event · evt_oxhide_ingot_export_contraction
Contraction of the oxhide-ingot export system
The highly visible Late Bronze Age system of large oxhide-ingot cargoes diminished after the thirteenth century, while copper working and shorter-range circulation continued.
What is the evidence?
observation
The highly visible Late Bronze Age system of large oxhide-ingot cargoes diminished after the thirteenth century, while copper working and shorter-range circulation continued.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.
1225 BCE–1100 BCE
Precision: approximate
moderatePreferred display range for this event. It preserves positive BCE ordering and does not suppress narrower contexts or alternative chronology models.
- informs · provides metallurgical synthesis
The Production and Trade of Cypriot Copper in the Late Bronze Age: An Analysis of the Evidence — Vasiliki Kassianidou (2013)Reviews changing export evidence.
Locator: Copper production and trade transition - informs · provides comparative cargo evidence
The Uluburun Shipwreck and Late Bronze Age Trade — Cemal Pulak (2008)Documents the earlier large-cargo system.
Locator: Uluburun ingot cargo
Interpretation and caveats
The change reflects transformation of cargo form and exchange organization, not proof that mining stopped or that one political system collapsed everywhere at once.
Event context
Classification
Event type: exchange and cargo system contraction
Evidence layer: archaeological
Timeline role: regional core
People and places
Locations: Cyprus eastern Mediterranean maritime interaction zone, Troodos copper ore and slag landscapes
Why it matters to the timeline
Directly reconstructs a Cypriot site, landscape, institution, community, or chronological transition within the primary interval.
Research notes
- Reviews changing export evidence. Role: provides metallurgical synthesis. Locator: Copper production and trade transition.
- Documents the earlier large-cargo system. Role: provides comparative cargo evidence. Locator: Uluburun ingot cargo.
- Shows a different shipborne metal assemblage. Role: provides comparative cargo evidence. Locator: Scrap and ingot cargo around 1200 BCE.
Evidence and sources
- informs · provides metallurgical synthesis
The Production and Trade of Cypriot Copper in the Late Bronze Age: An Analysis of the Evidence — Vasiliki Kassianidou (2013)Reviews changing export evidence.
Locator: Copper production and trade transition - informs · provides comparative cargo evidence
The Uluburun Shipwreck and Late Bronze Age Trade — Cemal Pulak (2008)Documents the earlier large-cargo system.
Locator: Uluburun ingot cargo - informs · provides comparative cargo evidence
Cape Gelidonya: A Bronze Age Shipwreck — George F. Bass, Peter Throckmorton, Joan du Plat Taylor, J. B. Hennessy, Alan R. Shulman, Hans-Günter Buchholz (1967)Shows a different shipborne metal assemblage.
Locator: Scrap and ingot cargo around 1200 BCE