A new study published in the journal Antiquity unveiled that large amounts of Bronze Age tin may have originated from Cornwall and Devon in southwest Britain, where the richest and most accessible ...

The origin of the tin used in the Bronze Age has long been one ... identify the origin of tin metal for the first time and therefore give rise to new insights and questions for archaeological ...

Roughly 3,650 to 3,200 years ago, herders and villagers who mined tin ore fueled long-distance supply chains that transported the metal from ... Late Bronze Age. Despite the new evidence ...

“Purification of smelted copper was not practised until the sixteenth to seventeenth century AD; therefore, in the Bronze Age the purity of the extracted metal depended entirely on the type of ...

Mankind began to throw away its stone weapons and tools - the Bronze Age had begun ... Come the 19th Century, the metal found a new incarnation in the eponymous "tin" can. In fact, right from ...

During the Late Bronze Age ... at New York University and a professor of archaeology at the University of Chicago, was part of a research team in the 1990s that performed the first lead isotope ...

The origin of the tin used in the Bronze Age has long been one ... identify the origin of tin metal for the first time and therefore give rise to new insights and questions for archaeological ...

Mankind began to throw away its stone weapons and tools - the Bronze Age had begun ... Come the 19th Century, the metal found a new incarnation in the eponymous "tin" can. In fact, right from ...