Publications

Peer-reviewed journal articles
Orfanou, V., Amicone, S., Sava, V., O’Neill, B., Brown, L., Bruyère, C., Molloy, B. (2022). Forging a New World Order? Interdisciplinary Perspectives on the Management of Metalworking and Ideological Change in the Late Bronze Age Carpathian Basin. Journal of Archaeological Method and Theory. DOI: 10.1007/s10816-022-09566-6

Sulas, F., Shifter Bagge, M., Enevold, R., Harrault, L.C.P., Kristiansen, S.M., Ljungberg, T., Milek, K., Mikkelsen, P.H., Orfanou, V., Out, W., Portillo, M., and Sindbæk, S.M. (2022). Revealing the invisible dead: integrated bio-geoarchaeological profiling exposes human and animal remains in a seemingly ‘empty’ Viking-Age burial. Journal of Archaeological Science 141, 105589. DOI: 10.1016/j.jas.2022.105589

Orfanou, V., Birch, T., Sindbæk, S.M., Feveile, C., Barfod, G.H., and Lesher, C.E. (2021). On diverse arts: crucible metallurgy and the polymetallic cycle at Scandinavia’s earliest Viking town, Ribe (8th-9th c. CE), Denmark. Journal of Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences 13, 81. DOI:10.1007/s12520-021-01308-1.

Kladouri, N.K., Karydas, A.G., Orfanou, V., Kantarelou, V., and Zacharias, N. (2021). Bronze votive pins from the sanctuary of Athena Alea at Tegea, Arcadia, Greece, 9th-7th c. BCE: A microscopic and compositional study using portable micro X-ray fluorescence spectrometry (micro-XRF). Journal of Archaeological Science Reports 37, 102975. DOI: 10.1016/j.jasrep.2021.102975.

Orfanou, V., Birch, T., Lichtenberger, A., Raja, R., Barfod, G.H., Lesher, C.E., and Eger, C. (2020). Copper-based metalwork in Roman to early Islamic Jerash (Jordan): Insights into production and recycling through alloy compositions and lead isotopes. Journal of Archaeological Science Reports 33, 102519. DOI: 10.1016/j.jasrep.2020.102519.

Birch, T., Orfanou, V., Lichtenberger, A., Raja, R, Barfod, G.H., Lesher, C.E., Schulze, I. and Schulze, W. (2019). From nummi minimi to fulūs – small change and wider issues: characterising coinage from Gerasa (Late Roman to Umayyad periods). Journal of Archaeological and Anthropological Science 11, 5359-5376. DOI: 10.1007/s12520-019-00866-9.

Orfanou, V., Collinet, A., El Morr, Z., and Bourgarit, D. (2018). Archaeometallurgical investigation of metal wares from the medieval Iranian world (10th-15th c): the ISLAMETAL project. Journal or Archaeological Science 95, 16-32. DOI: 10.1016/j.jas.2018.04.008.

Orfanou, V. and Rehren, T. (2015). A (not so) dangerous method: pXRF vs. EPMA-WDS analyses of copper-based artefacts. Journal of Archaeological and Anthropological Science, 7, 387–397. DOI: 10.1007/s12520-014-0198-z.

Book chapters
Orfanou, V., Sulas, F., Ljungberg, T., and Kristiansen, S.M. (2021). Mapping the invisible traces: Soil geochemistry of the horseman burial floor at Fregerslev. In: Pedersen, A. and Schifter Bagger M. (eds), Horse and rider in the late Viking Age: Equestrian burial in perspective. Papers from the international conference, Skanderborg 27-28 June 2019. Aarhus: Aarhus University Press, 83-99.

Sulas, F., Orfanou, V., Ljungberg, T., and Kristiansen, S.M. (2021). Mapping the invisible traces: Soil micromorphology at Fregerslev II. In: Pedersen, A., and Schifter Bagger M. (eds), Horse and rider in the late Viking Age: Equestrian burial in perspective. Papers from the international conference, Skanderborg 27-28 June 2019. Aarhus: Aarhus University Press, 101-112.

Kontogiannis, N.D. and Orfanou, V. (2019). The Chalcis Treasure: a 14th-15th century hoard from Euboea, Greece – first thoughts and preliminary results. New Research on Late Byzantine Goldsmiths’ Works (13th-15th Centuries). Byzanz zwischen Orient und Okzident 13, 115-125.

Theodoropoulou-Polychroniadis, Z., and Orfanou, V. (2019). Copper-based offerings from the sanctuaries of Poseidon and Athena at Sounion, Attica: typological and analytical investigation. In: Baas, Ph. (ed.), Proceedings of the XXth International Congress on Ancient Bronzes: Resource, Reconstruction, Representation, Role (17-21 April, 2018), University of Tübingen, Germany. Oxford: BAR Publishing, 331-344.

Orfanou, V. and Birch, T. (2018). Viking-age metals and urbanisation: the case of Ribe in Denmark. In: Raja, R. and Sindbæk, S., Urban Network Evolutions. Towards a high-definition archaeology. Aarhus: Aarhus University Press, 189-195.

Birch, T. and Orfanou, V. (2018). Small change in big cities: characterising the development of everyday coinage in Jerash. In: Raja, R. and Sindbæk, S., Urban Network Evolutions. Towards a high-definition archaeology. Aarhus: Aarhus University Press, 117-12.

Orfanou, V. (2015). Early Iron Age Greece, ancient Pherae and the archaeometallurgy of copper. In: Z. Theodoropoulou Polychroniadis and D. Evely, eds. AEGIS. Essays in Mediterranean Archaeology presented to Matti Egon by the scholars of the Greek Archaeological Committee UK. Oxford: Archaeopress, 107–116.

Orfanou, V. (2015). Divine Bronze: Investigating Early Iron Age copper-based production in Thessaly. In: Proceedings of the 4th Archaeological work in Thessaly and Central Greece, Volos 2012 Volos: Ministry of Culture; University of Thessaly, 201–207.

Orfanou, V., Doulgeri-Intzesiloglou, A., and Arachoviti, P. (2014). Archaeometric investigation of copper-based fibulae from the Enodia sanctuary at ancient Pherae: preliminary results [in Greek]. In: D. Karamberopoulos, ed. Hypereia 6, Vol A. Volos: Epistimoniki Etaireia Meletis Feron-Velestinou-Riga, 213–222.

Orfanou, V., The technology of Venetian and Byzantine goldsmith workshops as seen in the Chalcis Treasure, contribution in Kontogiannis, N.D. (In prep), Goldsmiths, Merchants and Bankers in the Late Medieval Mediterranean: The evidence from the Chalcis Treasure.

Contributor in volume
Collinet, A. and Bourgarit, D. (authors), el Morr, Z., and Orfanou, V. (contributors) (2021). Précieuses matières. Les Arts du métal dans le monde iranien médiéval. Volume I, Xe - XIIIe siècles. Paris: Musée du Louvre Editions