property · PROP-LONG-DISTANCE-METAL-NETWORK
Long-distance metal network
Participation in the extraction, movement, exchange, or consumption of metals across very large distances.
Review and provenance
Specialist reviewer: not recorded. Review date: not recorded.
Dataset workflow: not recorded. This is separate from specialist review.
Confidence describes the stated assessment; it does not certify expert approval. How review works.
Research description
The property can be attached to sources, ports, shipwrecks, polities, and regions, with temporally bounded and source-specific assignments.
Evidence and sources
- informs · provides archaeometallurgical evidence
From Land's End to the Levant: did Britain's tin sources transform the Bronze Age in Europe and the Mediterranean? — R. Alan Williams, Benjamin W. Roberts, and collaborators (2025)