causal hypothesis · hyp_network_disruption_reduced_bulk_copper_exports
Network disruption reduced bulk copper exports
Breakdown and reconfiguration of palace, port, credit, shipping, and diplomatic networks reduced the viability of large oxhide-ingot export cargoes after the thirteenth century BCE.
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Breakdown and reconfiguration of palace, port, credit, shipping, and diplomatic networks reduced the viability of large oxhide-ingot export cargoes after the thirteenth century BCE.Evidence and sources
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- informs · supports
The Production and Trade of Cypriot Copper in the Late Bronze Age: An Analysis of the Evidence — Vasiliki Kassianidou (2013)Reviews production and export evidence.
Locator: Copper trade transition - informs · provides earlier comparator
The Uluburun Shipwreck and Late Bronze Age Trade — Cemal Pulak (2008)Documents the earlier bulk system.
Locator: Large fourteenth-century cargo - informs · provides transition comparator
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 changed shipborne metal organization.
Locator: Scrap-rich cargo around 1200 BCE - informs · contextualizes
The Calm Before the Storm: Selected Writings of Itamar Singer on the Late Bronze Age in Anatolia and the Levant — Itamar Singer (2011)Documents external network disruption.
Locator: Late eastern Mediterranean political crisis