Sending Laurion Back to the Future: Bronze Age Silver and the Source of Confusion

Silver-bearing lead ores at Laurion in Attica were considered to have been first exploited with the introduction of coinage sometime around the birth of Classical Greece. However, in the late 20th century this chronology was radically revised earlier, to the Bronze Age, largely supported by lead iso...

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Main Authors: Jonathan R. Wood, Yi-Ting Hsu, Carol Bell
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: University of York 2021-06-01
Series:Internet Archaeology
Subjects:
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Online Access:https://intarch.ac.uk/journal/issue56/9/index.html