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| Tango01 | 03 Feb 2020 1:05 p.m. PST |
… metal provenance, and mixing. "The geographic origins of the metals in Scandinavian mixed-metal artifacts reveal a crucial dependency on British and continental European trading sources during the beginnings of the Nordic Bronze Age, according to a study published July 24, 2019 in the open-access journal PLOS ONE by Heide W. Nørgaard from Aarhus University, Denmark, and colleagues. 2000-1700BC marks the earliest Nordic Bronze Age, when the use and availability of metal—specifically tin and copper, which when alloyed together creates bronze—increased drastically in Scandinavia. The authors performed isotope and trace-element analyses on 210 Bronze Age artifact samples, predominantly axeheads, originally collected in Denmark and representing almost 50% of all known existing Danish metal objects from this period…"
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