relationship · rel_bi_great_orme_gradual_counters_collapse
rel_bi_great_orme_gradual_counters_collapse
Great Orme's earlier decline and later continuation fail the narrow synchronism predicted by a single 1200 BCE shock.
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Research description
Great Orme's earlier decline and later continuation fail the narrow synchronism predicted by a single 1200 BCE shock.
Evidence and sources
- supports · supports relationship
Boom and bust in Bronze Age Britain: major copper production from the Great Orme mine and European trade, c. 1600–1400 BC — R. Alan Williams, Cécile Le Carlier de Veslud (2019)Integrates mine chronology, ore characterisation, metal analyses and production estimates to argue for a major Great Orme production peak and wide circulation.
Locator: Abstract; The Great Orme copper mine; Discussion; Conclusions; Figures 2 and 9
Referenced records
- Reduced but continued Great Orme mining · event
- Synchronous 1200 BCE collapse or invasion model · causal hypothesis