Re: Bronze Age in the Baltic


"deowll" <deowll@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> schrieb im Newsbeitrag
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"Uwe Müller" <uwemueller@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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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.


I think the amber was coming down the Danube. This has been a major trade
route from way back that seems to have been just a little to for outside
the
classic world for us to understand the way we would like to.

The amber was coming from the Baltic shore (inclusions of amber carrying
blueish clays are known from as far south as the town of Eberswalde,
location of a spectacular find of golden vessels from the late Bronze Age).
From the Prignitz it would move southwest to the river Rhine or southeast to
the river Danube, to be further distributed.

There are plenty of areas on the coast of the North Sea, where amber can be
gathered after storms, but I don't know if it was enough to trade for the
metal lacking in these areas.

The Prignitz region may well have been a late Bronze age center of
distribution, acquiring amber from the north, metals from the east and west
and luxury goods from the south, providing transport and security for the
traders.

It is the only region where spectacular burials attest to changes in the
social and economic background, AFAIK, especially if compared to the
'normal' burials of the times.

snip >

have fun

Uwe Mueller



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