Middle and Late Bronze Age Metal Tools from the Aegean, Eastern ...

Ithaka-Polis 3 - 3 - 1 single/flat ax; 1 chisel; 1
& general
socketed chisel
Kephalonia 2 - 1 1 1 chisel; 1 single/flat ax
Kalapodi 2 - - 2 1 chisel; 1 saw
Andronianoi 2 - 2 - 1 double ax; 1 saw
Vrysarion 2 - 2 - 2 single/flat axes
Vaphio 2 2 - - 1 ax-adze; 1 ceremonial,
fenestrated ax
Chalandritsa 2 - 2 - 1 double ax; 1 single/flat ax
(A. Vasilios)
Table 4.23: Late Helladic carpentry/masonry tool distribution by site (sites with one tool are excluded
unless they are major palatial or urban sites)
Sites from the Greek islands:
Only two carpentry/masonry tools—double axes from Phylakopi and from the
Megalochori quarry at Thera—are known on the Greek islands during the MBA period.
Wood- and stone-working implements are infrequent despite their appearance on the
islands in the EBA metal hoards. Based upon a publication photograph, the MBA Theran
double ax resembles a Minoan double ax type but this identification is not confirmed. 505
LBA carpentry/masonry tools (Table 4.24) are still relatively rare on the islands but are
more abundant than the MBA examples. Chisels are the typical LBA island tool though
various axes and a saw are also known.
Although Iaylsos (Rhodes) produced the most specimens, no single island site had
an overwhelming number of wood- and stone-working tools. Given the level of
preservation at Akrotiri, one may have expected to find such implements in abundance,
but there is a general absence of metal artifacts at the site. Only three LBA
carpentry/masonry implements are from Akrotiri, and the tools (a saw and two chisels)
are undoubtedly Minoan in origin or at least Cretan inspired. Many other wood- and
stone-working tools must have existed at Akrotiri, yet these were either carried away by
the inhabitants prior to the eruption or still await discovery. Tool marks are better
505 Doumas, Marthari and Televantou 2000, 10 entry 11, figure 11.
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