Bronze Age World

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Type: scholarly book chapter
Publication: Oxbow Books
Peer reviewed: Yes

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date assertion Skouriotissa mining and slag landscape — date assertion
informs · contextualizes · Solea source-region model
Supports Late Bronze Age relevance.
relationship Skouriotissa mining and slag landscape — located within research landscape — Solea copper axis
Evidence confidence: high
informs · contextualizes · Solea source-region model
Supports Late Bronze Age relevance.
entity Skouriotissa mining and slag landscape
Evidence confidence: moderate
informs · contextualizes · Solea source-region model
Supports Late Bronze Age relevance.
date assertion Apliki-Karamallos — date assertion
informs · proposes interpretation · Apliki/Solea source model
Supports broad production significance.
date assertion Solea copper axis — date assertion
informs · proposes interpretation · Post-c. 1400 BCE source-region model
Supports the Solea/Apliki source hypothesis and its scope.
relationship Apliki-Karamallos — located within research landscape — Solea copper axis
Evidence confidence: high
informs · proposes interpretation · Apliki/Solea source model
Supports broad production significance.
entity Apliki-Karamallos
Evidence confidence: high
informs · proposes interpretation · Apliki/Solea source model
Supports broad production significance.
entity Solea copper axis
Evidence confidence: moderate
informs · proposes interpretation · Post-c. 1400 BCE source-region model
Supports the Solea/Apliki source hypothesis and its scope.
relationship Research record — associated with
Evidence confidence: high
informs · proposes provenance model · Lead-isotope discussion
Supports a major source-region hypothesis with acknowledged limits.
event Late Bronze Age mining settlement at Apliki-Karamallos
Evidence confidence: high
informs · proposes provenance model · Lead-isotope discussion
Supports a major source-region hypothesis with acknowledged limits.
relationship Research record — associated with
Evidence confidence: high
informs · proposes provenance model · Lead-isotope discussion
Supports a major source-region hypothesis with acknowledged limits.
relationship Late Bronze Age mining settlement at Apliki-Karamallos — occurred at or affected — Apliki-Karamallos
Evidence confidence: high
informs · proposes provenance model · Lead-isotope discussion
Supports a major source-region hypothesis with acknowledged limits.
relationship Late Bronze Age mining settlement at Apliki-Karamallos — occurred at or affected — Solea copper axis
Evidence confidence: high
informs · proposes provenance model · Lead-isotope discussion
Supports a major source-region hypothesis with acknowledged limits.
date assertion Late Bronze Age mining settlement at Apliki-Karamallos — date assertion
Evidence confidence: high
informs · proposes provenance model · Lead-isotope discussion
Supports a major source-region hypothesis with acknowledged limits.
date assertion Uluburun shipwreck — date assertion
informs · provides provenance model · Lead-isotope source attribution
Supports Cyprus/Solea source arguments with caveats.
entity Uluburun shipwreck
Evidence confidence: very high
informs · provides provenance model · Lead-isotope source attribution
Supports Cyprus/Solea source arguments with caveats.
property assignment Apliki-Karamallos — has evidence classification — Inland production node
Evidence confidence: very high
informs · supports assignment · Apliki production-region model
Household and mining evidence show an inland community within the copper supply chain.
geography assertion Solea copper axis — geography assertion
informs · supports reconstruction · Apliki and north-west production-region model
Schematic subregional envelope connecting Apliki, Skouriotissa, ore bodies, routes, and slag landscapes. It does not identify a controlled mining concession.
claim The Apliki–Solea region was an important copper source, but current evidence does not establish it as the exclusive source of all post-1400 BCE Cypriot copper exports.
Evidence confidence: moderate
supports · proposes interpretation · Apliki source model
Provides the strongest single-region argument.
claim Strontium, oxygen, lead, or other isotope values can investigate mobility or material provenance but do not encode ethnicity, language, political identity, or a named ancient pe…
Evidence confidence: near certain
supports · supports · Copper lead-isotope analysis
Shows geochemical source modeling.
claim Lead-isotope compatibility can constrain ore-source hypotheses but cannot identify the ruler, workshop, shipment owner, route, or political system that moved copper.
Evidence confidence: near certain
supports · supports and qualifies · Apliki source-region analysis
Provides a strong provenance model and its assumptions.