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Cassiterides tin-islands tradition
Also known as: Tin Islands, Cassiterides
Classical-period literary geographic tradition concerning western tin sources, included as a later interpretive context for Bronze Age tin-route debates.
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.
500 BCE–400 BCE
Precision: approximate
- informs · provides primary evidence
Histories 3.115: the Cassiterides and tin — HerodotusRecords Herodotus’s uncertainty about the islands and tin source.
Locator: Histories 3.115 - informs · contextualizes
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 modern provenance evidence that must remain distinct from the literary tradition.
Locator: pp. 708–726
Research description
It is outside the primary interval and does not provide Bronze Age coordinates, a fixed polygon or a direct itinerary.
Properties and assignments
A label’s definition and the evidence for assigning it here are separate.
Literary tradition, not an excavated event date
A later text or tradition refers to an earlier event but does not date it archaeologically.
Why does this record have this property?
Herodotus is evidence for Classical uncertainty, not a Bronze Age route map.
- Histories 3.115: the Cassiterides and tin
supports assignment and caveat · Histories 3.115
Object provenance does not identify a route
Material origin and movement mechanism are separate claims.
Why does this record have this property?
Neither automatically specifies a direct Atlantic itinerary.
- 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 · provides primary evidence
Histories 3.115: the Cassiterides and tin — HerodotusRecords Herodotus’s uncertainty about the islands and tin source.
Locator: Histories 3.115 - supports · contextualizes
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 modern provenance evidence that must remain distinct from the literary tradition.
Locator: pp. 708–726