claim · claim_lead_isotopes_not_political_control
Lead-isotope compatibility can constrain ore-source hypotheses but cannot identify the ruler, workshop, shipment owner, route, or political system that moved copper.
Lead-isotope compatibility can constrain ore-source hypotheses but cannot identify the ruler, workshop, shipment owner, route, or political system that moved copper.
Review and provenance
Specialist reviewer: not recorded. Review date: not recorded.
Dataset workflow: proposed. This is separate from specialist review.
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Evidence and sources
Supporting sources
- supports · supports and qualifies
The Role of the Apliki Mine Region in the Post-c. 1400 BC Copper Production and Trade Networks of Cyprus — Noel H. Gale, Zofia A. Stos-Gale (2012)Provides a strong provenance model and its assumptions.
Locator: Apliki source-region analysis - supports · provides source criticism
The Production and Trade of Cypriot Copper in the Late Bronze Age: An Analysis of the Evidence — Vasiliki Kassianidou (2013)Separates source attribution from organization.
Locator: Provenance and trade synthesis - supports · provides comparative method
Lead Isotopic Analysis for the Identification of Late Bronze Age Pottery from Hala Sultan Tekke (Cyprus) — Virginie Renson, Jan Coenaerts, Karin Nys, Nadine Mattielli, Frank Vanhaecke, Nathalie Fagel, Philippe Claeys (2011)Illustrates that geochemical attribution needs contextual controls.
Locator: Lead-isotope pottery study
Contradicting sources
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Referenced records
- Uluburun shipwreck · entity
- Apliki-Karamallos · entity
- Solea copper axis · entity