Tin from Uluburun shipwreck shows small-scale commodity exchange fueled continental tin supply across Late Bronze Age Eurasia. [PDF]
This paper provides the first comprehensive sourcing analysis of the tin ingots carried by the well-known Late Bronze Age shipwreck found off the Turkish coast at Uluburun (ca. 1320 BCE).
Powell W +9 more
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Work on the cutting edge: metallographic investigation of Late Bronze Age tools in southeastern Lower Austria. [PDF]
This paper analyses 20 Late Bronze Age (ca 1080–800 BC) copper alloy objects to discern their manufacture and the skills of local craftsmen. Several tools and jewellery were studied that originated from a bronze workshop located immediately next to the ...
Mödlinger M, Trebsche P.
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Testing Late Bronze Age mobility in southern Sweden in the light of a new multi-proxy strontium isotope baseline of Scania. [PDF]
The Bronze Age of Sweden’s southernmost region, Scania, is complex and intriguing. One could say that Scania represented in many ways a gateway for people, ideas and material culture connecting continental Europe with Sweden.
Ladegaard-Pedersen P +4 more
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Late Bronze Age Metal Exploitation and Trade: Sardinia and Cyprus [PDF]
Since the 1980s, extensive archeological studies have provided us with knowledge about the multifaceted relations between Nuragic Sardinia and Bronze Age Cyprus.
Serena Sabatini, Fulvia Lo Schiavo
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Late Bronze Age climate change and the destruction of the Mycenaean Palace of Nestor at Pylos. [PDF]
This paper offers new high-resolution oxygen and carbon isotope data from Stalagmite S1 from Mavri Trypa Cave, SW Peloponnese. Our data provide the climate background to the destruction of the nearby Mycenaean Palace of Nestor at Pylos at the transition ...
Finné M +5 more
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Isotope systematics and chemical composition of tin ingots from Mochlos (Crete) and other Late Bronze Age sites in the eastern Mediterranean Sea: An ultimate key to tin provenance? [PDF]
The origin of the tin used for the production of bronze in the Eurasian Bronze Age is still one of the mysteries in prehistoric archaeology. In the past, numerous studies were carried out on archaeological bronze and tin objects with the aim of ...
Berger D +6 more
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Egyptian words in the Late Bronze Age Levant
Cultural encounters often result in the borrowing of words between the communities involved. This words, in turn, preserve precious clues about the nature and characteristics of the interactions underlying their transfer, and can thus be a precious (but ...
Marwan Kilani
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Large-scale migration into Britain during the Middle to Late Bronze Age. [PDF]
Patterson N +222 more
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Tooth oxygen isotopes reveal Late Bronze Age origin of Mediterranean fish aquaculture and trade. [PDF]
Past fish provenance, exploitation and trade patterns were studied by analyzing phosphate oxygen isotope compositions (δ18OPO4) of gilthead seabream (Sparus aurata) tooth enameloid from archaeological sites across the southern Levant, spanning the entire
Guy SV +7 more
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Towards reconstruction of the lost Late Bronze Age intra-caldera island of Santorini, Greece. [PDF]
During the Late Bronze Age, the island of Santorini had a semi-closed caldera harbour inherited from the 22 ka Cape Riva Plinian eruption, and a central island referred to as ‘Pre-Kameni’ after the present-day Kameni Islands.
Karátson D +7 more
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