Thread 17924422

We still don't know how Bronze Age Civilizations got the tin they needed to make bronze.

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>>17924422 (OP)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tin#History

>>17924425
Retard

So much out here that they will never tell us about

Cornwall. There. Easy.

>>17924450
That makes no sense

OP is a schizo who believes it's aliens fyi.

>>17924431
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2019/09/190913120830.htm

>>17924454
How does it not make sense anon?

Aliens.

>>17924467
How did fucking Phoenicians even know what the British isles were? Did they personally go there and mine it?

>>17924422 (OP)
There was a ton of tin ore sitting around if you knew where to look. Bronze Age people were at least smart enough to understand that they could melt the shiny stuff in rocks and mix them in different proportions.
Iron smelting is the bigger question since it's not an obvious process at all.

i dunno

>>17924501
>>17924422 (OP)
>"hey traders, we need more of this shinny metal to make bronze"
>"bet"
>sail and travel to know sources of tin
>ask locals in they know where more is
>slowly expand and establish trade routes
>locals near sources start mining operations
>trade expands further as word of this market spreads
>repeat
its not complicated, idk why people think folks thousands of years ago were incapable of understanding geography and conducting basic trade

>>17924422 (OP)
Afghanistan

>>17924533
The British Isles were a backwater with barely any people there at the time

>>17924782
NTA but how does that change anything?

You can make bronze from arsenic rather than tin.

>>17924790
Why were the Cornish such irrelevant hicks if they controlled the world tin supply, and why didn’t the big civilizations constantly jostle for control over cornwall?

I gave it to them.

>>17924422 (OP)
it came from an area in Iraq or Mesopotamia the only place where it was found during these early civilizations. Here's a reconstruction of a ship from the time carrying copper and tin, 10 to 1 copper and tin and other wares and goods.

>>17924507
>Iron smelting is the bigger question since it's not an obvious process at all
I'd like to believe that some ancient smith got a little too drunk on fermented horsemilk or whatever and let the forge get too hot. A seemingly insignificant druk oopsie changed the world forever.