Re: Bronze Age in the Baltic


"Eric Stevens" <eric.stevens@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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On Tue, 27 Jun 2006 19:07:01 -0400, "Steve Marcus"
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"Eric Stevens" <eric.stevens@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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On Tue, 27 Jun 2006 12:35:04 +0200, "Uwe Müller"
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"Eric Stevens" <eric.stevens@xxxxxxxxx> schrieb im Newsbeitrag
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On Mon, 26 Jun 2006 08:02:56 +0200, "Uwe Müller"
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"Eric Stevens" <eric.stevens@xxxxxxxxx> schrieb im Newsbeitrag
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An aquaintance has referred interesting theory to me, which may
stand
or fall on the basis of archaeological evidence for Bronze Age
manufacture and trading in the Baltic. Unfortunately I don't know
enough about this to form an opinion.

Can anyone tell me if:

a) There is evidence of a significant Bronze Age centre of metal
working or trading in any particular part of the Baltic. The
relevant
metals are (obviously) copper, tin and possibly zinc.

There is a centre of very rich burials in a region that otherwise
knows
little differences in burial goods. It is supposed to have been
situated
at
the crossroads of the amber and copper trade.

Is this the centre you are referring to below or is it somewhere else?

The location was asked for in question b), so I gave the location there.

snip >

Whatever the theory may be, it should accomodate for the Prignitz. It
could
be made into a regional sub-centre, but than the 'real' center, on the
coast
of Finnland?, would have to show more foreign imports, greater material
wealth and more sophisticated technology.

That will be hard to match.

Those were my thoughts but then, as I said, I don't know much about
the archaeology of the area and I could well have been wrong.

I suppose an associated question is where did the copper used for
bronze in the Baltic come from in that period?

Bronze Age copper exports??

Oman and or the western coast of India:
http://tinyurl.com/jto63

From Syrian and Babylonian sources through Cyprus to the Levant:
http://tinyurl.com/jto63

If copper was exported from a place, it could have ended up in the Baltic
region as easily as it would end up in west Asia or the Levant.

Of course, mining in Cornwall goes back to the Bronze Age, and there was
copper aplenty there to export:
http://tinyurl.com/hmpwh

Wherever your correspondent's Baltic trade center imported copper from in
the Bronze Age, it need not have come from North America.

No, my question was not directed to the possibility of copper from
North America.

True, you didn't ask specifically about North America. However, your
posting history would indicate that the likelihood is that's where you're
going with this...

I'm unable toplay any further, though, so I won't.



Eric Stevens

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