entity · arch_iberia1_atlantic_bronze_age_model
Atlantic Bronze Age network model
Also known as: Atlantic Bronze Age
Modern model for overlapping metalwork, maritime and exchange networks along Atlantic façades.
Review and provenance
Specialist reviewer: not recorded. Review date: not recorded.
Dataset workflow: proposed. This is separate from specialist review.
Confidence describes the stated assessment; it does not certify expert approval. How review works.
Chronology
Dating intervals may describe uncertainty or phases; their width alone does not establish event duration.
1300 BCE–800 BCE
Precision: approximate
- informs · proposes interpretation
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)Provides provenance-led long-distance network arguments.
Locator: pp. 708–726 - informs · provides archaeological observation
Los depósitos de la ría de Huelva: en busca del barco perdido — Jesús M. Fernández Rodríguez (2014)Provides a major Atlantic-facing deposition case.
Locator: Ría de Huelva assemblage discussion - informs · provides archaeological observation
Langdon Bay, National Heritage List for England entry 1000059 — Historic England (2017)Provides a Channel maritime assemblage with explicit alternatives.
Locator: List entry 1000059
Research description
The model is not an ancient identity or unified “Atlantic people.” Similar objects may reflect multi-stage circulation, recycling, imitation and shared technical practices.
Properties and assignments
A label’s definition and the evidence for assigning it here are separate.
Modern analytical model
A modern explanatory or network model rather than an ancient entity.
Why does this record have this property?
It is not an ancient Atlantic identity or state.
- From Land's End to the Levant: did Britain's tin sources transform the Bronze Age in Europe and the Mediterranean?
supports assignment and caveat · pp. 708–726
Object provenance does not identify a route
Material origin and movement mechanism are separate claims.
Why does this record have this property?
Multi-stage exchange, recycling and movement through intermediaries remain possible.
- From Land's End to the Levant: did Britain's tin sources transform the Bronze Age in Europe and the Mediterranean?
supports assignment and caveat · pp. 708–726
Evidence and sources
- supports · proposes interpretation
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)Provides provenance-led long-distance network arguments.
Locator: pp. 708–726 - supports · provides archaeological observation
Los depósitos de la ría de Huelva: en busca del barco perdido — Jesús M. Fernández Rodríguez (2014)Provides a major Atlantic-facing deposition case.
Locator: Ría de Huelva assemblage discussion - supports · provides archaeological observation
Langdon Bay, National Heritage List for England entry 1000059 — Historic England (2017)Provides a Channel maritime assemblage with explicit alternatives.
Locator: List entry 1000059