Re: Bronze Age in the Baltic

On Wed, 28 Jun 2006 08:23:18 +0200, "Uwe Müller"
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"Steve Marcus" <smarcus_spamout_@xxxxxxx> schrieb im Newsbeitrag
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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

Than there is the central European Ore mountains with early mining and
exports, the Balkans, Italy, ... And they did not only have to supply the
Baltic area but the whole of the Nordic culture too, as there is no sign of
metal production except for the island of Helgoland.

That's interesting. My correspondent won't like the idea but it does
tie in with an unwanted variant of his theory. :-)

Given established cultural contacts and lines of communication along rivers
the nearest area supplying copper would have been the Ore Mountains.

I presume the copper would be transported as ingots with the final
manufacture of bronze taking place elsewhere.



Eric Stevens

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