Why Central Asia's Mushiston is not a source for the Late Bronze Age tin ingots from the Uluburun shipwreck

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Frontiers in Earth Science, vol. 11, 1211478

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• relationship Mushiston mining and smelting zone — provenance rejected for — Kadesh and the middle Orontes
  Evidence confidence: ◈ high
  informs · contradicts · Full provenance comparison

  Rejects the attribution.

• claim Current isotopic evidence does not support Mushiston as the source of the Uluburun shipwreck tin.
  Evidence confidence: ◈ high
  supports · contradicts · Isotopic and geological comparison

  Directly rejects the provenance attribution.