
The Bronze Age Collapse
In Our Time
The Mycenaean Trade in the Mediterranean
Mycenaean and Cypriot pottery spread all around the region. We have jars of oil, Canaanite jars moving out from the Levant. And shipwrecks give us a very precise window. There is a shipwreck at Uliburun, around 1300, that sank off the coast of southern Turkey. It carried 10 tons of copper, one ton of tin, which is the precise ratio to make bronze. But it also carried terra-venthe oil, wine, some pottery as well,. Lots of gold and silver scrap, hippo ivory, elephant ivory. Things that would be sent probably to the mycenaeans world for making into these
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