The Phoenician Mediterranean
Tides of History
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Silver from Iberia could plausibly have begun to come east as early as the 11th century BC, a full century before that ethnically mixed trading settlement at Wevva was founded. Silver has been found in archaeological layers from Phoenicia dating to no later than the middle of the 10th century BC. Sardinia supplied much of the copper that powered the Bronze Age of Europe and a little bit of the eastern Mediterranean Bronze Age as well.
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