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

Kalavasos-Ayios 11 ? ? -
adze-hammers; 3 single/ flat adzes;
2 double axes; 2 saws
8 chisels; 2 single/flat axes; 1
Dhimitrios
socketed chisel
Mathiati 11 - 11 - 3 double adzes; 3 single/flat axes; 2
double axes; 1 chisel; 1 adzehammer;
1 ax-adze
Episkopi –
Bamboula
6 - 5 - 3 socketed chisels; 2 chisels; 1 saw
Hala Sultan
Tekke
5 - 2 - 5 chisels
Toumba tou 5 5 - - 2 single/flat axes; 2 socketed
Skourou
chisels; 1 chisel
Pyla –
5 - 5 - 3 drills; 1 ax-adze; 1
Kokkinokremnos
trunnion/lugged adze
Maa –
Palaekastro
5 - 5 - 3 chisels; 2 drills
Athienou 4 - - - 4 chisels
Ayia Paraskevi 3 1 - - 3 single/flat axes
Apliki - 3 - 3 - 3 chisels (2 of which are drills and
Karamallos
chisels)
Arsos 2 2 - - 2 single/flat axes
Katydata 2 ? ? ? 1 single/flat ax; 1 saw
Ayios Iakovos 2 2 - - 1 single/flat ax; 1 trunnion/lugged
ax
Lapithos 2 - 2 - 1 single/flat ax; 1 chisel
Kition 1 - - - 1 saw
Table 4.26: Late Cypriot carpentry/masonry tool distribution by site (sites with one tool are excluded
unless they are major palatial or urban sites)
Sites from the Anatolian MBA:
Carpentry/masonry tools were scattered throughout Anatolia during the early
second millennium, and one site did not act as the principal consumer of the implements.
Troy, Kültepe, Alishar Höyük, and Alaca Höyük represent the chief centers with wood-
and stone-working utensils (Table 4.27). The dominant Anatolian MBA tools consist of
chisels, socketed chisels, trunnion/lugged axes, and shaft-hole axes. Saws are unattested
in Anatolia other than two at Troy; these Trojan specimens conformed to an Aegean
cultural sphere more so than to an Anatolian one. There are few changes in Anatolian tool
preferences from the MBA to the LBA. The popular tool forms remained the same, and
many MBA Anatolian sites continued to utilize carpentry/masonry implements in the
subsequent period.
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