The road to Scandinavia's Bronze Age: Trade routes, metal provenance, and mixing

The geographic origins of the metals in Scandinavian mixed-metal artifacts reveal a crucial dependency on British and continental European trading sources during the beginnings of the Nordic Bronze Age, according to a study published in the open-access journal PLOS ONE by Heide W. Nørgaard from Aarhus University, Denmark, and colleagues.British-developed bronze flat-axe from Selchausdal, northwest Zealand (NM B5310, photo: Nørgaard)....[[ This is a content summary only. Visit my we