Trading and Weighing Metals in Bronze Age Western Eurasia

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Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, vol. 118, no. 30, e2110552118

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• claim Late Bronze Age exchange and metrological interoperability created plausible channels for transmitting shortages and political disruption, but the existence of connectivity alon…
  Evidence confidence: ◈ moderate
  supports · supports

  Supports the claim: Late Bronze Age exchange and metrological interoperability created plausible channels for transmitting shortages and political disruption, but the existence of connectivity alone does not prove a system-wide cascade.

• 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.

• 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.

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

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

• property Systemic Network Vulnerability
  supports · supports property definition

  Supports the definition or scholarly use of the property Systemic Network Vulnerability.