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

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.