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Oxhide ingots in the European North?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  30 January 2015

Anthony Harding
Anthony Harding*
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Department of Archaeology, University of Exeter, Laver Building, North Park Road, Exeter EX4 4QE, UK
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The above paper by Ling and Stos-Gale raises interesting questions about the extent and effects of trans-continental trade and travel in the Bronze Age. Of course, there is nothing new in the suggestion that Scandinavia was closely linked to the eastern Mediterranean in this period: Kristian Kristiansen, and before him Jan Bouzek, Klavs Randsborg and Peter Schauer have been saying just that for many years (e.g. Bouzek 1966; Randsborg 1967; Schauer 1985; Kristiansen 1994). What is new is the two-fold suggestion that metal was travelling from the Mediterranean to Scandinavia, as shown by metal analysis, and that this is reflected in the rock art by what are presented here as depictions of oxhide ingots.

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Antiquity , Volume 89 , Issue 343 , February 2015 , pp. 213 - 214
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Copyright © Antiquity Publications Ltd., 2015 

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