entity · zone_bi_channel_atlantic
Channel and Atlantic façade interaction zone
Analytical zone linking south-west Britain, the English Channel, Atlantic France and wider Atlantic exchange.
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.
1600 BCE–800 BCE
Precision: broad archaeological range
- informs · defines or contextualizes
Claimed by the Sea: Salcombe, Langdon Bay, and Other Marine Finds of the Bronze Age — Stuart Needham, David Parham, Catherine Frieman (2013)Publishes and compares Salcombe, Langdon Bay and related marine assemblages while examining wreck, loss and deliberate-deposition alternatives.
Locator: Chapters on Salcombe, Langdon Bay and interpretive synthesis - informs · defines or contextualizes
The Salcombe metal cargoes: New light on the provenance and circulation of tin and copper in Later Bronze Age Europe provided by trace elements and isotopes — Daniel Berger, Quanyu Wang, Gerhard Brügmann, Nicole Lockhoff, Benjamin W. Roberts, Ernst Pernicka (2022)Reanalyses the large Salcombe copper and tin assemblages using trace elements and isotopes to evaluate provenance and circulation.
Locator: Abstract; archaeological objects; analytical results; discussion and conclusions - informs · defines or contextualizes
The Dover Bronze Age Boat in Context: Society and Water Transport in Prehistoric Europe — Peter Clark (2005)Places the c. 1550 BCE Dover sewn-plank boat within European water-transport traditions.
Locator: Entire article; dating and contextual discussion
Research description
Used to organize boats, wreck-like assemblages, ingots and typological comparisons. It does not imply continuous direct voyages between every endpoint or a single commercial system.
Properties and assignments
A label’s definition and the evidence for assigning it here are separate.
Research reconstruction, not a border
A mapped polygon represents an analytical distribution or interaction zone, not a surveyed frontier.
Why does this record have this property?
The associated polygon is a generalized analytical distribution or interaction envelope and must not be displayed as a political boundary.
- Claimed by the Sea: Salcombe, Langdon Bay, and Other Marine Finds of the Bronze Age
supports assignment · Chapters on Salcombe, Langdon Bay and interpretive synthesis - The Salcombe metal cargoes: New light on the provenance and circulation of tin and copper in Later Bronze Age Europe provided by trace elements and isotopes
supports assignment · Abstract; archaeological objects; analytical results; discussion and conclusions
Evidence and sources
- supports · defines or contextualizes
Claimed by the Sea: Salcombe, Langdon Bay, and Other Marine Finds of the Bronze Age — Stuart Needham, David Parham, Catherine Frieman (2013)Publishes and compares Salcombe, Langdon Bay and related marine assemblages while examining wreck, loss and deliberate-deposition alternatives.
Locator: Chapters on Salcombe, Langdon Bay and interpretive synthesis - supports · defines or contextualizes
The Salcombe metal cargoes: New light on the provenance and circulation of tin and copper in Later Bronze Age Europe provided by trace elements and isotopes — Daniel Berger, Quanyu Wang, Gerhard Brügmann, Nicole Lockhoff, Benjamin W. Roberts, Ernst Pernicka (2022)Reanalyses the large Salcombe copper and tin assemblages using trace elements and isotopes to evaluate provenance and circulation.
Locator: Abstract; archaeological objects; analytical results; discussion and conclusions - supports · defines or contextualizes
The Dover Bronze Age Boat in Context: Society and Water Transport in Prehistoric Europe — Peter Clark (2005)Places the c. 1550 BCE Dover sewn-plank boat within European water-transport traditions.
Locator: Entire article; dating and contextual discussion
Referenced records
- Geography assertion for zone_bi_channel_atlantic · geography assertion