Publications
Book: The Manufacture of Minoan Metal Vessels: Theory and Practice
This volume reconstructs the processes used to create Minoan hammered precious-metal and copper-alloy vessels, combining an assessment of the archaeological material with the practical application of replicated equipment and techniques. This interdisciplinary approach provides a new perspective on Minoan metallurgy and metalworkers. It has important implications for interpreting Minoan metal artefacts, metallurgical evidence, the organisation of production and the place of Minoan vessels within the broader context of contemporary societies.
Reviews of The Manufacture of Minoan Metal Vessels: Theory and Practice
“She brings both scholarly study and a thorough technical understanding of how to manufacture metal vessels to her work, and the result is an excellent book. The volume is an essential study for anyone considering the manufacturing techniques used in Minoan workshops….The volume is an important contribution to the subject of Minoan and Mycenaean metalworking practices. The production of metal objects, particularly in copper and bronze, was a crucial part of the economy in palatial Crete during the Bronze Age. This book’s interdisciplinary approach, combining the study of the ancient artifacts with the experience from replicating vessels of Minoan design, offers several new insights into the Minoan craftwork tradition. It is recommended for every serious library.”
Philip P. Betancourt, Book Review of The Manufacture of Minoan Metal Vessels: Theory and Practice, by Christina F. Clarke, American Journal of Archaeology (2017): 121.
“…this is a bold, innovative book based on original multidisciplinary research in which archaeological knowledge and practice-based learning are closely tied together….it is a learned piece of scholarship that will sit comfortably on the shelves of academics, postgraduate students and practitioners interested in experimental approaches to ancient metallurgy.”
Andrea Dolfini, Review of C.F. Clarke, The Manufacture of Minoan Metal Vessels: Theory and Practice (Uppsala 2013), Antiquity 88 (2014): 1337-1339.
Articles and Chapters
2024, “Appendix of Choix de chansons Metadata,” in Wellington et al., Choix de Chansons: a digital critical edition,” https://choixdechansons.cdhr.anu.edu.au/appendix-of-choix-de-chansons-metadata/.
2023, Robert Wellington and Christina Clarke. “Collaborative Artisanship: Medals at Louis XIV’s Royal Mint,” Journal of Historical Metallurgy, 54.1, 21-35, https://doi.org/10.54841/hm.659.
2022, “The Sun King’s Silver: An Artisan-Centered Study of the Silver Furnishigs of Louis XIV,” West 86th: A Journal of Decorative Arts, Design History, and Material Culture 29.2, https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/abs/10.1086/725983.
2022, “Reanimating the Goldsmith: An Artisanal Reading of the Archive,” Journal18: A Journal of 18th Century Art and Culture 14, https://www.journal18.org/issue14/reanimating-the-goldsmith-an-artisanal-reading-of-the-archive/.
(Forthcoming) Robert Wellington and C. Clarke, “La fabrication des médailles de Louis XIV,” in Yvan Loskoutoff (ed.) Les medailles de Louis XIV et leur livre Vol. 3.
2021, “Minoan Double-Axe Head,” Australian National University Classics Museum Catalogue [online museum catalogue].
2014, “Minoan Metal Vessel Manufacture: Reconstructing Techniques and Technology with Experimental Archaeology”, in Rebecca B. Scott, Dennis Braekmans, Mike Carremans & Patrick Degryse (eds) 39th International Symposium on Archaeometry: 28 May – 1 June 2012 Leuven, Belgium, (Centre for Archaeological Sciences, KU Leuven, Leuven), 81-85.
2012, “Minoan Metal Vessel Manufacturing: Techniques and Technology”, Chronika 2: 11-21.
Editorial
Christina Clarke, Nicholas Cronk, Erin Helyard, Mark Ledbury, Glenn Roe, Robert Wellington (eds), Jean Benjamin de Laborde’s 1773 Choix de chansons: A Critical Digital Edition [serial digital publication], https://choixdechansons.cdhr.anu.edu.au.
Scholarly Blog Posts and Web Content
Stephanie Aulsebrook and Christina Clarke, “‘Peaceful’ Minoans, ‘Warlike’ Mycenaeans and their Precious Metal Vessels: A Reassessment of a Tired Cliché,” Historical Metallurgy Society, July 3, 2020, https://historicalmetallurgy.org/hms-members-projects/mycenaean-vessels.
“Metalwork in the Encyclopédie: Critical Interpretation and the Evidence of Material Culture,” Voltaire Foundation Blog, 15 January, 2019, https://voltairefoundation.wordpress.com/2019/01/15/metalwork-in-the-encyclopedie-critical-interpretation-and-the-evidence-of-material-culture/.
“Ernest Gimson and Alfred Bucknell Sconce, c. 1904-1906. National Gallery of Australia,” Metal History Notes (blog), first published March 12, 2018.
“Paul Revere Teapot, 1760-65. Museum of Fine Arts Boston,” Metal History Notes (blog), first published March 11, 2018.
Reviews
2017, “Conference Review: ‘Enchanted Isles, Fatal Shores: Living Versailles,’ National Gallery of Australia, April 17-18, 2017,” The Court Historian 22, no. 2 (2017), 218-220.
2016, Review of Metals in LBA Minoan and Mycenaean Societies on Crete: A Quantitative Approach by Lena Hakulin, 4 May, 2016, Bryn Mawr Classical Review, http://www.bmcreview.org/2016/05/20160504.html.
Other Publications
2020, “The Manufacturing Network of Louis XIV’s Silver Furniture,” Furniture History Society Newsletter 218 (May 2020), 29-30
2012, “Hollowware manufacture in Crete during the Bronze Age,” Newsletter of the Silver Society of Australia, October 2012: 9-