Tin from Uluburun Shipwreck Shows Small-Scale Commodity Exchange Fueled Continental Tin Supply across Late Bronze Age Eurasia

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Science Advances, vol. 8, no. 48, eabq3766

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• claim A richly laden merchant vessel sank off the Anatolian coast, preserving evidence for wide-ranging Late Bronze Age exchange.
  Evidence confidence: ◈ high
  informs · establishes

  Supports the claim: A richly laden merchant vessel sank off the Anatolian coast, preserving evidence for wide-ranging Late Bronze Age exchange.

• event Loss of the Uluburun Ship
  Evidence confidence: ◈ high
  informs · provides dataset · tin-ingot analyses

  Source relationship recorded for Loss of the Uluburun Ship.

• date assertion Loss of the Uluburun Ship — date assertion
  Evidence confidence: ◈ high
  informs · provides dataset · tin-ingot analyses
• property assignment Bronze-Metal Exchange Networks — has property — Systemic Network Vulnerability
  Evidence confidence: ◈ moderate
  supports · supports assignment

  Resource specialization and long-distance procurement created potential bottlenecks, but local substitution and recycling must also be considered.

• property assignment Bronze-Metal Exchange Networks — is a — Resource Network
  Evidence confidence: ◈ very high
  supports · supports assignment

  The network moved copper, tin, finished metal, and weighing practices between distant regions.

• property assignment Bronze-Metal Exchange Networks — has property — Long-Distance Trade
  Evidence confidence: ◈ very high
  supports · supports assignment

  Shipwreck cargoes, metal provenance, and shared weighing systems demonstrate long-distance exchange.

• property assignment Uluburun Shipwreck Cargo — has property — Resource Network
  Evidence confidence: ◈ high
  supports · supports assignment

  The cargo physically documents circulation of copper, tin, glass, luxury goods, and manufactured objects.

• property assignment Uluburun Shipwreck Cargo — has property — Long-Distance Trade
  Evidence confidence: ◈ high
  supports · supports assignment

  The assemblage combines materials and objects originating across multiple regions.

• property assignment Loss of the Uluburun Ship — has classification — Contextual Event
  Evidence confidence: ◈ high
  supports · supports assignment

  This event is included to reconstruct the wider contemporary system or later memory layer without presuming direct causation.

• entity Bronze-Metal Exchange Networks
  Evidence confidence: ◈ high
  supports · supports entity record

  Supports the existence, description, classification, or historical context of Bronze-Metal Exchange Networks.

• entity Uluburun Shipwreck Cargo
  Evidence confidence: ◈ high
  supports · supports entity record

  Supports the existence, description, classification, or historical context of Uluburun Shipwreck Cargo.

• causal hypothesis Economic and Exchange-Network Cascade
  supports · supports model component

  Supports one or more evidential components of Economic and Exchange-Network Cascade.

• property Long-Distance Trade
  supports · supports property definition

  Supports the definition or scholarly use of the property Long-Distance Trade.

• property Resource Network
  supports · supports property definition

  Supports the definition or scholarly use of the property Resource Network.

• relationship Loss of the Uluburun Ship — occurred in — Eastern Mediterranean
  Evidence confidence: ◈ high
  supports · supports relationship

  Loss of the Uluburun Ship is geographically assigned to Eastern Mediterranean.

• relationship Late Bronze Age International System — participated in — Loss of the Uluburun Ship
  Evidence confidence: ◈ high
  supports · supports relationship

  Late Bronze Age International System is a participant, evidential object, or directly involved entity in Loss of the Uluburun Ship.

• relationship Bronze-Metal Exchange Networks — participated in — Loss of the Uluburun Ship
  Evidence confidence: ◈ high
  supports · supports relationship

  Bronze-Metal Exchange Networks is a participant, evidential object, or directly involved entity in Loss of the Uluburun Ship.

• relationship Uluburun Shipwreck Cargo — located in — Eastern Mediterranean
  Evidence confidence: ◈ high
  supports · supports relationship

  Uluburun Shipwreck Cargo is located in or geographically associated with Eastern Mediterranean.

• relationship Uluburun Shipwreck Cargo — participated in — Loss of the Uluburun Ship
  Evidence confidence: ◈ high
  supports · supports relationship

  Uluburun Shipwreck Cargo is a participant, evidential object, or directly involved entity in Loss of the Uluburun Ship.