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What if there's no supply chain, but rather the material are recycled from whatever axes or tools which travel during wars or conflicts?
by diminish 10y ago
What if there's no supply chain, but rather the material are recycled from whatever axes or tools which travel during wars or conflicts?
- PhasmaFelis 10y agoThere probably wouldn't be as many carvings of Mediterranean ships delivering copper ingots lying around Sweden, for one thing.
- boxy310 10y agoThird paragraph in the article states that Nordic amber was heavily prized in Mycenaean Greece. Distances and climate in Europe are actually quite reasonable for overland journeys, especially considering that the ancient empires of the Middle East interacted in a substantial way for several millennia despite being much farther than a Greece-Sweden transit.
- iaw 10y agoI thought the shipwreck full of Copper ingots heavily implied trade.
- InclinedPlane 10y agoWe already know the supply chain existed, this is not a surprise.