives. Remnant manrtensite?
    - - Iron and Early Metallurgy in the Mediterranean
        
        The circumstance of the high iron content in Cypriot copper ores has been noted, but no startlingly early iron artifacts are known, and the bronze industry itself remains conservative and rather uninspiring until the arrival of a strong wave of Aegean influence. Yet, as recent scientific study and archaeological discoveries 1200 b.c. about have combined to show, the almost immediate sequel was a phase of fairly intensive experimentation with working iron (stage 2 as defined earlier), roughly corresponding with the Late Cypriot Ill A period, and a transition to a full Iron Age (stage 3) no later than the end of Late Cypriot III B, that is, ca. 1050 b.c. This remarkable achievement, not precisely matched
        
        They have adopted quickly iron for the production of knives. "of metal. The Cypriot smiths seem, for whatever reason, to have moved faster to adopt the new metal for knives than for other practical implements."
        
        Ancient foundry on Ischia was working with Hematite improted from the mines of Elba 250 miles to the northwest - Giorgio Buchner Archaeological reports 17
        
        sickles from enkopmi excavations
      - Could iron have been produced in Cyprus
        
        For source of iron can slag inclusions be analysed?
        
        Tholander 1971
      - Cyprus and the Beginnings of Iron Technology in the Eastern Mediterranean
        
        Why - how - so what
        
        This evidence suggests that the impressively high ‘iron score' for Anatolia in the eleventh century may be fortuitous; there is also the important fact that one of the main Anatolian sites for this period, ASSARLIK, is universally accepted as being a settlement of Greek immigrants from some other part of the Aegean.
        
        Stage 1, in which iron is used with greater or less frequency for purposes of display and prestige, from Stage 2 in which it is used for practical purposes but as yet less frequently than bronze. The criterion of proportion is used to set off Stage 2 from Stage 3, in which iron has become more frequent than bronze as working metal. The speed of progression through these three stages can, as we shall see, differ by a margin of centuries in different areas, even when they are geographically adjacent.
        
        He made some changes in the three staged scheme for adoption of iron
        
        bronze handled iron daggers could be also regarded as prestigeous object.
        
        question: what if bronze hilted iron daggers were produced from high quality of steel with proper heat treatments.
        
        Critcis to the statistical model is the corrosion and unpublished or not reported iron chunks which could not be classified.
        
        Proportion analysis based on the statistical evaluation of excavated objects focusing on the proportions of iron and bronze objects. This includes the typological analysis
        
        contexts are mostly from burials rather than occupation sites
        
        Iron is destroyed by corrosion on the other hand bronzes are recycled
        
        Material analysis
        
        Carburising, quenching, tempering etc.
        
        The emergence of iron as a valuable metal does not necessarily mean that the metal was abundant or well-worked in that location. However, if tools were being produced, then this would be true.