No place like home for metalworkers: Household-based metal production at Early Bronze Age Çukuriçi Höyük and beyond

Abstract

This article questions the cross-cultural ethnographic insight of metalworking as a male craft, commonly performed in male spaces (workshops) away from female members of society, through the analysis of archaeological evidence for the household-based metal production within multi-gendered and multi-generational households and corresponding but rare ethnographic examples.