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Document Details : Title: A Bronze Age 'Metal-Road' to Eastern Thrace? Author(s): DE BOER, J.G. Journal: Ancient West & East Volume: 1 Issue: 2 Date: 2002 Pages: 443-454 DOI: 10.2143/AWE.1.2.3291996 Abstract : Trade in metals was an essential aspect of the economy of Bronze Age societies. In the Aegean, raw copper was traded mostly in the form of the so-called ox-hide ingots, and such an item was found in Eastern Thrace, probably mined and melted in the Strandzja Mountains. There are several archaeological and epigraphic indications that metal mined there was transported via the Maritsa river to the Aegean over a period of 700 years in the Late Bronze and Early Iron Age. |
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