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comment by NikolaiFyodorov
NikolaiFyodorov  ·  251 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: This Was Village Life in Britain 3,000 Years Ago

Wild that trade networks in the British Isles extended at least as far as Iran even then.





sogre  ·  251 days ago  ·  link  ·  

To this day, there are substantial tin deposits in Cornwall, exploited almost continuously since the early British bronze age around 2000 BCE. There's isotope ratio-based evidence they were amongst the suppliers to both Cyprus and Anatolia up until the bronze age collapse around 1200 BCE, and it's a well established possibility that their reach extended farther and earlier than that.