Late Bronze Age trade in glass beads between Egypt, Mesopotamia & Denmark, c.1400-1100 BC https://www.academia.edu/10159599/Between_Egypt_Mesopotamia_and_Scandinavia_Late_Bronze_Age_glass_beads_found_in_Denmark …pic.twitter.com/05rjktSwGe
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Also of interest? 'The Nordic razor and the Mycenaean lifestyle': http://www.thefreelibrary.com/The+Nordic+razor+and+the+Mycenaean+lifestyle.-a0334944176 … & http://journals.cambridge.org/action/displayAbstract?fromPage=online&aid=9423881&fileId=S0003598X00049061 …pic.twitter.com/zoK02C0ZlS
@caitlinrgreen also - Cornish tin to trade for these luxury goods?
@littlerobbergrl Yes, def seems to be case---funny how interpretations move around, no? Theories once rejected by researchers now restored!
@caitlinrgreen I think the idea our ancestors slow homebodies still hangs on. For 100k years folk just as smart as us, and had boats :)
@littlerobbergrl Absolutely! Plus we (archaeologists) all kinda went off the idea of migration for a bit, post-WWII etc! Now, though....
@caitlinrgreen I think general rule is if humans can possibly go somewhere or do something, they will. Because we can :)
A tin ring made from pure Cornish tin, dated c.950-700 BC & found at Vårdinge, Sweden... :) https://www.academia.edu/10144668/Moving_metals_II_provenancing_Scandinavian_Bronze_Age_artefacts_by_lead_isotope_and_elemental_analyses …pic.twitter.com/7ZYY2noRb9
The Nebra sky disk of c.1600 BC; found nr Nebra, Germany & made using Cornish tin+gold https://www.researchgate.net/publication/229484698_Tin_Isotopy-A_New_Method_for_Solving_Old_Questions … (pic=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nebra_sky_disk …)pic.twitter.com/wihoYkWlmz
Went to a lecture by Gregor Borg about it last yr, way he communicated how they figured Cornish and othr origins v impressive
yes, isotope analysis is so interesting and really adds to our understanding, fabulous work!
Evidence from 10th-3rdC BC cemetery in Kent for presence of Scandinavian migrants in Britain discussed here :)https://twitter.com/caitlinrgreen/status/686633946633875456 …
Further suggestions of Thanet as key Bronze Age maritime trading centre, w/ people from Scand+N Africa meeting therehttps://www.academia.edu/12497151/Rock_art_and_Metal_Trade …
@caitlinrgreen I first read that as the marmite trade
@caitlinrgreen I like how everything is completely passing by the Low Countries. It really was wet and miserable here back then. (still is).
@MariusHollenga Hah! It does look like that! But there was def some trading and links :) https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=-6ymAwAAQBAJ&lpg=PT239&pg=PT236#v=onepage&q&f=false …
@caitlinrgreen Makes sense, I do know that trading really intensified in late antiquity/early medieval period. Many coin hoards.
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